In the lead-up to tomorrow’s census, cybersecurity specialists have been bombarding the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ online systems to see if they can be broken. The head of the ABS, Australian Statistician David Gruen, says …
In 1922, German political theorist Carl Schmitt wrote a seminal essay arguing that sovereignty is defined by the power to suspend state law during times of extraordinary threat to national security. The government can then neutralise that …
Over many decades, Hans Ohff and Jon Stanford have made significant contributions to the defence debate in Australia and they’ve have earned the right to comment. As Australian shipbuilders and submariners engaged in the highest level of …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. ‘It’s a very encouraging sign that industry can meet the challenge of ‘eating the elephant’ presented …
Last week it emerged that the Western Australian government, in an apparent attempt to appease the Chinese Communist Party, had given itself the right to stop people from hiring certain public venues if they identify …