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Australia faces an unprecedented set of security challenges
Albert Palazzo | August 17, 2018The international security environment is on the cusp of significant change and the national defence debate must be broadened thematically yet narrowed geographically if the ADF is to protect Australian people.
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Australian ingenuity is still flying high
Brendan Nicholson | August 11, 2018Lockheed Martin’s chief executive in Australia, Vince Di Pietro, praises Australia’s record of innovation in the past and looks forward to a bright future of technological co-operation with the USA.
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The public square: the next theatre of conflict in the digital age
Katherine Mansted | August 7, 2018How Australia acts to protect its public square from foreign interference in the digital age will be a defining issue for our country and for democracies all over the world.
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Fostering a culture of disaster preparedness
Anthony Bergin | August 1, 2018The devastating floods we’ve recently seen in Japan are an indicator of the kinds of challenges we’re facing as a result of a changing climate. How should Australia prepare for similar disasters in the near future?
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I can see clearly now! Tech innovation in law enforcement
Amelia Meurant-Tompkinson | July 30, 2018The rapid acceptance of new technology into our lives creates new risks as well as opportunities and requires a more innovative approach from enforcement and regulatory agencies.
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Riders on the storm: what the Tour de France tells us about global security
Michael Shoebridge | July 28, 2018The world’s greatest sporting event, the Tour de France, is coming to its climax for another year. As well as a great sporting drama in itself, it offers a handy metaphor for the current state of play in global politics.
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The changing rules-based international order: Now what?
Allan Gyngell | July 25, 2018Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop spoke recently at Chatham House about the challenges Australia faces in defending the rules-based liberal international order in a period of global instability. The Foreign Policy White Paper shows how Australia might respond.
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Australia’s response to changing global orders
Allan Gyngell | July 23, 2018Australia has responded to three separate changes in the international order over the past century. The two previous international systems terminated in war. Can a new order be marshalled without conflict?
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Tech leaders sign global pledge against autonomous weapons
Open Forum | July 20, 2018A who’s who of CEOs, engineers and scientists from the technology industry have signed a global pledge – co-organised by UNSW’s Toby Walsh – to oppose lethal autonomous weapons.
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The future of the US–Australia alliance
Charles Edel | July 16, 2018The rules based order supported by democratic alliances has done much to ensure global peace and development, but it must renew itself in the face of external threats and internal doubts to meet the challenges it faces today.
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Alliances in the time of hybrid warfare
Huong Le Thu | July 15, 2018The US–Australia partnership must develop in this time of increasing super-power competition to take account of the changing forms and complexities of tactics and warfare.
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Defence must adapt fast, or fail
Brendan Nicholson | July 9, 2018The overwhelming speed of technological development means armed forces must change their approach to everything from who they recruit and train to how targets are attacked and how a nation defends itself.