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Debate Topic

Out of lockdown: Searching for a new normal
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Economic diplomacy: Diversification dilemmas

Greg Earl

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Economic diplomacy: Positive globalism and American exceptionalism

Greg Earl

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Climate change makes Covid-19 politics look easy

Matt McDonald

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India-Australia strategic partnership: Leveraging aerospace capacity

M Matheswaran

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Designing a “built environment” for the pandemic age

Daniel Flitton

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In an Olympic-sized challenge, Japan’s golden chance could go begging

André Leslie

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Covid contest in Indian Ocean region: India, China jostle for top spot

David Brewster

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Muddled messages as Britain seeks to stay alert

Lawrence Freedman
Debate Topic

Developing resistance: Emergent nations and Covid-19
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Southeast Asian democracies in declining health amid Covid-19

Melissa Crouch

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Cambodia: Caught in the middle

Kimkong Heng

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Aiding the Pacific during Covid – a stock-take and further steps

Alexandre Dayant , Roland Rajah

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Going local: Lessons from Covid response in Indonesia

Puji Pujiono , Jess Lees , Jesse McCommon

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COVIDcast: Dame Meg Taylor on keeping Pacific Islands safe

Jonathan Pryke , Dame Meg Taylor

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A cry for help as Covid‑19 sweeps Latin America and hunger bites

Antonio Castillo

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COVIDcast Episode 12: Pandemic, emerging markets, and US dollar

Roland Rajah , Brad Setser

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Now is the right time to bring Fiji into trans-Pacific bubble talks

Samantha Cook

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Covid-19: The need to aid Asia to open up

Haider A. Khan , Peter McCawley

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PNG and Covid-19: The costs of economic stress

Catherine Wilson

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Constitutional questions over Solomon Islands’ coronavirus crackdown

Joseph D. Foukona

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COVIDcast Episode 11: Dave Sharma MP on COVID-19 and Pacific relations

Jonathan Pryke , Dave Sharma

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To act, or not? Al-Shabaab’s response to a Covid-19 crisis in Somalia

Stephanie Carver , Samantha Kruber

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The health challenge in PNG is far greater than Covid-19 alone

Ishani Kaluthotage

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Creating a Pacific bubble

Joe Rafalowicz

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Philippines: Bangsamoro, between conflict and Covid-19

Georgi Engelbrecht

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Winds of change: Rethinking disaster relief after Cyclone Harold

Meg Keen , David Sanderson

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The danger of disease in the world’s largest refugee camp

Eleanor Gordon , Katrina Lee-Koo

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The phony war ends: PNG’s coronavirus challenge takes shape

Shane McLeod

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Australia needs a comprehensive plan for Covid-19 in the Pacific

Pat Conroy

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How much is too much? Covid loans for the Pacific

Alexandre Dayant , Roland Rajah

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A decisive month for Covid-19 in Myanmar – and region beyond

Elliot Brennan

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Covid-19 and Pacific labour

Murray Ackman , Tautalaaso Taulealo

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As Africa prepares to fight Covid-19, China steps up

Cornelia Tremann

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Why South Asia may come out of Covid-19 crisis better than many expect

David Brewster

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Cry the beloved world

Stephen Howes

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Coronavirus in conflict: The fight has hardly begun

Eleanor Gordon , Florence Carrot

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Covid-19: Refugees at risk

Max Walden

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A global call to arms

Dominic Meagher

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Timor-Leste: The consequences of Covid-19

Guteriano Neves

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Double disaster: Emergency preparedness in the era of Covid-19

Jess Lees

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Australia can’t let foreign aid fall victim to Covid-19

Philip Citowicki

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Philippines: Covid-19 will devastate the poor

Sheila Coronel
Debate Topic

Flattening the curve: A pandemic for the information age
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China toys with a new propaganda technique: Irony

Weixiang Wang , Oana Burcu

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India’s Covid-19 tracing app: Power in the right hands?

Aarti Betigeri

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Covid-19 chaos creates fertile ground for cyberattacks

Gordon Kang

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Covid-19 and the acceleration of state surveillance

Muhammad Faizal Abdul Rahman

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Information warfare in the theatre of Covid-19

Damien Spry

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Back to the future: Keeping Australian air lines of communication open

David Brewster

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Strength in numbers: The benefit from global efforts to halt the virus

Nicholas Bosworth , Hervé Lemahieu

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If this is war, that Zoom call is part of the battle

Jason Israel

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What price privacy? Contact tracing apps to combat Covid

Xueyin Zha

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The danger meme: Countering visual disinformation in Asia’s politics

Jennifer Yang Hui

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Doom surfing and fact checkers prosper in Covid-19 infodemic

Alexandra Wake

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Disinformation and coronavirus

Natasha Kassam

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Don’t succumb to complacency again: Beating Covid-19 will take a team

Dominic Meagher

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Fighting Covid-19: Everyone needs to be their own Sherlock Holmes

Dominic Meagher