See no evil

We can no longer live with tenuous polite fictions obfuscating the more profound national security consequences of laissez faire immigration settings, a lack of proactive national integration, and the coddling of political extremism and violence since 7 October 2023.

Never again

The worst terrorist attack on Australian soil specifically targeted Jewish Australians after two years of rising anti-semitism and a royal commission is required to ensure such an atrocity never happens again.

Early warning alert

Dictators and hostile states from Hitler’s Germany to Putin’s Russia and Xi’s China tend to flag their actions long before the shooting starts, and a new national Centre to issue strategic warnings of all types could help Australia prepare.

License to thrill

James Bond first appeared 70 years ago, playing roulette at three o’clock in the morning, in Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, and the character has had almost as much impact on the real world of counter-intelligence as popular culture.