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Blog: The Strategist
Yesterday's 2+2 ANZMIN meeting of Australian and New Zealand foreign and defence ministers in Melbourne will be viewed as a natural part of an alliance that evokes memories of the Anzacs at Gallipoli and was ...
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The fact that convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika is being released from jail should be of concern to all Australians. Alarmingly, it's happening without the court system even being asked to consider a continuing detention ...
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Geopolitics is driving the dangerous strategic realities that Australia faces. Beijing's expansionist agenda is seen through its military aggression and commitment to undermining and changing international rules; Russia continues its revisionist war against Ukraine and a disruptive foreign ...
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The wars raging in Europe and the Middle East remind us that conflicts erupt suddenly. It's a point that some AUKUS critics have seized on to say Australia and its partners are not making sufficient ...
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The federal government is poised to release a new cybersecurity strategy, which follows last year's criminal intrusions into Australia's health and telecommunications sectors and recent revelations that the US government is hunting Chinese malware that could disrupt critical ...
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Last weekend, China's coastguard and maritime militia carried out dangerous and aggressive manoeuvres against a small Philippines boat, blocking and blasting it with a powerful water cannon. The vessel was trying to resupply a remote ...
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As the government prepares to introduce legislation into parliament for an Australia-wide ban on Nazi symbols, it's timely to revisit the extensive coverage of this issue in ASPI's Counterterrorism yearbook 2022. The yearbook placed the ...
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Countering terrorism while preserving essential freedoms and holding together a stable and harmonious community isn't an easy task, but it has been managed effectively by successive Australian governments and their agencies. The Albanese government's focus ...
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The next independent review of Australia's intelligence community received welcome funding in this month's federal budget. That should put Canberra on track to meet the five- to seven-yearly schedule set by the post-Iraq Flood review ...
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Soon after she became foreign minister in May last year, Penny Wong went on a self-described listening tour of the Pacific. 'I'm very happy to be here again, to listen … to the new government ...
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The defence strategic review gives the clearest description yet of the perilous strategic circumstances in which we are living. It is not based on distant future scenarios but on the reality of the threats from ...
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French President Emmanuel Macron's recent visit to China and his subsequent comment that Europe should not get dragged into a confrontation over Taiwan made clear that his vision of strategic autonomy involves concentrating on security ...
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The following is an edited summary of introductory remarks made to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) today by ASPI executive director Justin Bassi, the head of ASPI's counter terrorism program, John ...
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Australia's foreign policy and place in the world have long been considered the domain of diplomats, defence officials and national-security decision-makers in Canberra. There are no departments of foreign affairs or defence, or intelligence agencies, ...
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Last week, the government reaffirmed that the executive decides when Australia goes to war. The government also outlined plans to strengthen oversight mechanisms, including through a new joint statutory committee on defence (JSCD) and a ...