[Note to SAA readers: This article appeared in The Australian on 03 January 2025. Overnight the...
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Job done for China’s ambassador — but 2025 will be much harder
China’s ambassador Xiao Qian has replaced wolf warrior language with silken tofu. According to his...
Varghese review will kill off fair, open policy debate
It seems the Albanese government is happy with, but not proud of, Peter Varghese’s “Independent...
Fall of Assad triggers momentous shift in Middle East power plays
For more than a decade Syria has been a patchwork of contesting tribal loyalties overlaid with the...
Right Here Right Now: Unleashing Australian know-how to grow military power fast
This is the third report in the IPA-SAA Blueprint for Defence series that provides an action plan...
Another Brick in the Wall: Education, not control can help young Australians with social media
The Labor government’s mis- and disinformation bill died in the Senate this week and rightly so....
PM’s precarious US-China juggling is about to reach its use by date
Anthony Albanese described his dialogue with Xi Jinping in Brazil last Monday as “crucial” and his...
Rudd dilemma should’ve been resolved long ago — it’s too late now
Our relationship with the US is too important to put on hold while we debate Kevin Rudd’s lengthy...
The Hulk is back, and he won’t like our defence weakness
During the 2016 presidential election I wrote that the United States desperately needed Captain...
The war in Gaza is not over … but we are nearing the beginning of the end
With Yahya Sinwar’s death, Israel is stronger, Hamas is on the way out, and Hezbollah and the...
Israel left with few choices as Tehran raises nuclear threat
A year after the Hamas atrocities, put to one side the street theatre of protests and Labor’s...
A Defence Force that meets Australia’s strategic requirements: Paper 2 in A Blueprint for the Next Government
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) and its strategic outlook are in crisis and urgent action is...
Tolerating these street protests has incubated extremism
It shouldn’t have happened this way. In 12 months of political ineptitude and strategic blindness,...
Our enemies could put a digital stranglehold on us during a conflict
Defence and security agencies around the world – the smart ones – are rethinking their...
Attacks on Trump must sound warning bells in Australia
The assassination attempts on former president Donald Trump point to continuity rather than a...