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A Radical New Defence Policy - Brendan Sargeant
This is the transcript of the speech delivered by Honorary Professor Brendan Sargeant at the public panel event ‘Why Australia Needs a Radically New Defence Policy’ on 27 September 2018. Two other...
A Radical New Defence Policy - Paul Dibb
This is the transcript of the speech delivered by Professor Paul Dibb at the public panel event ‘Why Australia Needs a Radically New Defence Policy’ on 27 September 2018. Two other speeches were...
A Radical New Defence Policy - Richard Brabin-Smith
This is the transcript of the speech delivered by Honorary Professor Richard Brabin-Smith at the public panel event ‘Why Australia Needs a Radically New Defence Policy’ on 27 September 2018. Two...
Is the time right for Australia and Japan to become formal allies?
BY LUKE COURTOIS Should Australia and Japan sign a defence treaty to challenge China’s military rise? Luke Courtois argues that such a move would send a very poor signal to China, destabilising an...
Time for an Indo-Australis?
BY NATALIE SAMBHI Over the past year, there’s been a flurry of regional leaders offering their vision of the Indo-Pacific, the geostrategic concept spanning two oceans that is slowly replacing the...
The Trump-Kim Summit and Implications For Australia
BY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BRENDAN TAYLOR Following the historic events of last week, the situation on the Korean Peninsula could go one of three ways, each with significant implications for Australia...
Slow-burning China crisis the birth of a new order
BY BRENDAN SARGEANT Getting on with China now involves a learning curve for Australia as Beijing probes and coerces to test this new strategic environment. In recent weeks there has been a crisis...
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?
BY DR ANDREW CARR 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...
Australia and the Korean Crisis: Confronting the limits of influence?
BY PROFESSOR ANDREW O’NEIL, DR BRENDAN TAYLOR and PROFESSOR WILLIAM T. TOW North Korea’s announcement last weekend that it has suspended its nuclear and missile testing programs is one...
