This will be a year of living with danger

by Peter Jennings | Jan 14, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Featured, Indo Pacific, Policy, Strategy & Capability

If you thought 2024 was hard for defence and security, the outlook at the beginning of 2025 suggests this year will be even riskier. From 2020, all Australian defence ministers have said the strategic outlook has never been more challenging than since the end of World...

Not alert and not alarmed: our complacency puts us at risk, politically and socially

by Peter Jennings | Jan 3, 2025 | Featured, Policy

[Note to SAA readers: This article appeared in The Australian on 03 January 2025. Overnight the FBI investigation of the attack concluded that Shamsud-Din Jabbar probably planted two IEDs in the vicinity of Bourbon Street himself, before engaging in his vehicle...

Labor must explain why it’s trashed a historic friendship

by Mike Kelly and Anthony Bergin | Dec 19, 2024 | Featured, Policy

In her recent Hawke Oration delivered on Monday night, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said we expect both Russia and China to abide by international law and expect Israel to do the same She has never specified whether Israel is not complying with the law or what law is...

Australian government increasingly anti-Israel

by Anthony Bergin | Nov 18, 2024 | Featured, 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...

The war in Gaza is not over … but we are nearing the beginning of the end

by Peter Jennings | Oct 18, 2024 | Policy

With Yahya Sinwar’s death, Israel is stronger, Hamas is on the way out, and Hezbollah and the Houthis with them. Iran is in deep trouble … but highly dangerous. Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar didn’t find his death hiding in a tunnel. He was caught above ground...