ASPI will celebrate its 20th anniversary later this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. The name is the game: the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. ASPI thinks about strategy. …
Cabinet created the Australian Strategic Policy Institute as a small body with a big brain—and, most importantly, a strongly independent voice. Creation stories tell much. And the release of the cabinet records for 2000 by …
If Covid-19 has taught us anything, it’s that Australia needs to link long-term planning with emergency and operational coordination. Our future prosperity depends on governments thinking in terms of rolling and concurrent crises, ensuring solutions …
There are few things more ridiculous than an all-male panel (‘manel’), committee or decision-making body. Aside from some very rare exceptions, why they continue to exist today is completely beyond me. Ambassador to the US …
Early on 2 September 2015, 16 Syrian refugees on a remote Turkish beach hopped onto a small boat built for eight passengers. Each had paid a people smuggler around US$6,000 for passage from Turkey to …