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Dec 9, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Joanne Wallis |Jack Corbett
At first blush, today’s announcement that Australia and Nauru have signed a security treaty offers something for both countries. Australia increases its influence in a region in which it feels threatened by China. Nauru receives economic assistance and reliable banking services. But important questions remain unanswered. For the past decade, Australia has been concerned about China’s ambitions in the Pacific Islands region.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
openforum.com.au | Joanne Wallis
In late November 2024, the chiefs of the Australian and New Zealand navies signed the Tasman Navy Framework, intended to formalise a “strategic dialogue for engagement” and to “advance specific combat capabilities, personnel initiatives and interoperability.” This followed the Australian and New Zealand armies signing Plan ANZAC in 2023, similarly intended to “increase capacity to operate together with a framework for engagement, enabling the two armies to exchange views and share situational...
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
internationalaffairs.org.au | Joanne Wallis
Australia and New Zealand engage in wide-ranging daily cooperation, but seldom refer to the alliance between them. Has the alliance become irrelevant? Or is it so taken-for-granted, and the habits of cooperation so entrenched, that it is seen as unnecessary to emphasise it?
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
themandarin.com.au | Melissa Coade |Julian Bajkowski |Joanne Wallis |Quentin Hanich
The federal government is making good on accelerating Australia’s long‑range strike missile acquisition over the next decade — one of six priorities identified by the 2023 Defence Strategic Review. But it comes with a hefty price tag, which civil society advocates say is in stark contrast to Australia’s aid financing. According to Pat Conroy, Australia cannot afford to let national defence strike capability and preparedness wane.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
independentaustralia.net | Jim KABLE |Rebecca Strating |Joanne Wallis
'Girt by Sea: Re-Imagining Australia's Security' is a first-rate guide for any Australian wishing to understand our current national security, writes Jim Kable. HOW REFRESHING to find such a clear-eyed and comprehensive analysis of Australia’s relationship with its neighbours and other mighty nations — and to find it uncorrupted by the ideological think tanks (think ASPI for one) and their shouty media enablers (thinking of Peter Hartcher and Matthew Knott) in this work.
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May 15, 2024 | 
blackincbooks.com.au | Rebecca Strating |Joanne Wallis
There wasn’t much to acquire at first, only the faint whiff of a book. You can put it down to the far-sighted optimism of Chris Feik. We have been working together since 2016, nudging the book into being. I spent a lot of that time trying to convince him of the merits of very short books, and he spent a lot of time patiently explaining the minimum number of pages required to glue such a thing together.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
blackincbooks.com.au | Rebecca Strating |Joanne Wallis
After the events in Fragile Creatures, I felt disconnected from the world. Writing helped me heal. The act of trying to communicate what had happened was about finding my bearings again. After a few chapters of the manuscript won the Next Chapter prize, people at the Wheeler Centre offered to help me communicate with publishers. When the book was done, a couple of publishers put in offers. Black Inc. was my first choice because their tone is admirable.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
blackincbooks.com.au | Rebecca Strating |Joanne Wallis
I have an incredible job, as a lot of what I do is reading manuscripts to assess what’s right for our list. My job is to curate our publishing schedule with the best Aussie and Kiwi titles, so I work closely with publishers, literary agents and authors to hunt down engaging, moving and award-winning titles for us to publish as audiobooks.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
openforum.com.au | Joanne Wallis
Defence diplomacy, the peaceful use of defence resources to pursue foreign and strategic policy objectives, is generally viewed as positively contributing to Australia’s statecraft, especially in the Pacific Islands region. But although it is gaining prominence in Australian debates, the concept of defence diplomacy is often not well-understood and there is scepticism about its value.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
aspistrategist.org.au | Joanne Wallis |Quentin Hanich |Michael Rose
Defence diplomacy, the peaceful use of defence resources to pursue foreign and strategic policy objectives, is generally viewed as positively contributing to Australia’s statecraft, especially in the Pacific Islands region. But although it is gaining prominence in Australian debates, the concept of defence diplomacy is often not well-understood and there is scepticism about its value.
