My task as ASPI’s inaugural chairman was to give substance to the Australian government’s decision in the late 1990s
‘There are only two people I trust, God and the Commonwealth Statistician.’ So said Billy Hughes—statesman and patriot, renegade and mountebank—Australia’s seventh prime minister and federal MP for a record 51 years. Whatever the trust …
Canberra cabinet making is an inexact science. In creating a front bench, the roll call of winners and losers is writ large. Then comes the harder stuff of gauging the power and personal chemistry throbbing …
This piece is drawn from Agenda for Change 2016: strategic choices for the next government. Regardless of their political stripes, the next Australian government has a solid foundation from which to approach cyber policy, comprised …
The media philosophy offered in this series is the belief that in the Media Age the more you give the more you make. The continuous flow of honest news—good and bad—from the Australian Defence Force …