May
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
- Opinion
- ASEAN
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
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
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
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
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
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.
- Updated
- Grant Peck
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.
- Andrew Tillett
Torturous Burmese days for Mallee Resources
The Myanmarese buyer of the ASX-listed miner’s assets has some colourful links.
- Michael Roddan
June 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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 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
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