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The uninvited guest: CIA director visits Moscow

CIA Director John Ratcliffe flies into Moscow for an unannounced visit.  
Canberra bets against China while banking on its trade

Australia is arming against China while remaining economically dependent on the very power it is ...  
The Tampa crisis: 25 years on

It was winter 2001 when the Tampa hullabaloo blew up: the watershed moment when decent agreement ...  
AUKUS offers Australia a nuclear solution to climate change

Australia’s embrace of AUKUS exposes the absurdity of prioritising militarisation while the far ...  
Big Tech tightens its grip on Australia’s undersea cables

As Google and Meta expand their control of vital undersea infrastructure, Australia risks surre ...  
AUKUS: Its single point of obsolescence

Australia could find itself without a credible undersea force due to the capability gap between ...  
Israeli pressure fails to sway Labor on Gaza

Despite diplomatic lobbying from the Israeli embassy, Labor delegates rejected efforts to dilute ...  
Close Pine Gap protesters challenge Australia's U.S. alliance

Protesters are renewing calls to close Pine Gap as criticism grows over the secretive facility' ...  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — A tale of three conferences

Three Adelaide conferences expose the competing visions for Australia's future, from militarisa ...  
Independent AUKUS Inquiry ramps up pressure on Labor

An independent AUKUS inquiry is raising fresh questions over the project's cost, purpose and Labo ...  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — The 1984 warning: Why the AUKUS debate cannot be silenced

Looking back at Labor's 1984 U.S. alliance battles, it's more important than ever the party doe ...  
Labor's progressive patriotism collides with AUKUS

Labor's attempt to frame AUKUS as an expression of progressive patriotism raises difficult ques ...  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — The path to peace requires investment in conflict prevention

Australia cannot build lasting security through militarisation alone. Real peace demands sustained ...  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — Why parliament must decide before Australia goes to war

Sending Australians to war should require a vote of parliament, not the stroke of a minister's ...  
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 ...  
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