Opinion

Trump effect on Australia

What will Trump 2.0 mean for Australia? What will China do? But there are two similar questions to ask: what should and what will Trump mean for Australia and our region? Michael Pascoe with his answers. The short answer to the […]

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ASPI: Drumming up business

Having just revealed it raked in a record $16 million in cash last financial year the Australian Strategic Policy Institute is apparently making good by marching to the beat of its new Defence Minister Peter […]

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Diplomacy by Australian means

19th Century Prussian general, Carl von Clausewitz called war “the continuation of politics by other means.” With the enthusiastic blessing of his God-fearing prime minister, Defence Minister Peter Dutton has sidelined the diplomats and put […]

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Failure to legislate

Public policy making is failing in Australia, “Yes Minister” was once code for senior civil servants to implement policies, now it’s code for the bureaucracy to remember they are political servants not public servants 16 […]

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Morrison spins as Paris burns

Our prime minister’s decision to humiliate the French President and then cast Emmanuel Macron’s response as a ‘sledge’ on all Australians is a ploy straight out of the Donald Trump playbook; but, Bruce Haigh writes, […]

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Caged community

The Lowy Institute’s latest report, “Lines Blurred: Chinese Community Organisations in Australia”, does more to fence in the Chinese community than it does to liberate them from suspicion and institutional bias for which there is […]

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Cop that China!

With European leaders questioning the integrity of Australia’s leader on strategic issues, Nury Vittachi says the mainstream media has stepped up to once again put China in its place as the world’s biggest environmental villain […]

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Who is following ASPI?

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has more than 100,000 social media followers yet averages around only ten engagements per post. Is its online engagement real or just another piece of weapons maker and foreign government-funded […]

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Nuclear option on Pacific diplomacy

Pacific nations have long-standing reasons to be wary of all things nuclear. Max Hayton examines the Australian government high-handedly joining a deal to send nuclear-powered submarines patrolling the region, without consulting our Pacific neighbours. 27 […]

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ASPI now officially annoying

In keeping with its claims of “independence” the cashed up Australian Strategic Policy Institute decides it is best placed to write its own history 26 October 2021 | Marcus Reubenstein Winston Churchill, whose once mighty […]