by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Sep 24, 2025 | China, Defence Budget, Podcasts, South Pacific, Strategy & Capability
Episode 50: With friends like this…& Why spend r | RSS.com Marcus is back from Australia’s croc-filled Outback. He catches up with Michael on global events: America’s end to a Baltic states security initiative and the Trump...
by Peter Jennings | Sep 21, 2025 | China, Policy, South Pacific
The Albanese government’s failure to conclude security treaties with Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu shows the hollowness of Australian foreign policy in the Pacific. Not finalising these deals is the result of insufficient diplomatic engagement, a lack of genuine local...
by Michael Shoebridge | Sep 19, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Featured, Policy, Uncategorized
In the beating heart of this nation’s capital, Canberra, many of us have been thinking and rethinking about the Australia-US alliance and the AUKUS sub deal that is now so central to it. We’re reaching a crescendo as the long-awaited, much anticipated...
by Mike Kelly and Anthony Bergin | Sep 19, 2025 | Policy
Anthony Albanese will be in New York next week to participate in a high-level meeting to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the UN. One of those sessions will be dedicated to the “Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution”. This follows...
by Michael Shoebridge | Sep 15, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Featured, Policy
Mr Albanese has two choices on Australian defence spending as he prepares to meet US President Donald Trump in New York (hopefully, perhaps). He can increase Australia’s defence budget from its current 2 per cent share of GDP to somewhere around the 3.5 per cent...
