Kira Todd | Image sourced from Cabinet Public Affairs Office via Wikimedia Commons . At the end of November, the G20 Summit took place in South Africa. The G20 is a widely known forum, where the world’s 20 largest economies meet to coordinate economic policies and address shared global challenges. What is less known is that there are 13 official engagement groups occurring alongside the main G20 summit. Various civil society and interest groups from member states convene at their own...

Rebecca Kuiters | United States Fellow Image sourced from Rod Waddington via Flickr . Since the early 2000s, networks of Christian nationalist organisations based in the United States (US) have strategically exported “family values” campaigns to the Global South. These efforts–targeting abortion access, LGBTQ+ rights and secular education, alongside other areas–are not isolated moral crusades. Rather, they represent a coordinated form of recolonisation.   International bodies and human...

Zachary Hall | Australian Foreign Policy Fellow Image sourced from Gobierno de Chile via Wikimedia Commons. Australia historically prided itself on being a middle power, punching above its weight by building bridges. From   Bob Hawke’s vision for APEC  to   sanctions against apartheid South Africa , Australia’s foreign policy posture used to mix great power alliances with strong emphasis on multilateralism and regional outreach. Today, Australia’s tight embrace of AUKUS and United States...