In an era of intensifying strategic competition, Australia’s national security is no longer a matter confined to the corridors of Canberra. It is a whole-of-nation challenge, demanding a coherent, unified strategy that aligns every level …
The Australian government has cancelled Victoria’s Belt and Road Initiative agreement with China. In the first decisions under the government’s new law allowing it to quash arrangements states, territories and public universities have, or propose …
The Victorian government’s Belt and Road Initiative program is a zombie project that has its own inertia and is proceeding despite the world changing around it. It needs to be halted and comprehensively reassessed. The …
The Chinese Communist Party leadership is using the decisions made by the premier of Victoria to engineer a split between the federal government and the states and territories on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature Belt …
On 11 November, Prime Minister Scott Morrison spoke out against religious extremism because of its link to terrorism and violence. Opposition to his statement was swift, including from federal Labor MP Anne Aly, a former …




