by Richard Stone Recent coverage about the diplomatic significance of President Biden not attending the ASEAN summit has tended to concentrate upon information of questionable relevance while ignoring the significance of related matters. The growing significance of ASEAN as a regional trade body in the most dynamic sector of the global economy and the strategic nature of some member countries, …

Brief Speech by Shirley Winton * at a Melbourne rally outside the meeting of QUAD members on 10 February. This was a quickly organised small but lively snap rally protesting outside the Quad meeting led by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and foreign ministers from India, Japan and Australia.  As Blinken and other foreign ministers arrived in bullet proof …

Talk by Dave Sweeney, Australian Conservation Council, Nuclear Free Campaigner, at the 10th February snap protest rally outside QUAD meeting in Melbourne – No Quad, No War My name is Dave Sweeney and I work on nuclear issues with ACF and was one of the co-founders of ICAN – the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. This is a very …