Even at the best of times, most seafarers face extremely difficult working conditions, while contending with geopolitical crises and unpredictable trade cycles.
- Lecturer in Law, Deakin University
Taiwan is particularly vulnerable to a naval blockade, with only four months of emergency food reserves and three months of fuel reserves.
Donald Trump claims China ‘operates’ the Panama Canal. This isn’t quite right, but China’s investment in shipping infrastructure globally has made many countries jittery.
Deep sea metallic nodules could help us shift to clean energy. But we don’t know how much damage it will do to ecosystems
Australia has a vast network of undersea cables and pipelines. Bolstering their security must be a priority.
China and the US have differing interpretations of the law of the sea – and this is fuelling deep distrust and suspicion.
Sri Lanka is still grappling with the consequences of the cargo ship fire, which dumped tonnes of plastic and hazardous chemicals into the ocean.
Australia was once at the forefront of RPAS regulation, but we now trail other jurisdictions – and we’re alarmingly misaligned with international best practice.
Australian businesses will not be forced to comply with or fall foul of the new data regulation merely because they maintain websites accessible in the EU.
Tech companies such as SpaceX, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are competing to bring internet to areas without access in the developing world. And that’s a problem.
Lawyers for 153 Sri Lankan asylum seekers on a boat intercepted by the Australian government applied for a full bench of the High Court to hear its case on August 5 at a directions hearing on Friday. Whereas…
GPS monitoring has been introduced as a potentially revolutionary technology to solve the problems that beset modern prisons - chronic overcrowding, uncontrolled costs, and the failure to correct behaviour…
The lines traversing the surface of the globe are legal fictions that determine the fates of nations. Nowhere is this truer than in the South China Sea. China’s infamous U-shaped line claims most of this…
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