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MICHAEL LEACH Mounting crises raise questions about infrastructure spending,the uses of oil wealth and the need for elite consensus. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/timor-leste-s-floods-and-covid-lockdown-aggravate-political-rifts

ALYSSA LENG,  ROLAND RAJAH With parliament suspended and a pandemic-inducedshock, necessary and serious reform seems a long way off. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/malaysias-political-turmoil-has-economic-cost

Michael Shoebridge The big positive from the federal government cancelling Beijing’s two Belt and Road Initiative agreements with the Victorian government is that Australia is getting coherent...

Richard Herr President Joe Biden’s two-day climate change summit, which was timed to coincide with Earth Day in the US and continues tomorrow, is intended to rebuild...

Derrick Tin Counterterrorism medicine, or CTM, is a new medical subspeciality born out of the increasingly devastating and complex terrorist attacks taking place around the...

Rebecca Bellan Move over Citi Bike, there’s a new docked, shared bike service in town — only this one is all electric. Next week, JOCO...

Matthias Helble, ADB and Kwan Ok Lee, NUS As the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates digitisation and a shift to remote work, it has some anticipating a...

Ruji Auethavornpipat, ANU More than 700 people have been killed in Myanmar since the military seized power in February 2021. Security forces have stepped up their offensive...

MS PORTER: Hi, good evening. This is Department – State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Jalina Porter. Thank you so much for joining the call this...