by Mike Kelly and Anthony Bergin | Jan 15, 2024 | Policy
Foreign Minister Penny Wong arrives in Israel this week with an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of key developments to better inform our approach to the Israel-Gaza war. The minister will also be able to convey Australian ideas that might be...
by Peter Jennings | Jan 7, 2024 | Strategy & Capability
Sunday, January 7, is three months since Hamas’s terrorist attack in southern Israel, where more than 1500 jihadists crossed over from Gaza on the morning of a Jewish religious holiday, killed 1200 people, raping and torturing many, and taking several...
by Peter Jennings | Jan 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
The horrific Hamas pre-emptive strike on Israel on October 7 should have been a global wake-up call that jihadist violent extremism was not eliminated by the defeat of the Islamic State group in the battle for Mosul in Iraq in 2017. The extremism represented by Hamas,...
by Greg Rose and Anthony Bergin | Jan 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
In a puppet play, the puppet master pulls the strings. Today’s international performance is one that Iran has produced after years of masterful financing, scripting, casting, practising, and propagandising. The characters are Iran’s proxy networks: the Houthis in...
by Peter Jennings | Dec 30, 2023 | Policy, Strategy & Capability
The Albanese government ends 2023 adrift on national security and foreign policy, like the HMAS Toowoomba in the Sea of Japan a few weeks ago, propellers snarled and hostile forces looming. Four examples from late December expose Anthony Albanese’s malaise: failing to...
