Tag: Australia

AUSTRALIA – States can take the lead fixing Australia’s energy strategy through green hydrogen (Sung-Young Kim, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/22/states-can-take-the-lead-fixing-australias-energy-strategy-through-green-hydrogen/

AUSTRALIA – What Australia’s intelligence community wants for Christmas: a secure private cloud (Michael Shoebridge, The Strategist)

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/what-australias-intelligence-community-wants-for-christmas-a-secure-private-cloud/

AUSTRALIA/DATA – Devolved data centre decisions: Opportunities for reform? (Gill Savage and Anne Lyons, ASPI)

Data has been referred to as the ‘new oil’ or ‘new gold’, but it’s more than that. Most organisations can’t function without it. That...

AUSTRALIA/CHINA – The influence environment (Alex Joske , Lin Li , Alexandra Pascoe & Nathan Attrill, ASPI)

In the past two decades, Australia’s Chinese-language media landscape has undergone fundamental changes that have come at a cost to quality, freedom of speech,...

AUSTRALIA/SOVEREIGN DEFENCE INDUSTRY – Cutting-edge simulation facility planned for Townsville (David Burke, The Strategist)

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/cutting-edge-simulation-facility-planned-for-townsville/

AUSTRALIA – Defence risks explosion in external workforce costs (Marcus Hellyer, The Strategist)

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/defence-risks-explosion-in-external-workforce-costs/

AUSTRALIA/COVID19/SUPPLY CHAINS/SOVEREIGN CAPABILITY – What the coronarvirus crisis has taught us about supply chains and sovereign capability (Anthony Bergin, ASPI)

The supply chain vulnerabilities exposed by the pandemic have important lessons for other types of emergencies. https://www.aspi.org.au/opinion/what-coronarvirus-crisis-has-taught-us-about-supply-chains-and-sovereign-capability  

AUSTRALIA – What is the effect of Australia’s new foreign relations law? (Melissa Conley Tyler, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/12/what-is-the-effect-of-australias-new-foreign-relations-law/

AUSTRALIA/GOOGLE/FACEBOOK – In partial victory, Google and Facebook win Australia concession (Al Jazeera)

Google and Facebook Inc. won a key concession in Australia as the government unveiled details of a world-first law to force the digital giants...

AUSTRALIA/CHINA BELT AND ROAD – New law allows Australia to scrap China Belt and Road plans (Al Jazeera)

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has new powers to veto or scrap agreements that state governments reach with foreign powers under laws that could stymie...

CHINA/AUSTRALIA – Australian coal workers to suffer economic pain, more acutely (Global Times)

Photo: Xinhua Recent market attention over whether coal will be the next commodity to be impacted by the precipitating deterioration of China-Australia relations is understandable....

AUSTRALIA/AFGHANISTAN – Australian war crimes and racist fantasies in Afghanistan (Sahar Ghumkhor, Al Jazeera)

Last week the distressing details of a four-year inquiry into the Australian Defence Force’s war crimes in Afghanistan were finally released to the public....

AUSTRALIA/CHINA – Australia’s trade war with China is unwinnable for both countries (Shiro Armstrong, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/01/australias-trade-war-with-china-is-unwinnable-for-both-countries/