My daughter recently asked me what makes Australia worth fighting for. I started with the usual answers about freedom and democracy, but she wasn’t convinced. What she understood better were the things she could see …
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‘Everybody wants to rule the world’, sang Tears for Fears, a line later reimagined by Lorde that still resonates today. In northern Australia, everybody wants something: Defence wants resilience; Indigenous communities want opportunity; states want …
Earlier this month, I had the privilege of attending the Australian American Leadership Dialogue in Adelaide. This unique forum brought together leaders from politics, business, academia and the community to strengthen the bonds between our …
When we talk about military trauma, we tend to picture the direct, visceral aftermath of combat. But often, trauma comes not from bullets or bombs but from bearing witness to the gendered violence that festers …
An article in The Strategist by Mike Keating and Jon Stanford on 22 August calling for abandoning the nuclear-submarine element of AUKUS is unconvincing. Most fundamentally, the authors, while arguing that the agreement aligns Australia …