The accelerating velocity and seriousness of the strategic challenges confronting Australia have forced political leaders to think very hard indeed about the US alliance and about relations with China. These challenges involve, as often noted, …
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Australia’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Linda Reynolds pulled off a magic trick at this week’s AUSMIN meeting. Australian decisions and directions—on military power, digital technology, misinformation and military supply chains—set the scene …
Past communiqués from Australia–US Ministerial Consultations often contained pages on international developments and few ‘action items’ shaping what the US and Australia really do. Wednesday’s joint statement reverses that pattern by offering a long list of …
The outcome of the recent AUSMIN meeting—the annual gathering of the secretaries of state and defence from the United States and the foreign and defence ministers from Australia—was a signal of the alliance’s increasing focus …
In this podcast, we discuss the recent AUSMIN meeting and the state of the US alliance, ‘free speech panic’, judicial changes in Poland and the latest cyber news including the controversy surrounding the government’s My …