Global Outlook

How China and India address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have a significant impact on the planet's future, given their growing economic and demographic weight.

There is no doubt that the women, peace and security agenda has had a positive impact. Yet according to a UN Women survey in early 2025, global cuts to foreign aid budgets make it harder for women to make these vital contributions to peace and security.

The Indian Ocean Region is one of the fastest-warming oceans in the world, heating at an unprecedented rate, and is projected to experience near-permanent marine heatwave conditions in the coming decades, with dire consequences.

In 2025, a startling spectacle emerges: the nation that proclaimed itself democracy's global arbiter now displays the very symptoms of authoritarianism it once denounced.

Pyongyang sends mixed signals: It is open to talks – under the condition that the US withdraws its demands to denuclearize

In Australia, as elsewhere, legitimate concerns about housing and economic fairness can be, and increasingly are exploited by anti-democratic actors who frame migration not as a policy issue but as a cultural threat.