Stepping up our security game

In the late 1970s Australian sport underwent institutional innovation propelling it to new heights of success, and today’s security services need to undergo a similar revolution in terms of technology and processes to meet evermore challenging demands.

Intelligence on the agenda

The unclassified version of the 2024 Independent Intelligence Review is a welcome and worthy sequel to its 2017 predecessor, with an ambitious set of recommendations to improve Australia’s national intelligence capacity.

Reopening the Mitrokhin archive

Tuesday 23 January marked 20 years since the passing of a Russian defector whose revelations confirmed the egregious nature of Soviet intelligence operations and global interference during the Cold War.

Let’s stop logging for landfill

Almost all native forest logging in Victoria is for woodchips, pulp and pallets, which have short lifespans before going to landfill. Using plantation produced wood would help protect native forests and the large amounts of carbon they can store.

Logging burns conceal industrial pollution in the name of ‘community safety’

Rather than ‘hazard reduction burns’, a large proportion of the smoke which has fouled Melbourne this autumn was produced by the intensive burning of debris left behind after clearfell logging. This is essentially industrial pollution.