Last week, Sir John Chilcot’s review revealed that in 2003 the then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, committed his country to the US-led invasion of Iraq based on ‘flawed intelligence and assessments’. After the report’s …
For the past decade, successive prime ministers have been grappling with the question of how best to organise the Australian government to face a widening array of oft-interconnected national security issues. Now, with a shifting …
The Beat Law enforcement and guns scrutinised after the Orlando massacre In the early hours of Sunday morning, a gunman went on a shooting rampage in an Orlando nightclub leaving 49 people dead and resulting …
This piece is drawn from Agenda for Change 2016: strategic choices for the next government. The defence of Australia’s interests is a core business of federal governments. Regardless of who wins the election on 2 …
The Beat In depth: Anti-Corruption Summit On 12 May, British Prime Minister David Cameron held an Anti-Corruption Summit in London. The Summit focused on some of the biggest global corruption problems, including secrecy in the …