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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop of Australia addresses the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Has Julie Bishop taken on an impossible task?

The military is losing ground in Myanmar. What follows could be a failed state – and Australia’s former foreign minister will be right in the thick of it.

  • Emma Connors

September 2023

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Biden’s summit no-show adds to ASEAN’s relevance crisis

The absence of the US president, who typically attends, magnifies the already sombre backdrop of the 10-state bloc’s traditional show of unity and group handshakes.

  • Niniek Karmini and Edna Tarigan

June 2023

“She wasn’t one of those female leaders who drone on about how girls are better than boys”: Giorgia Meloni during her first cabinet meeting last October.

Meeting Giorgia Meloni turned out to be quite a surprise

It’s perilously hard to make political predictions but as things stand the new Italian prime minister has the potential to become the European Union’s most significant leader.

  • Alexander Downer

January 2023

Myanmar’s military.

Local resistance, not foreigners, key to Myanmar’s future

Longstanding hesitation about entanglement in a wider war will discourage foreign players from taking more aggressive, interventionist approaches.

  • Nicholas Farrelly

November 2022

Sean Turnell and his wife, Ha Vu, before his imprisonment in February 2021.

Turnell arrives home, says he still loves people of Myanmar

Australian economist Sean Turnell has landed in Melbourne after spending almost two years in a Myanmar jail, praising the efforts of those who helped free him.

  • Phillip Coorey, Emma Connors and AAP
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Sean Turnell and wife Ha Vu before his imprisonment in February 2021.

Detained Australian economist Sean Turnell released from Myanmar jail

Friends and family of Sean Turnell are waiting anxiously for the economist to arrive in Australia after his release from a Myanmar jail as part of an amnesty by the ruling military junta.

  • Emma Connors

October 2022

ASEAN ministers in talks over Myanmar crisis

Myanmar’s generals have been barred from high-level ASEAN meetings since last year, when the army ousted Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government.

  • Stanley Widianto
Social media companies are often exploited to spread misinformation.

Inside a Myanmar Coup botnet that blasted US Army Facebook

In a sign that Russian bot operators were training for operations elsewhere, the US Army Facebook page was bombarded by comments calling for US support in Myanmar.

  • Max Mason

September 2022

Detained Australian economist Sean Turnell with his wife Ha Vu.

Australian economist jailed for three years in Myanmar

A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced Sean Turnell to three years in prison for violating an official secrets law.

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  • Grant Peck

July 2022

Phyo Zeya Thaw, pictured with Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyitaw in 2015.

‘They’re killing every day’: Wong weighs sanctions on Myanmar junta

The Foreign Minister denounced the execution of four pro-democracy activists as appalling.

  • Andrew Tillett
Major General Zaw Min Tun: “They killed at least 50 people.”

Myanmar junta executes four political opponents

The executions, detailed in the state-run Mirror Daily newspaper, were carried out despite worldwide pleas for clemency for the four political prisoners.

  • David Rising

January 2022

Myanmar’s democratically elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was overthrown on February 1 last year.

‘Authoritarian backsliding’: Labor attacks PM over Myanmar inaction

Labor says the Morrison government has been too slow to take action against coup ringleaders despite other countries hitting them with sanctions.

  • Andrew Tillett

January 2022

Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to another four years in prison.

Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to another four years in prison

Monday’s guilty verdict on three counts comes on top of her December 5 conviction on charges of inciting public unrest and a separate count of breaching COVID-19 protocols.

  • Richard C. Paddock

December 2021

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Ousted leader Suu Kyi sentenced to four years in prison

The sentencing was the first in a series of cases in which the 76-year-old Nobel laureate is being prosecuted since the army seized power on February 1.

  • Grant Peck

June 2021

The three-finger salute, a symbol of resistance in south-east Asia, and a poster of jailed leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Australian MPs demand sanctions against Myanmar coup leaders

A cross-party committee also recommends offering permanent residency to Burmese living in Australia because of the unrest in their homeland.

  • Andrew Tillett
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Myanmar’s deposed Leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Myanmar anti-junta militia vow to take on army in a major city

A group claiming to be Mandalay’s new People’s Defence Force says its members responded after the army raided one of its bases.

  • Ed Davies

April 2021

Anti-coup protesters hold a banner that reads “What are these? We are Yangon residents!” as they march during a demonstration on Tuesday.

Border clashes in Myanmar as junta ‘considers’ ASEAN plan

The Karen National Union, Myanmar’s oldest rebel force, said it had captured an army camp on the west bank of the Salween river bordering Thailand.

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  • Matthew Tostevin and Robert Birsel
A protester holds a sign demanding Myanmar’s elected civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi be freed.

Australian officials say Myanmar sanctions might not help

Morrison government officials say the military coup leaders are likely impervious to international pressure, and responding to overtures from the government-in-exile could backfire.

  • Andrew Tillett and Emma Connors
Military vehicles parade to mark Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar.

Myanmar’s bloodshed reveals a world that has changed, and hasn’t

How the country became primed for a sort of violence, and a sort of dictatorship, that had grown rare.

  • Max Fisher
Young demonstrators flash the three-fingered symbol of resistance during an anti-coup mask strike in Yangon at the weekend. Pressure is mounting on companies with investments in the strife-torn country.

Korean steelmaker Posco urged to cut ties with Myanmar’s junta

Dutch pension fund APG said it was among a group of investors worried their holdings in Seoul-listed Posco would undermine responsible investing commitments after Myanmar’s military overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in a coup in February.

  • Edward White and John Reed

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