Media and op-eds

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‘Girt by Sea: Finding security in Australia’s maritime domains’, Lowy Institute, 31 July 2024, https://resources.lowyinstitute.org/docs/lowy-institute-event-girt-by-sea-finding-security-in-australias-maritime-domains

‘Girt by Sea - Rebecca Strating and Joanne Wallis in conversation’, The Readings Podcast, 11 July 2024, https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/rebecca-strating-joanne-wallis-in-conversation/id1141259684?i=1000661848037

‘Book event: Girt by Sea’, Center for Strategic & International Studies, 10 July 2024, https://www.csis.org/events/book-event-girt-sea-rebecca-strating-and-joanne-wallis

‘Sea Control 521 - Girt by Sea’, Sea Control Podcast, Center for International Maritime Security, 27 June 2024, https://cimsec.org/category/podcast-2/

‘A progressive Australian foreign policy?’, Australia in the World podcast, 9 June 2024, https://australiaintheworld.podbean.com/e/ep-131-a-progressive-australian-foreign-policy/

‘Girt by Sea - Australia’s maritime security’, Big Ideas, ABC Radio, 20 May 2024, https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas/girt-by-sea-australia-s-maritime-security/103752058

Interview on ABC Brisbane Drive, ABC Brisbane, 7 May 2024, https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/brisbane-drive/brisbane-drive/103793492

‘Girt by Sea: can Australia reduce its dependence on US security?’, ABC Saturday Extra, 4 May 2024, https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/saturdayextra/girt-by-sea/103803578

‘Increasing the effectiveness of Australia’s defence diplomacy in the Pacific Islands as a tool of statecraft’, The Strategist, 31 January 2024 [with Quentin Hanich and Michael Rose], https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/wallis/

‘How are global powers engaging with the Pacific? And who is most effective? These 5 maps provide a glimpse’, The Conversation, 6 November 2023 [with Henrietta McNeill, Michael Rose, and Alan Tidwell], https://theconversation.com/how-are-global-powers-engaging-with-the-pacific-and-who-is-most-effective-these-5-maps-provide-a-glimpse-213768

‘Australia should offer our ‘Pacific family’ access rather than simply reacting to China’, The Conversation, 1 August 2023, https://theconversation.com/australia-should-offer-our-pacific-family-access-rather-than-simply-reacting-to-china-210460

Quoted in: Randy Mulyanto, ‘Why are world leaders racing to the Pacific Islands?’, Al Jazeera, 10 August 2023, https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/8/10/why-are-world-leaders-racing-to-the-pacific-islands.

‘Why did South Korea invite Pacific leaders to a summit, and why did they go?’ The Strategist, 31 May 2023 [with Jiye Kim], https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/why-did-south-korea-invite-pacific-leaders-to-a-summit-and-why-did-they-go/ [quoted in ‘S Korea, Pacific Islands boost ties after first-ever summit’, Al Jazeera, 31 May 2023, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/31/s-korea-pacific-islands-to-boost-ties-after-first-ever-summit]

‘Modi in Papua New Guinea: leader of the global south or Quad partner?’ The Stategist, 24 May 2023 [with Premesha Saha], https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/modi-in-papua-new-guinea-leader-of-the-global-south-or-quad-partner/

‘Smooth sailing or choppy waters for Australia, NZ and the US in the Pacific?’, The Strategist, 22 May 2023 [with Anna Powles], https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/smooth-sailing-or-choppy-waters-for-australia-nz-and-the-us-in-the-pacific/

‘Remembering Australia’s “other” alliance’, The Interpreter, 18 May 2023 [with Anna Powles], https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/remembering-australia-s-other-alliance

‘Australia’s future security: Where the Defence Strategic Review falls short’, The Interpreter, 13 May 2023 [with Bec Strating], https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/australia-s-future-security-where-defence-strategic-review-falls-short

‘Penny Wong said this week national power comes from ‘our people’. Are we ignoring our most vital resource?’, The Conversation, 18 April 2023 [with Gordon Peake'], https://theconversation.com/penny-wong-said-this-week-national-power-comes-from-our-people-are-we-ignoring-this-most-vital-resource-203145

‘Scholarships as a Tool of Statecraft’, Australian Outlook, 4 April 2023 [with Priestley Habru], https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/scholarships-as-a-tool-of-statecraft/

‘When disaster strikes, Australia, New Zealand and the US should partner with, not for, the Pacific’, The Strategist, 8 March 2023 [with Anna Powles and Henrietta McNeill], https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/when-disaster-strikes-australia-new-zealand-and-the-us-should-partner-with-not-for-the-pacific/

‘Weaving webs of statecraft in the Pacific Islands’, The Interpreter, 19 January 2023 [with Henrietta McNeill, Alan Tidwell, and Czes Tubilewicz], https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/weaving-webs-statecraft-pacific-islands

‘US interest in the Pacific Islands tested at Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders’, 9DashLine, 12 September 2022 [with Henrietta McNeill], https://www.9dashline.com/article/us-interest-in-the-pacific-islands-tested-at-pacific-islands-conference-of-leaders

‘A new office of Southeast Asia: what lessons can be taken from the Office of the Pacific’, The Intel, 8 September 2022, https://www.devintelligencelab.com/intel/08september2022.

‘Can the Pacific Islands Forum learn anything from ASEAN?’, East Asia Forum, 14 August 2022 [with Anna Powles], https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2022/08/14/can-the-pacific-islands-forum-learn-anything-from-asean/

‘The future of Australian diplomacy in the Pacific’, National Security Podcast, 11 August 2022 [with Ian Kemish], https://play.acast.com/s/the-national-security-podcast/the-future-of-australian-diplomacy-in-the-pacific.

‘Key to Pacific relationship is education: ours, not theirs’, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 August 2022 [with Ian Kemish], https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/key-to-pacific-relationship-is-education-ours-not-theirs-20220809-p5b8h9.html?btis.

‘Australia must listen to Pacific countries on defence issues’, The Canberra Times, 23 July 2022 [with Gordon Peake], https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7830280/do-pacific-defence-forces-really-need-yet-another-aussie-training-school/

‘Australia and New Zealand have a golden opportunity to build stronger ties in the Pacific - but will they take it?’ The Conversation, 20 July 2022 [with Anna Powles and Soli Middleby], https://theconversation.com/australia-and-new-zealand-have-a-golden-opportunity-to-build-stronger-ties-in-the-pacific-but-will-they-take-it-186924

‘The US in the Pacific: delivering on commitments or déjà vu?’, The Strategist, 15 July 2022 [with Anna Powles], https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-us-in-the-pacific-delivering-on-commitments-or-deja-vu/.

‘Expanded, empowered PIF could lock in Pacific security’, 360info, 11 July 2022 [with Anna Powles], https://360info.org/expanded-empowered-pif-could-lock-in-pacific-security/ [also ‘An expanded, empowered Pacific Islands Forum could lock in Pacific security’, RNZ, 19 July 2022, https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/471230/an-expanded-empowered-pacific-islands-forum-could-lock-in-pacific-security]. 

‘Australia’s Pacific Policy Under the ALP: Heading in the Right Direction?’, Australian Outlook, 7 July 2022 [with Maima Koro], https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/australias-pacific-policy-under-the-alp-heading-in-the-right-direction/

‘Engaging with the Pacific: the legal angle’, Lowy Interpreter, 5 July 2022 [with Sarah McCosker and Melissa Conley-Tyler], https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/engaging-pacific-legal-angle.

‘Amplifying narratives about the ‘China threat’ in the Pacific may help China achieve its broader aims’, The Conversation, 27 May 2022 [with Maima Koro], https://theconversation.com/amplifying-narratives-about-the-china-threat-in-the-pacific-may-help-china-achieve-its-broader-aims-183917 (see also: The Canberra Times, 28 May 2022, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7756198/amplifying-narratives-about-the-china-threat-in-the-pacific-may-help-china-achieve-its-broader-aims/).

‘An Albanese-Ardern alliance in the Pacific: A step forward?’, The Strategist, 25 May 2022 [with Anna Powles], https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/an-albanese-ardern-alliance-in-the-pacific-a-step-forward/

‘Framing China in the Pacific Islands’, Australian Outlook, 21 April 2022 [with Angus Ireland, Isabel Robinson, and Alicia Turner'], https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/framing-china-in-the-pacific-islands/ (see also: Asialink Insight: https://asialink.unimelb.edu.au/insights/framing-china-in-the-pacific-islands)

‘Alarm over China-Solomon Islands deal brushes over limits of our ‘influence’ in Pacific’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 April [with Czes Tubilewicz], https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/alarm-over-china-solomon-islands-deal-brushes-over-limits-of-our-influence-in-pacific-20220420-p5aeta.html

‘It’s time to talk to, not at, the Pacific’, The Strategist, 28 March 2022 [with Anna Powles], https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/its-time-to-talk-to-not-at-the-pacific/

‘Saying China ‘bought’ a military base in the Solomons is simplistic and shows how little Australia understands power in the Pacific’, The Conversation, 25 March 2022 [with Czes Tubilewicz], https://theconversation.com/saying-china-bought-a-military-base-in-the-solomons-is-simplistic-and-shows-how-little-australia-understands-power-in-the-pacific-180020 (also: ABC News, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-25/draft-security-agreement-china-solomon-islands-a-wake-up-call/100940598?s=09 and The Canberra Times, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7674513/saying-china-bought-a-military-base-in-the-solomons-is-simplistic-and-shows-how-little-australia-understands-power-in-the-pacific/?src=rss)

‘Joining the “Barty party” in foreign and defence policy’, The Interpreter, 1 February 2022 [with Bec Strating], https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/joining-barty-party-foreign-and-defence-policy

‘Tongan disaster highlights lack of coordination in regional response’, The Strategist, 28 January 2022 [with Henrietta McNeill and Anna Powles], https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/tongan-disaster-highlights-lack-of-coordination-in-regional-response/

‘The Big Picture: AUKUS’, Asia Media Centre “Asia Insight”, 24 December 2021 [with Rob Ayson], https://www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/podcasts/amc-podcast/

‘AUKUS and Australia’s relations in the Pacific’, East Asia Forum, 4 November 2021 [with Soli Middleby and Anna Powles], https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/11/04/aukus-and-australias-relations-in-the-pacific/

‘Stepping-Up With Australia’s “Pacific Family”’, Australian Outlook, 3 November 2021, https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/stepping-up-with-australias-pacific-family/

‘Securing Pacific maritime boundaries’, ABC Pacific Beat, 29 October 2021, https://www.abc.net.au/radio-australia/programs/pacificbeat/pacific-beat/13600640

‘AUKUS adds ambiguity to the Australia-New Zealand alliance’, The Strategist, 11 October 2021 [with Soli Middleby and Anna Powles], https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/aukus-adds-ambiguity-to-the-australia-new-zealand-alliance/

‘How the Pacific might get caught up in the latest US-China-Taiwan stoush’, ABC Pacific Beat, 5 October 2021, https://www.abc.net.au/radio-australia/programs/pacificbeat/how-the-pacific-might-get-caught-up-in-us-china-taiwan-stoush/13570044

‘Pushing the limits of Australia’s strategic imagination in the Pacific Islands’, 9DashLine, 6 September 2021, https://www.9dashline.com/article/pushing-the-limits-of-australias-strategic-imagination-in-the-pacific-islands

‘Shouldering their fair share? The ANZUS allies in the Pacific Islands’ [with Anna Powles], The Interpreter, 23 July 2021, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/shouldering-their-fair-share-anzus-allies-pacific-islands

Interview on ‘Strategic competition in the Pacific’, Policy, Guns & Money: The ASPI Podcast, 2 July 2021, https://soundcloud.com/user-415599049/strategic-competition-in-the-pacific-prc-deterrence-australias-climate-policy

‘The risks of escalating strategic competition in the Pacific Islands’, The Interpreter, 21 June 2021, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/risks-escalating-strategic-competition-pacific-islands

‘Mapping Pacific regional security cooperation’ [with Henrietta McNeill, Anna Powles and James Batley'], Policy Forum, 10 June 2021, https://www.policyforum.net/mapping-pacific-regional-security-cooperation/

‘Resolving Samoa’s democratic crisis’ [with Henrietta McNeill], East Asia Forum, 1 June 2021, https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/06/01/resolving-samoas-democratic-crisis/

‘For Australia’s foreign affairs, defence and trade, the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic are not primarily about health’, interview with Senator David Fawcett, 29 March 2021, https://www.adelaide.edu.au/stretton/news/list/2021/04/09/for-australias-foreign-affairs-defence-and-trade-the-lessons-of-the-covid-19

‘What Can COVID-19 Tell Us About Pacific Resilience?’ [with Henrietta McNeill], Australian Outlook, 4 December 2020, https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/what-can-covid-19-tell-us-about-pacific-resilience/

‘Kiwis and hawks: Is New Zealand edging closer to Australia on China?’ [with Anna Powles], The Interpreter, 14 October 2020, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/kiwis-hawks-nz-edging-closer-australia-on-china

‘China and the geopolitics of the Pacific Islands', The Strategist, 28 June 2019, https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/china-and-the-geopolitics-of-the-pacific-islands/ 

'Australia's one step forward, two steps back in the Pacific', East Asia Forum, 21 June 2019, https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2019/06/21/australias-one-step-forward-two-steps-back-in-the-pacific/

'Competing Pacific narratives', East Asia Forum, 20 January 2019, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2019/01/20/competing-pacific-narratives/

'Chinese whispers and Pacific agency' [with Anna Powles and Tess Newton Cain], The Interpreter, 22 October 2018, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/chinese-whispers-and-pacific-agency

'Australia steps up its Pacific pivot', East Asia Forum, 20 October 2018, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/10/20/australia-steps-up-its-pacific-pivot/ 

'Australia at the Pacific Islands Forum: getting our priorities right', The Strategist, 6 September 2018, https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-at-the-pacific-islands-forum-getting-our-priorities-right/

'Chinese whispers and the geopolitics of the Pacific Islands' [with Anna Powles], AsiaGlobal Online, 6 September 2018, https://www.asiaglobalonline.hku.hk/china-pacific-islands-australia-new-zealand-geopolitics/

'Australia needs to reset its Pacific policy', East Asia Forum, 1 June 2018, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/06/01/australia-needs-to-reset-its-pacific-policy/. Republished on Open Forum, 5 June 2018, http://www.openforum.com.au/australia-needs-to-reset-its-pacific-policy/

'Is China changing the 'rules' in the Pacific Islands?', The Strategist, 11 April 2018, https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/china-changing-rules-pacific-islands/. Republished as 'China makes its play for the Pacific', Open Forum, 12 April 2018, http://www.openforum.com.au/china-makes-its-play-for-the-pacific/

'Australia's security', Big Ideas, ABC Radio National, 7 February 2018, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/australian-security/9396462

'What role can the Pacific Islands play in strengthening Australia's security?', Australian Outlook, 17 October 2017, http://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/pacific-islands-play-australia-security/

'Do Australia's interests match its influence in the Pacific Islands?', The Strategist, 27 September 2017, https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/do-australias-interests-match-its-influence-in-the-pacific-islands/ 

'Pacific Power', Between the Lines, ABC Radio National, 27 July 2017, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/betweenthelines/pacific-power/8749018

'Australia needs to view itself "more as a partner, less as a power" in the Pacific', Pacific Beat, ABC Radio Australia, 21 July 2017, http://www.abc.net.au/news/programs/pacific-beat/2017-07-21/australia-needs-to-view-itself-more-as-a-partner,/8732260

'Australia's influence declining in the region', Pacific Beat, ABC Radio Australia, 19 July 2017, http://www.abc.net.au/news/programs/pacific-beat/2017-07-19/australias-influence-declining-in-the-region/8724586

'Crowded and complex: the changing geopolitics of the South Pacific', The Strategist, 24 April 2017, https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/crowded-complex-changing-geopolitics-south-pacific/

'Hollow hegemon: Australia's declining influence in the Pacific', East Asia Forum, 21 September 2016, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/09/21/hollow-hegemon-australias-declining-role-in-the-pacific/. Republished on Open Forum, 15 April 2018, http://www.openforum.com.au/hollow-hegemon-australias-declining-influence-in-the-pacific/  

'Money, manipulation and misunderstanding on Manus Island', The Canberra Times, 5 July 2016, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/money-manipulation-and-misunderstanding-on-manus-island-20160701-gpwcir.html

'Australia's anxieties after the 'Age of Intervention', Policy Forum, 10 December 2015, http://www.policyforum.net/australias-anxieties-after-the-age-of-intervention/#sthash.4V7jX46z.uxfs&st_refDomain=t.co&st_refQuery=/aq9o3vy1F6 

'What role can constitution making play in state building?', fifteen eightyfour, 13 January 2015, http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2015/01/what-role-can-constitution-making-play-in-state-building/

'Is Australia's influence over Papua New Guinea declining?', The Strategist, 20 October 2014, http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/is-australias-influence-over-papua-new-guinea-declining/

'The dangers of development NGOs sacrificing accuracy for advocay', DevPolicy, 3 October 2014, http://devpolicy.org/the-dangers-of-development-ngos-sacrificing-accuracy-for-advocacy-20141003/

‘Australia’s changing strategic interests in the South Pacific’, China Policy Institute Blog, 5 February 2014, https://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/chinapolicyinstitute/2014/02/05/australias-changing-strategic-interests-in-the-south-pacific/

'Widening gulf a peril for the two East Timors', Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times, 28 November 2013, http://www.smh.com.au/comment/widening-gulf-a-peril-for-the-two-east-timors-20131127-2ya0q.htm

'Beware of berating Bougainvilleans', The Strategist, 20 November 2013, http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/reader-response-beware-of-berating-bougainvilleans/

‘The difficulties of development in Timor-Leste', DevPolicy Blog, 27 November 2013, http://devpolicy.org/the-difficulties-of-development-in-timor-leste-20131127/

‘Use White Paper to build bridges over the South Pacific’, Sydney Morning Herald and Canberra Times, 8 May 2013http://www.smh.com.au/comment/use-white-paper-to-build-bridges-over-south-pacific-20130507-2j5z4.html

'Neighbourhood Watch', SBS News, 3 May 2013http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1762328/Comment-Neighbourhood-watch

'The Pacific: from 'arc of instability' to 'arc of opportunity?', The Strategist, 10 December 2012, http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-pacific-from-arc-of-instability-to-arc-of-opportunity/

'The South Pacific: from 'arc of instability' to 'arc of opportunity'?, December 2012, http://www.anu.edu.au/vision/videos/7881/

'The South Pacific: Microcosm of Future US-China competition?', e-IR, 19 September 2012 ,http://www.e-ir.info/2012/09/19/the-south-pacific-microcosm-of-future-us-china-competition/

'Q&Asia: Who Will Lead the Asian Century?', ABC TV, 3 September 2012, http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2012/09/03/3579616.htm

'Asia Pacific Week: panel debate Q and Asia', ABC Radio National, 30 August 2012, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/anu-qand-asia/4112560

'The United States and China in the South Pacific and beyond'¸ East Asia Forum, 6 September 2012, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2012/09/06/the-united-states-and-china-in-the-south-pacific-and-beyond/

'The dragon in our backyard: the strategic consequences of China's increased presence in the South Pacific', The Strategist, 30 August 2012, http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-dragon-in-our-backyard-the-strategic-consequences-of-chinas-increased-presence-in-the-south-pacific/ 

'China's South Pacific Diplomacy', The Diplomat, 30 August 2012, http://thediplomat.com/china-power/chinas-south-pacific-diplomacy/

'Is Australia still threatened by weak South Pacific states?', The Strategist, 20 August 2012, http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/is-australia-still-threatened-by-weak-south-pacific-states/

'Fault lines: democracy and unity in Timor-Leste' The DrumABC, 18 July 2012, http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4138252.html