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Richard Nixon reaches out and touches Donald Trump and Jensen Huang
“It’s not the crime that gets you, it’s the coverup”. That line was from Richard Nixon during the 70s era Watergate scandal that started with a bungled burglary and ended with Mr Nixon leaving office in disgrace, waving a victory sign from...
‘Get out of the way when people have good ideas to let them deliver’
As with the rapid evolution of drone warfare in Ukraine, artificial intelligence and quantum computing will bring major advantages and threats to Australia forces, says the officer responsible for providing the ADF’s space and cyber capabilities. Air...
Fear of being quoted is no basis for censoring the Parliament and public debate
This is NOT a Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee Inquiry into the operation and effectiveness of the behaviour codes A funny thing happened on the way to the Parliamentary Inquiry into behaviour standards in Australia's Parliament. The...
OpenAI and Anthropic can protect Australia without raiding its copyright
The Albanese government looks desperate to meet the demands of America’s two leading AI companies, OpenAI and Anthropic, to build big data centres here and train their latest “frontier” models on Australian data. The government’s motives seem to be a...
Missile defence: Australian military’s $10 billion plan to protect itself but leave the rest of us exposed
After watching Russia bombard Ukrainian civilians and cities for 4.5 years with ballistic missiles and drones, and seeing Iran do the same to US bases and Gulf State populations in the Middle East, Australia’s military has started to take missile...
The Donald, Elon & Sam: Personalised power is shaping the world’s directions in politics & big tech – institutions matter less
Watching Steve Witkoff praise one of the world’s great “humanitarians” – Vladimir Putin (the man directing a war of aggression against Ukraine and deliberately killing civilians every day of it) – and seeing Elon Musk and Donald Trump both being...
Grumpies go video: AI national security & copyright with a Triton surveillance drone chaser
Grumpies go video: AI national security & copyrigh | RSS.com Marcus and Michael broadcast this first video podcast from the Bunker, after taking measures to obscure the location (security, opacity and non-disclosure is baked in to the SAA culture,...
AI for national security can co-exist with Australia’s current copyright laws
This new SAA report (available in PDF here) goes through the key issues around Australia's national decision making around AI, the business demands of OpenAI and Anthropic and how this all stacks up in the wider international and technological...
Bad decisions on immigration would disable our health system
It’s time for a serious reality check. Anyone trying to weigh the so-called “immigration debate” should spend some time in an Australian hospital. Immigration is being used cynically as a political wedge by those harking after a long-gone monoculture...
Is REDSPICE now Oldspice? Australia’s cyber plans have been mugged by AI
REDSPICE, the Australian Government’s $10 billion cyber plan for the secretive Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) that started under Scott Morrison in 2022, was the largest investment in the cyber intelligence outfit’s history. It’s a 10 year long...
Hyper-digitised and hyper-personalised: the world has hard problems for Australia’s intelligence community
SAA has released its new report on the world of intelligence, technology and human decision making. Read it here. The intelligence challenges of the last decade haven’t gone away. But the world has become faster, more digital, more personalised and...
Australia’s security race in the South Pacific
Waging a “permanent contest” with China in the South Pacific, Australia is building new alliances and a new security system. Treaties signed with Island states are driven by fear and shock in Canberra, yet also by a sense of responsibility — plus a...
A welcome Wildcat? Austal, AUKUS and an ownership mud wrestle
Who owns and controls Western Australian shipbuilder Austal matters to Australian, American, Japanese and South Korean national security. And there’s an arm wrestle that looks like turning into a mud wrestle over that question of ownership...
AUKUS at 5: Not Dead Yet. Don’t make the rookie error it’s about submarines – it’s about the “Geopolitical Imaginary”…& Dune…
AUKUS at 5: Not Dead Yet. Don't make the rookie er | RSS.com In Episode 82, Marcus scours the garbage bins around government offices in Canberra to feed the SAA bunker's furnaces and so avoid rising energy prices as the Houthis block Red Sea...
A decade of Collins subs mismanagement results in promotions all round, but alarm bells for AUKUS
Speaking last week, Defence Minister Richard Marles called the Collins class submarines “Australia’s most important military platform”. So it’s more than disturbing to read the ANAO Audit report on the Defence leadership’s disastrous management of...
Oz Budgets: the Unhappy meet the Disappointed. Big Defence numbers get small. And the cage fight in Beijing.
Oz Budgets: the Unhappy meet the Disappointed. Big | RSS.com Michael and Marcus argue furiously over the merits and messages in the Albanese Govt budget versus Opposition leader Angus Taylor's response. Only one of them is right....Then Marcus...
Our Kentucky Colonel masters deflection, the War & AUKUS sub outcomes – magical thinking meets US & UK partner realities
Our Kentucky Colonel masters deflection, the War & | RSS.com Well, despite the great news from Energy Minister Chris Bowen that Australia faces no energy crisis other than silly unwashed Australians panicking, the Iran War has already created a...
AUKUS submarines: US and UK partners show the realities facing Australia’s small fleet
In 2056, 30 years from now, when Australia has eight nuclear powered submarines (SSNs), we will have two deployable submarines consistently available. That’s assuming all goes well with AUKUS’ “optimal pathway” and we do in fact have eight SSNs in...
Sea lanes, straits & subs: How many nuclear subs to open Hormuz?
The war between the US, Israel and Iran is now entering its fourth week, and despite the loss of many senior figures, the Iranian regime survives. It is very difficult to bomb people into democracy. And so this war risks becoming a trial of...
The tragic death of the Major Projects Report: a crime with 3 culprits & 27 million victims
6 March 2026 is the day we can say that transparency around Australia’s Department of Defence died, or more accurately, was executed. It’s now sleeping with the fishes, mafioso style. On a Friday, the traditional day for burying controversial...
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