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FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — The AUKUS illusion and the death of statecraft

The AUKUS pact has prioritised military spending over diplomacy and statecraft.  
Digital sovereignty and the danger of the off switch

Australia's future should not depend on the goodwill of any single foreign government or comp ...  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — The myth of American idealism

Noam Chomsky and Nathan J Robinson challenge the mythology of American exceptionalism and its ...  
From Crimea to AUKUS: How distant wars reshape Australia

From colonial forts to nuclear submarines, Australia's response to distant conflicts reveals a re ...  
Sovereignty surrendered: U.S. firm Palantir invited into the engine room of ADF

Defence software sovereignty is outsourced to U.S. firm Palantir in a $7.6 million limited tender ...  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — Australia's struggle for strategic independence

Australia's security lies not in deeper military dependence, but in investing in genuine sove ...  
AUKUS Public Inquiry lays bare a pact built on false promises

The AUKUS Public Inquiry is exposing the strategic, economic and sovereignty costs of Australia ...  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — The $368 billion question: What AUKUS is really costing us

Australia's promised AUKUS jobs boom comes at an extraordinary cost, with billions flowing over ...  
AUKUS Inquiry must welcome every side of the debate

To shape the national conversation, the AUKUS Inquiry must be seen as open, balanced and willing ...  
Gina is generous with other people's money

Gina Rinehart's plan for Australia is a holy trinity of sorts: microchips, Elon Musk’s comm ...  
After Pauline Hanson, Richard Marles makes more sense

Richard Marles' warning that xenophobia weakens Australia's strategic relationships took on new si ...  
AUKUS: Australia's $368 billion boondoggle

Scott Morrison’s economy-crippling AUKUS boondoggle cost $368 billion for eight nuclear subma ...  
Investigating the foolish: The AUKUS Public Inquiry is announced

A crowdfunded public inquiry into AUKUS is set to examine the submarine pact's costs, risks and ...  
AUKUS: Australia gets what America can spare

Australia's AUKUS submarine plan is being reshaped by American and British constraints, rai ...  
Chamberlain won the Battle of Britain — and saved Australia too?

What premium is Australia paying today, and for a capability that arrives – if it arrives – in ...  
The next war is about compute — and Australia isn’t ready

Relying on global cloud providers and having no national strategy, what could possibly go wrong ...  
We trade with Asia yet our strategic priorities do not reflect it

Australia’s economic reality is anchored in Asia, but its strategic imagination is not keeping ...  
Poise without pedigree: Why Australia needs Nancy Mitford at the Strait of Malacca

It may be worth remembering in troubled geopolitical times that older societies knew how to ...  
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