Monash University’s Paul Strangio explains why the most perilous peacetime challenge Australia has faced in living memory will make Scott Morrison a significant Australian prime minister. One of Australia’s preeminent historians, Stuart Macintyre, once observed of John Curtin, the Labor Party leader revered for navigating this nation through the dangers of the second world war, that he would have made …

Haiqing Yu, RMIT University and Michael Keane, Curtin University China has gradually emerged out of its shadow of despair as the epicentre where the coronavirus pandemic started. Now, there is face saving required – as well as agenda-setting in the global power play. China played a decisive role in combating the invisible enemy. Chinese officials and academics are taking this …

Rusli Abdulah, Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (INDEF) and Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat, Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) After reducing its number of new locally acquired COVID-19 cases to zero, China must help other affected countries recover economically. This is the only way it can ensure its own economic recovery. Over 40 economists, based both in and outside mainland China, …