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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

July 2023

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Australia’s delicate dance with ASEAN

The government has made ASEAN centrality the guiding star of its foreign policy. But ASEAN itself is struggling to maintain the unity required in a challenging regional environment.

  • James Curran

June 2023

Tom Andrews, the U.N. special rapporteur

UN attacks ASEAN for validating murderous Myanmar junta

ASEAN is working with military officials, which legitimises the ruling junta and ultimately increases the Myanmar people’s “horrific” suffering.

  • Emma Connors

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
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
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October 2022

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
The Bawdwin project was once run by Herbert Hoover, who went on to become US president.

Torturous Burmese days for Mallee Resources

The Myanmarese buyer of the ASX-listed miner’s assets has some colourful links.

  • Michael Roddan

June 2022

Senator Penny Wong in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.

Penny Wong: Australians right to be worried about China

Most Australians believe China is very, or somewhat, likely to become a military threat to Australia in the next 20 years.

  • Emma Connors

April 2022

Bawdwin, the Myanmar Metals silver, lead and zinc project in the Shan State of Myanmar.

Aussie miner fleeing Myanmar hits currency snag

Mallee Resources is attempting to repatriate $16 million out of Myanmar, proceeds that ANZ refused to deal with.

  • Michael Roddan

March 2022

The Bawdwin project was once run by Herbert Hoover, who went on to become US President.

ASX miner repatriates $17m from Myanmar after ANZ refused transfer

ANZ refused to service Mallee Resources after it sold its Myanmar silver mine back to the country’s shadowy JV partners.

  • Michael Roddan

February 2022

Four children were among the 35 people killed in an attack on Christmas Eve in Kayah state that was blamed on the military.

EU leaves Australia behind with new Myanmar sanctions

By targeting a key oil and gas enterprise, the bloc could succeed in limiting the military’s use of foreign currency.

  • Emma Connors
Soldiers march during the Union Day ceremony in Myanmar on Saturday.

DFAT acts on Future Fund’s Myanmar investments

This week Australia’s Future Fund revealed it no longer had funds in a Chinese company whose subsidiary supplied combat aircraft to the coup leaders.

  • Emma Connors
Anti-coup protesters in March last year prepare to use slingshots against security forces.

A year on from the coup, Myanmar is ‘a complete basket case’

Around 1500 civilians have been killed, Myanmar’s economy is in shreds, and half the population – among those who haven’t fled – lives in extreme poverty.

  • Foreign Policy
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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

Pro-democracy protesters hold a flash mob rally to protest against Myanmar’s military-installed government, at Kyauktada township in Yangon, on December 20.

Woodside to take $295m hit as it exits Myanmar

The withdrawal will result in a $195 million charge in Woodside’s 2021 results and a write-off of about $100 million in exploration costs.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith and Emma Connors
Activists believe oil and gas revenues have helped fund Myanmar’s generals.

TotalEnergies and Chevron exit Myanmar gas projects

The move comes amid a public spat between Cambodia and Malaysia over the appropriate level of engagement their fellow ASEAN members that has returned to military rule.

  • Emma Connors
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

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