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 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 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...
by Michael Shoebridge | Sep 10, 2025 | Featured, Policy
Anyone thinking the Israeli government’s strike on senior Hamas personnel in Qatar or the American government’s strike on a boat carrying 11 alleged Venezuelan drug runners in recent days is good news needs to think again. We have now officially entered the age...
by Michael Shoebridge | Sep 8, 2025 | China, Indo Pacific, Ukraine
Back in the days of the Roman Empire, during parades in their honour Roman commanders used to have someone standing behind them whispering ‘Remember you are mortal’ to prevent the pomp and pageantry going to their heads. So, as Xi Jinping watched his massed...
