The beat Expanded powers for protective services in Victoria may continue Victoria Police and the state government want to continue to use protective services officers (PSOs) in their expanded role introduced for the Covid-19 emergency. …
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For years Australian universities have exposed themselves to excessive dependence on revenue from international students, particularly from the People’s Republic of China. Unconstrained growth in this sector is changing everything from the design of Australia’s …
I read with interest the recent Strategist posts by John Coyne and Graeme Dunk in which they apparently took different stands on the importance of northern Australia for our defence. With better definition of how …
The rules of global trade went out the window between February and April as nations fought like cats to secure supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE). It was each for themselves and the devil take …
A paradigm shift is taking place in relations between the European Union and China. The Covid-19 crisis has triggered a new debate within Europe about the need for greater supply-chain ‘diversification’, and thus for a …
Sea state The Royal Australian Navy has unveiled the last of its three Hobart-class guided missile destroyers, HMAS Sydney. The other two ships in the series are HMAS Hobart and HMAS Brisbane, and all three …
China’s decision to crack down on Hong Kong with a new security law has shocked the world. But to those who read the resolution issued last November by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist …
While there is a diversity of views on Victoria’s Belt and Road Initiative agreement with Beijing, there seems to be universal agreement on a solution: the federal government should simply assert its constitutional prerogative and …
Washington’s announcement on 21 May that it is unilaterally withdrawing from the Treaty of Open Skies has been rightly condemned as an irresponsible national security misstep. Although there is substance to the US’s claims that …
Australia has a split policy ticket on Donald Trump—quietly horrified at his multilateral impact, yet quite satisfied with the bilateral relationship. Multilateral smash-up contrasts with relative bilateral smoothness. Canberra clings to the Trump administration while …
The beat Pandemic creating new opportunities for organised crime Organised crime groups have been capitalising on the Covid-19 pandemic to boost their images and their businesses. In Italy, the mafia has been delivering food packages …
How will the Covid-19 mega-crisis end? I don’t know, and nor does anyone else. So, perhaps it would be more productive to reflect on how it started. By addressing that issue, we might be able …