Tag Archive for: "G20"
Cyber wrap

As we await the release of Government’s Cyber Security Strategy, the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s first unclassified threat report has provided an indication of the challenges the Strategy is seeking to overcome. The high rate …

Defending ‘the region’

I write to make a further contribution to the ongoing debate about Australia’s strategic place as a Top 20 power. In Peter’s latest response he implies that regionalists are less ‘grown up’ than globalists. I …

The delights of summitry

On the evidence of APEC, the East Asia Summit and the G20, anyone who decries summitry as a waste of time, talent and money either has a narrow view of the world or is extremely …

Tony Abbott and the Thatcher view

While Tony Abbot calls John Howard his mentor, it’s worth considering the impact on the Abbott universe of another political warrior whose profile was always instantly recognisable. The warrior’s hair was perfect as a helmet, …