May 2024
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.
September 2023
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.
June 2023
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.
January 2023
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.
November 2022
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.
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.
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.
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.
September 2022
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.
July 2022
‘They’re killing every day’: Wong weighs sanctions on Myanmar junta
The Foreign Minister denounced the execution of four pro-democracy activists as appalling.
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.
January 2022
‘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.
January 2022
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.
December 2021
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.
June 2021
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.
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.
April 2021
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.
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.
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.
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.