With the world's relief efforts focusing on Gaza and Ukraine, Africa is missing out.

The veteran editor speaks about the media's changing role and declining influence in both Australia and Southeast Asia.The media industry has changed enormously since David Armstrong began his career as a junior reporter for The Australian newspaper in Sydney in 1969, and not for the better. Superficiality and a “gotcha” mentality by too many journalists, he says, has lowered the bar in Australia. But he also says there are bright spots in Southeast Asia among newspapers that have a strong...

The veteran editor on winning awards, breaking news, and managing journalists.

How to save thousands of lives by preventing STDs.Mechai Viravaidya has spent the last 50 years at the helm of family planning in Thailand, and has been credited with saving countless lives through his safe sex campaigns, which rose to the fore when the HIV/AIDS virus took hold in 1981. From his flagship restaurant Cabbages and Condoms in Bangkok, Mechai spoke with The Diplomat’s Luke Hunt about fulfilling his social obligations, inherited from his Thai father and Scottish mother, both...

A conversation with Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch ahead of the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit.

A conversation with war crimes lawyer Michael Karnavas.Michael Karnavas is an American-trained lawyer licensed in Massachusetts and Alaska with 40 years of experience focused largely on war crimes and charges of genocide at tribunals in Cambodia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia. He has worked as a criminal defense lawyer, in state and federal courts in the United States, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Tribunal for Rwanda, the Extraordinary...

Jonny Edbrooke speaks about his various media ventures and the importance of being nice in Southeast Asia.

Luke Hunt interviews Suwanna Gauntlett from the environmental group Wildlife Alliance.

Luke Hunt interviews German filmmaker Nico Mesterharm about arts funding in Southeast Asia and his latest documentary.

Luke Hunt talks with Chris and Anya Minko about volleyball, wars, and Bachelors from Prague

A conversation with Hans van Zoggel.

A conversation with Heang Tak.

A conversation with Gordon Conochie.

A conversation with Jill Gallagher.Jill Gallagher is a senior elder from the Gunditjmara nation, a spokeswoman for the Aboriginal community in the southeast Australian state of Victoria and a key advocate for the yes campaign and the Voice to Parliament, which will be decided through a referendum this Saturday. She says non-indigenous Australians should not feel any guilt about past atrocities committed against Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders who inhabited the continent for 60,000...

A conversation with Mylinh Lee, who arrived in Australia in a boat as a child and a refugee.In 1979, Mylinh Lee arrived in Australia as a child, by boat and as a refugee. More than four decades later she is a public relations specialist in Melbourne where she is also dedicated to the construction of the Vietnamese Museum Australia. The museum, due to open in 2025, is the first in the world dedicated to the plight of Vietnamese refugees, who began arriving in Australia shortly after the fall...

A conversation with Roland Neveu.

A conversation with David Gum Awng of the National Unity Government.

A conversation with Bradley Murg.

A conversation with author Leth Oun.

A conversation about modern day enslavement in Southeast Asia.

A conversation with tribunal witness Rob Hamill.Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal is all but over. The final appeal in the genocide case against the regime's former head of state Khieu Samphan dismissed and legislation passed to wind up the legalities and consign volumes of evidence to the history books. For many of Pol Pot’s victims, the time has come to move on – and that includes Rob Hamill, a New Zealander who testified against Kaing Guek Eav, or Duch, who ran the S-21 extermination...

A conversation with Margaret Bywater.

A conversation with the veteran British journalist and filmmaker Tom Fawthrop.British journalist and filmmaker Tom Fawthrop has delivered his latest documentary on the plight of the Mekong River amid ongoing dam construction, climate change, and that appears to have ended with this year’s heavy rains. "A River Screams for Mercy: Murdering the Mekong" follows efforts by local activists demanding a moratorium on dam construction, but their calls too often fall on deaf ears among authorities...

Bradley Murg discusses the recent ASEAN, G-20, and APEC conclaves.