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4 weeks ago | 
thestandard.org.nz | Bernard Hickey |Brian Easton |Alex Bristow |Jocelinn Kang
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
aspistrategist.org.au | Alex Bristow
Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Defence Minister Richard Marles and their Kiwi counterparts need to discuss nuclear deterrence, not just non-proliferation, when they meet in Auckland for the second 2+2 Australia-New Zealand ministerial consultations (ANZMIN) today. The growing salience of nuclear weapons in the Indo-Pacific will force difficult choices in the coming years.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
openforum.com.au | Alex Bristow |Malcolm Davis
The 17 October announcement that Australia would give 49 surplus M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine is welcome, regardless of quibbles over the timeliness of the decision. Australia’s domestic debate over the process for donating materiel to Ukraine is important, but it mustn’t distract Canberra from the larger strategic task of helping Kyiv to end the war on its terms, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s newly unveiled victory plan has brought back into focus.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
aspistrategist.org.au | Alex Bristow |Malcolm Davis
The 17 October announcement that Australia would give 49 surplus M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine is welcome, regardless of quibbles over the timeliness of the decision. Australia’s domestic debate over the process for donating materiel to Ukraine is important, but it mustn’t distract Canberra from the larger strategic task of helping Kyiv to end the war on its terms, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s newly unveiled victory plan has brought back into focus.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
aspistrategist.org.au | Alex Bristow |Malcolm Davis
For two countries so geographically far apart, Australia and Norway have surprisingly aligned strategic perspectives. This has underpinned a burgeoning defence industry partnership and unprecedented reciprocal visits by defence ministers this month. ASPI hosted Norway’s defence minister, Bjorn Gram, during his time in Canberra to exchange views on the security outlook and the development of an integrated defence industrial base.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
openforum.com.au | Alex Bristow |Justin Bassi
Foreign Minister Penny Wong was right to champion a new declaration for the protection of humanitarian personnel at the United Nations in New York this week. But the initiative will only be effective if it tackles the threat posed by Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist groups who use aid workers and other civilians as human shields.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
aspistrategist.org.au | Alex Bristow |Justin Bassi
Foreign Minister Penny Wong was right to champion a new declaration for the protection of humanitarian personnel at the United Nations in New York this week. But the initiative will only be effective if it tackles the threat posed by Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist groups who use aid workers and other civilians as human shields.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
aspi.org.au | Alex Bristow |Brendan Nicholson
Skip to main navigation Skip to content Skip to sidebar Please enable javascript to access the full functionality of this site report Lessons in leadership: interviews with 11 of Australia's former Defence Ministers Lessons in leadership: interviews with 11 of Australia's former Defence Ministers By Brendan Nicholson In a time of growing strategic uncertainty, 11 of Australia’s former defence ministers have shared valuable lessons they learned over decades running one of the toughest...
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
aspistrategist.org.au | Justin Bassi |Alex Bristow
China has recently made two provocative military incursions into Japanese territory in just a week, with a surveillance plane breaching airspace on 26 August and a survey ship entering territorial waters on 31 August. On 5 September, Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Defence Minister Richard Marles will host their Japanese counterparts for 2+2 consultations.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
aspistrategist.org.au | Alex Bristow
The possibility of Donald Trump returning to the White House has resuscitated debate about the reliability of the US alliance, including the nuclear protection Washington extends to Australia and other allies. Whoever wins the presidential election in November, Australia needs to deepen its contribution to extended nuclear deterrence, as the US nuclear umbrella is formally known, to keep Washington engaged. As ASPI senior fellow Rod Lyon put it, assurance is a two-way street.
