by Peter Jennings | Nov 25, 2024 | China, Policy
Anthony Albanese described his dialogue with Xi Jinping in Brazil last Monday as “crucial” and his personal engagement with the Chinese leader as steering a “patient, calibrated and deliberate approach (that) created many thousands of new jobs in Australia” The two...
by Anthony Bergin | Nov 18, 2024 | Policy
As a child growing up in Melbourne, I remember lining up outside the huge display windows of Myer at Christmas, wide-eyed in wonder at the snowy dioramas. This year anti-Israel agitators announced their intent to disrupt the Christmas windows launch scheduled for...
by Michael Shoebridge | Nov 13, 2024 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
Many people are saying many things about what a second Donald Trump term in the White House might look like. It’s a mug’s game to speculate in areas where we can’t know much. However, on defence budgets and Trump’s expectations for even the closest of US allies,...
by Michael Shoebridge | Nov 12, 2024 | China, Policy
It’s time for the government to spill a secret: whatever happened to its ‘independent review’ of think tanks and universities, and what’s the future for any organisation looking for government funding to continue this work? Back in February, the government appointed...
by Anthony Bergin | Oct 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Australia’s Education Minister Jason Clare recently accused Israel of not complying with international law in bombing hospitals and schools. In war, hospitals aren’t protected if they’re used for non-hospital military purposes. If they are used for...
