The decision by the United States last month to withdraw from the 30-year tuna treaty with Pacific Island countries will take effect in January next year. The treaty is one of the most important aid …
Articles by: "Anthony Bergin"
In a recent opinion piece with Tony Press, I mentioned that last November, an RAAF C-17A Globemaster delivering heavy lift cargo flew from Hobart to Australia’s Wilkins runway near Casey Station in Antarctica. The flight …
Australian infrastructure, along with the threat of natural or manmade disasters, is particularly complex, making infrastructure failures inevitable. That’s why I read with interest Paul Barnes’ post on improving the disaster resilience of critical infrastructure in …
I recently attended a fascinating ASPI forum on developments in the South China Sea. The forum came against the backdrop of the second round of arbitral tribunal hearings at The Hague on the Philippines’ historic …
In the lead up to the Paris tragedy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned about the dangers of ‘going dark’: data stored on e-mail, text messages, phone calls, live chat sessions, photos and videos being …
In 2013-14 for the first time China ($27.7 billion) was the largest source country for approved proposed foreign investment in Australia, overtaking the US ($17.5 billion). Also for the first time, Chinese private sector investment …
Different countries and regions across the African continent have been subject to a range of brutal terrorist activities in recent years. They have included hostage-taking incidents and deadly attacks on the Tigantourine gas facility in …
Forty years ago Australia decided to engage China. We should now embark on a similar path of engagement with Africa. Africa is on a growth trajectory that’s enabled it to become the world’s fastest-growing continent. …
In an opinion piece in The Australian today I argue that while COAG’s recent counterterrorism strategy (PDF) usefully outlines the importance of engaging the Australian public (and a range of other sectors such as business) …
Ahead of a high-level countering violent extremism (CVE) meeting planned for the margins of the United Nations General Assembly next month, our Strategic Insights paper released today, Security through aid, argues that CVE and terrorism …
In a Strategic Insights paper released today, Creative tension: parliament and national security, we argue that enhancing parliament’s role in national security will reinforce executive accountability, expand public access to policy processes, improve the quality …
Schools are now on the frontline of countering violent extremism (CVE). Last week, the New South Wales government announced a state-wide audit of all prayer groups conducted in public schools following allegations of radical Islam …