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Australia and Southeast Asia: Australia needs a new plan 

  • Honorary Professorial Fellow Richard Robison,

Reform of Australia’s relations with Southeast Asia requires fundamental change in the political interests driving the Southeast Asian agenda within Australia.

COVID-19 mental health challenges and responses in Hong Kong

  • Professor Paul Yip,

Mental health problems caused by COVID-19 public health measures have largely been overlooked by the Hong Kong Administration.

INTERVIEW: From a public health crisis to a ‘police state’: China during and beyond COVID-19

  • Murong Xuecun,

The communist government is taking full advantage of the pandemic to further increase its power.

Human mobility in small island communities in pandemic times: Insights from Sangihe, Indonesia

  • Naimah Lutfi Abdullah Talib,

For Islanders, travelling is a way of exercising their social, political, and economic rights but this has been difficult during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The socio-environmental challenges for China’s palm oil business in Indonesia

  • Dr Xiao Tan & Dr Ardhitya Eduard Yeremia,

Indonesia’s palm oil production is highly contentious, especially in the context of Chinese companies operating in Indonesia.

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