Editor’s Note: A version of this article was originally published by The Interpreter, which is published by the Lowy Institute, an independent, nonpartisan think tank based in Sydney. War on the Rocks ...

At the far northern tip of Australia is one of the country’s least-visited and least-understood regions. But that’s about to change, thanks to local Indigenous entrepreneurs like Fraser Nai. The ...

The treacherous sandbars and reefs along Australia’s western coast have caused the demise of many ships. The first European ship known to have wrecked there, Batavia, did so in 1629. Sailors searching ...

FROM AUSTRALIA’S perspective the Pacific’s island states have sat for decades in its backyard. Latterly a gate-crasher has stomped in. China has shaken Australian assumptions in the Pacific. Australia ...

More than 8,000 continental islands sit just off the coast of Australia, many of them uninhabited and unspoiled. For thousands of species, these patches of habitat offer refuge from the threats they ...