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Explainer: how the Australian intelligence community works
This article is the first in a five-part series exploring Australian national security in the digital age. BY PROFESSOR JOHN BLAXLAND, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National...
Why is no one debating one of the budget's biggest spends?
One of the largest and fastest growing expenditures in the federal budget, defence spending, will receive little or no debate, to the cost of our nation’s security. Public debate on health funding,...
Australia and the Korean Crisis: Confronting the limits of influence?
by Andrew O’Neil, Brendan Taylor and William T. Tow North Korea’s announcement last weekend that it has suspended its nuclear and missile testing programs is one more sign the country...
As a new defence chief comes in, Australia must focus its attention on its neighbours
By Professor John Blaxland, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU. On Anzac Day, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull commemorated the centenary of the battle at Villers-Brettoneux, where Australian...
Tenets of Thailand’s ASEAN engagement
ASEAN member states have different perspectives on the significance of the grouping. As one of the founder member states, the second largest economy and a leading state within ASEAN, Thailand’s view...
Who Cares If Duterte Skips the ASEAN-Australia Summit?
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to skip the ASEAN-Australia commemorative summit did not come as a surprise. Despite the warm gesture extended by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm...
China’s New J-20 Stealth Fighter Has Officially Entered Service
Chinese President Xi Jinping wants to transform China’s military into the world’s most powerful force by 2050. And he could be on track to do it. On the opening day of its National People’s Congress...
When Australian nuclear weapons could make sense
What a way to start a year! The debate initiated by three former Australian deputy secretaries of defence—Hugh White, Paul Dibb and Richard Brabin-Smith—about the possibility of Australia acquiring...
Mahathir Mohamad crops up again in bid to lead Malaysia – with Anwar on the same side
On January 8, former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad announced his intention to contest the next general election, due sometime before August this year. In an unprecedented political...
Foreign policy: why we should expect more of ourselves
We are starting to turn the “soft bigotry of low expectations” against our own government, and therefore against ourselves. Look at the way we have responded to the government’s recent Foreign...
