by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Nov 20, 2023 | AUKUS, Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
AUKUS own goals – Australia’s new draft export controls | RSS.com “It looks like Australia just gave up its sovereignty and got nothing for it” – Bill Greenwalt (intergalactic expert on US export control laws): This episode focuses on the...
by Michael Shoebridge | Nov 18, 2023 | China, Indo Pacific, Strategy & Capability
At APEC in San Fransisco, Mr Albanese told us this about his meeting there with Xi Jinping “I also had an opportunity to meet with President Xi and to thank him for the welcome and the discussions that we had in my visit to China recently.” He added: On ‘breakthroughs...
by Peter Jennings | Nov 17, 2023 | Indo Pacific, Policy, Strategy & Capability
In a brief media doorstop after arriving in San Francisco, Anthony Albanese used the word “important” 11 times to describe his visit and the necessity of attending APEC. He said seven times that he was “catching up” with various leaders, from presidents Joe Biden and...
by Michael Shoebridge | Nov 15, 2023 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Policy, Strategy & Capability
After the release of the damning – self-written – summary of the Defence leadership’s failed advice to the government on the $45 billion Hunter frigate, no one can have any confidence that other key decisions on military capability are any better. In their own words,...
by Anthony Bergin | Nov 13, 2023 | Policy
Penny Wong has called on Israel to stop “the attacking of hospitals” in Gaza. Australia was “particularly concerned with what is happening with medical facilities … I would make this point in relation to hospitals and medical facilities – international...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Nov 13, 2023 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Podcasts, South Pacific, Strategy & Capability
The Travel and Accountability Edition: Tuvalu, leadership failure & the Hunter frigates, and the B-21 | RSS.com Australian PM Albanese’s world tour ends with a bright spot in the South Pacific. On the $45 billion Hunter frigate program, an internal review...
by Anthony Bergin and Greg Rose | Nov 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Israel has agreed to daily military pauses in northern Gaza for humanitarian purposes. But a wholesale Israeli ceasefire in Gaza still hangs in the balance. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected this unless the 240 hostages held in Gaza are released. In...
by Michael Shoebridge | Nov 11, 2023 | China, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Policy, Strategy & Capability
You have to wonder what Joe Biden, Xi Jinping and Cook Islands’ Mark Brown make of prime minister Albanese’s combined visits to them in the last three weeks. Looked at individually, each visit makes sense. But the problem is that, unlike the pre-internet days, what...
by Greg Rose and Anthony Bergin | Nov 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
George Orwell once observed that in war pacifists harm the military effort of their democracy and give military advantage to their opponents. Anthony Albanese is calling on Israel to pause its war efforts for humanitarian reasons – in effect a ceasefire. US...
by Michael Shoebridge | Nov 7, 2023 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Strategy & Capability
Anthony Albanese’s visit to America has done three things. It has broadened the ambition for the alliance into new areas like critical minerals production. It’s revealed a new, deeper dependency on American ‘big tech’ for our government. And it’s highlighted the...
