by Peter Jennings | Jul 29, 2024 | Policy
Anthony Albanese’s ministerial reshuffle weakens the Department of Home Affairs, gives Defence two ministers in cabinet – a recipe for blame shifting – and leaves the Prime Minister without policymaking heft across national security. Instead, we have a gaggle of...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Jul 26, 2024 | Podcasts, Policy
The Great Debates: a civil nuclear debate | RSS.com Episode 1 of the Great Debate series – on topics in Australia that need discussion but are reduced to shouting matches from inside closed bubbles. Green shirted Marcus is Mr Renewables and black suited Michael...
by David Brewster and Anthony Bergin | Jul 24, 2024 | South Pacific, Strategy & Capability
Piracy, drug trafficking, people smuggling and illegal fishing are among the many maritime security challenges faced in the Indian Ocean. Many littoral countries are increasingly aware of the importance of Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) as a foundation for effective...
by Marcus Hellyer | Jul 24, 2024 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
There’s a tsunami coming. It’s the huge surge of work needed to deliver Australia’s naval capability plan. Unlike most tsunamis, however, we have some idea of the size of what’s coming. It’s already visible on the horizon. Whether we are prepared for it is another...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Jul 18, 2024 | Podcasts, Strategy & Capability, Ukraine
Post-shot US election update, Ukrainian & Ozzie dr | RSS.com Marcus and Michael discuss the US election & the alliance post debate and failed assassination, before covering Ukraine military assistance and the alternative realities in Australia’s...
by Peter Jennings | Jul 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Even an assassination attempt becomes just another marketing angle in our world of 24/7 politics. We will find out the details of ballistic analysis, but on the basis of the video images it looks as though Donald Trump dodged death by about two centimetres. By...
by Anthony Bergin | Jul 13, 2024 | Policy
Peter Jennings highlights the problems of protecting Australia’s Parliament House in the light of pro-Palestine protestors gaining access to the roof. Total security can be achieved but only at a cost to the operation and image of the site. The key is finding an...
by Michael Shoebridge | Jul 9, 2024 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
Australia’s Department of Defence has found a way to buy a small number of small Switchblade armed drones from a US company. In the world of drone warfare, our military will need many different types of drone and they will use and lose lots of them in any...
by Marcus Hellyer | Jul 8, 2024 | AUKUS, Strategy & Capability
What is SSN-AUKUS? This is not a metaphysical question along the lines of what is the meaning of life, or even that other perplexing one, namely what is AUKUS? It’s a straightforward question about what the design of the nuclear-powered submarine that Australia and...
by Peter Jennings | Jul 8, 2024 | Policy
Australia’s “new” Parliament House was designed to be an open building where citizens could literally walk over the heads of their elected representatives along two sweeping plains of grass that define the Senate and House of Representatives’ offices. Completed in...
