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Ian Hall

@drianhall.bsky.social
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Professor of International Relations at Griffith University, India’s foreign policy, Indo-Pacific stuff, snakes when I find one. Usual caveats.

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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Not many locations, I reckon, where you see autographs from these two in the same place.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Should add that it doesn’t always drizzle.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
HMS Sutherland in the drizzle on Loch Fyne.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
From @privateeyenews.bsky.social
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I have a feeling that Lotty might not be a real person working in the "filed" of tourism.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I think I'd be a bit more circumspect if I was intending to run for President soon. Plus I'd get my boss to put his name on the deal. PS. Where's Rubio?
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Syrup or action? Look forward to seeing this tested in the next Newspoll.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
AI makes such odd claims in response to ordinary queries. 158 days down, 207 to go. The midpoint of the year. Huh?
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
There are times when I despair about what gets written in supposedly or otherwise serious books.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
These questions raise a whole lot more questions.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Kudos to whomever left a pile of these in the lounges in Canberra airport.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Geoologist nerd conference joke alert.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Australia’s new national security policy just dropped.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The alarm bells in Delhi must be deafening now. And I can't imagine that Sharif, the nominal leader of Pakistan, would be impressed by being named after Munir.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
L'Arc de Trump. Complete with Iranian-operated toll booth for all those who want to pass through it.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
*stares in Brzezinski*
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Good grief.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“Cyber security is my passion” Canberra rental car edition.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Little Rocket Man and...Tank Girl?
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The rise of political - and militant - Christianism.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Zhongnanhai must be a riot right now. I bet they can barely believe their luck.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I mean, we’ve all been there, one way or another. I’m sure Fulvia had her reasons…
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The internet? Broken? Perish the thought. PS. No one died on QF32 but for some reason, this comes up very regularly.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Not good.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
It is reassuring that despite the arrival of a new bunch of lunatics on the British political stage, the old, established and mostly benign loonies are still going.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I can't imagine what.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I am going with nope.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Carl Schmitt would have expressed this more elegantly, but "He who saves his country violates no law" is straight from his school of pseudo-intellectual Nazism.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We are doomed.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Behold the sharp wit and subtle banter of debate in the Mother of Parliaments!
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Very hard to imagine that a major Indian paper would have published a picture like this under Trump 1.0.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
A rather stern local. Jakarta.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Xi Jinping will be pleased. A "new era" indeed. Yikes.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Never change, universities.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Catching up on some historical parallels.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
What a paragraph. Reminds you of what political journalism used to be like. From this Renfrew Christie obituary. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Compost bin visitor.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Folks, I know no one wants to listen to professors anymore, but here’s Google’s AI on Thucydides, the strong and the weak, and all that…
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
If I could turn back time If I could find a way I'd take back those words that have hurt you and you'd stay If I could reach the stars, I'd give 'em all to you Then you'd love me, love me like you used to do, ohh...
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Twas ever thus.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The verbal lengths to which we will go to avoid the word "basing".
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Writing is my passion.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Heads up, Canberra.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I’m not sure what they have put in the water at DFAT recently, but whatever they have done has stimulated the writing of a lot of new diplomatic memoirs. Looking forward to reading this one from Lachlan Strahan…all 550-odd pages!
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Idly reading through an enterprise agreement and…oh… I had no idea there were set rates for that kind of thing.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Depressing to see that Indian communities in Australia are now being targeted with these phone scams, which have long been a problem for Chinese communities, including international students. This message has been posted on the Indian High Commission's website.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Again. Really? We're still doing this?
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