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ASPI's analysis and commentary site. Today’s joint statement from the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting in Washington is short and sweet, particularly for those who have been arguing that the grouping should overtly embrace security cooperation.
Editors' picks for 2024: 'Faster, cheaper ways to expand Australia’s ...
Originally published on 22 March 2024. Following the release of the Australia’s Surface Fleet Review, a big problem remains: the Australian Defence Force lacks sufficient maritime firepower to credibly implement deterrence-by-denial in the next 10 years.
Editors’ picks for 2024: ‘Australia should grow its own fuel’
Dec 23, 2024 · Originally published on 18 March 2024. Australia really does run on the smell of an oily rag. Our fuel reserves are pitifully low by international standards, and we produce very little fuel domestically.
Editors' picks for 2024: 'Celebrating 10 years of ASPI’s Women in ...
Dec 26, 2024 · Angela Suriyasenee is a researcher and Daria Impiombato is an analyst at ASPI.. Image shows panellists at the WDSN gala dinner. From left to right: Catherine Burn from ASIS, Jessica Hunter from the Australian Signals Directorate, Michelle Chan from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Stephanie Copus Campbell Australia’s Ambassador for Gender Equality, Hayley Channer from the United ...
Culture matters in the Independent Intelligence Review 2024
Workplace culture is important. It’s time to examine it in the National Intelligence Community (NIC). Research shows that people surrounded by behaviour contrary to organisational values are 47 per cent more likely to engage in unethical behaviour. Another finding is that average teams outperform those dominated by unpleasant superstars.
India and Philippines speak different strategic languages. Australia ...
Nov 21, 2024 · The ‘emerging axis’ of autocratic powers epitomised by China’s support for Russia’s war against Ukraine is, as Australia’s top intelligence chief Andrew Shearer recently said, one of the most troubling strategic developments today. And just ...
Editors’ picks for 2024: ‘A PNG view on recruitment for the ADF: …
Originally published on 12 August 2024. Papua New Guineans should serve in the Australian Defence Force. As a Papua New Guinean, I believe this would instill Western values of democracy and freedom in our young people, who must be made to realise that these principles are under threat as China expands its influence in the region.
Instability in Pacific politics? Yes, but it’s stable instability
Dec 11, 2024 · Political instability in the Pacific isn’t significantly increasing. It just feels like it—with the recent dissolution of parliament in Vanuatu and motions of no confidence in Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Solomon Islands.. Although the past two years show a spike in leadership challenges, these are due to specific countries—Vanuatu in 2023 and PNG in 2024—and not widespread circumstances.
Critical technology tracker: two decades of data show rewards of …
Aug 30, 2024 · China and the United States have effectively switched places as the overwhelming leader in research in just two decades, ASPI’s latest Critical Technology Tracker results reveal.. The latest tracker findings, which can be found in a new report and on the website, show the stunning shift in research leadership over the past 21 years towards large economies in the Indo-Pacific, led by China ...
Editors’ picks for 2024: ‘The long arc of Australian defence strategy’
Dec 24, 2024 · Michael Pezzullo was deputy chief of staff to the Leader of the Opposition, Kim Beazley, from 1997 to 2001.As deputy secretary in the Department of Defence, he was the lead author of the 2009 Defence White Paper. He was secretary of the Department of Home Affairs from 2017 to 2023.