Young Australians in International Affairs

David Zhang | Climate & Environment Fellow Image sourced from Ernests Vaga via Unsplash In 2019, law students at the University of the South Pacific in Vanuatu set out to take climate change to the world’s principal court, a campaign the government of Vanuatu adopted and championed. Six years later, their efforts culimated and succeeded. In July 2025, the International Court...

Theekshana Manujaya Image sourced from Enguerrand Photography via Unsplash After more than one hundred days of the Iran-US war, the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (Memorandum) between the United States and Iran has done what diplomacy is supposed to do: it stopped the shooting, reopened the Strait of Hormuz, and bought sixty days for negotiators to sort out everything tha...

Annabel Simpson | Indo-Pacific Fellow Image sourced from Jimmy Liao via Pexels In recent years, people have come to associate Taiwan with one of two things: bubble tea and military tensions. For years, media coverage has focused on the Taiwan Strait as a military flashpoint and the threats to Taiwan’s de facto sovereignty. Yet there is more to Taiwan than its relationship with C...

Mia Ruddock | United States Fellow Image sourced from Fauzan Saari via Unsplash In 2025, global tourism reached a record high for the post-pandemic era, with over 1.5 billion tourists traveling internationally. Yet, despite this boom, international tourism to the United States (US) continues to decline steadily. According to the World Tourism Barometer, tourism to the US decreas...

Numan Mousa | Middle East Fellow Image sourced from Pexels My mother has been glued to Turkish dramas for years. I never understood it until one evening I sat down and did not get up. Three episodes later, she was explaining Ottoman palace politics as if I had missed everything. The week after, we were browsing Turkish brands, debating the food, and booking a trip to Istanbul. T...