By Michael Clarke, Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The move is designed to demonstrate to the Australian public, the Chinese leadership, and Australia's allies that Canberra is holding firm in its 'push back' against Beijing.
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By Gemma Ware, Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast
Wale Fatade, Commissioning Editor: Nigeria
In this episode of
The Conversation Weekly, insurgent groups in northern Nigeria continue to kidnap schoolchildren as the government struggles to protect communities against militants such as Boko Haram. And we speak to a researcher who has interviewed Kenyan women about why they joined the militant Islamist group Al-Shabaab.