At this point in the US Presidential campaign, the momentum is with Donald Trump. Were the trend to continue, he’d be elected. Outside the US his serial deceits and appallingly bombastic narcissism is redolent of …
Articles by: "Kim Beazley"
This is an era of intense political news management by governments. It’s an extraordinary thing that one of the governments that has been most effective at it, the Howard Government, put in place an organisation …
US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter told the world at this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue, that ‘the US-Australia alliance is more and more a global one. As our two nations work together to uphold the freedom of …
This piece is drawn from Agenda for Change 2016: strategic choices for the next government. The 2016 Defence White Paper didn’t end the contemporary defence debate, it began it. Our strategic environment is full of …
‘If the world is increasingly divided between fire fighters and arsonists then Britain has, for centuries been a fire fighter. This is no time for Britain to join the ranks of the arsonists and there …
While I was Ambassador to the US, I visited Electric Boat’s yard in Groton, Connecticut, where the US Navy’s latest Virginia class nuclear submarines are under construction. This wasn’t an indulgence. Part of my job …
Washington in 2010—one year into the Obama Administration, still mired in the fall-out of the global financial crisis and troubled by Afghanistan and Iraq—didn’t provide fallow ground for new commitments in the Asia–Pacific. A new …
The importance of the ‘rules-based global order’ as a defence priority appears as frequently in Defence White Paper 2016 as ‘self-reliance’ did in Defence White Paper 1987. It’s the leitmotif of the publication. Multiple challenges …
The 2016 Defence White Paper is a first class statement on Australia’s strategic situation. It proffers a balanced view of the significance of Australia’s alliances and ably inserts their defence in the context of broader …