Australia and Japan should recast their power relationship

Ryan Neelam is director of the Public Opinion and Overseas Coverage Program on the Lowy Institute, a global coverage suppose tank based mostly in Sydney. Michelle Lyons is a analysis fellow within the institute’s Indo-Pacific Growth Centre.

For greater than a decade, Australia was a world laggard on local weather motion. However because the Australian Labor Celebration’s 2022 election victory, Canberra’s tone has shifted from reticence, and at occasions even denial, to ambition.