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Wong Names Eight Career Officials to Key Diplomatic Posts as Canberra Refreshes Global Network
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has announced eight new senior diplomatic appointments across Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, the Pacific and APEC, in a reshuffle that quietly reveals where Canberra sees its foreign policy pressure points. The new appointments are: Wong described the appointees as “experienced career officials”, and that is the…
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Rebuilding Rather Than Complaining: Reflections from the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship
By David Maywald Over three days in late June, I joined around 4,000 delegates from more than 100 countries at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London. Among them were 1,000 young leaders under the age of 35; a striking reminder that this isn’t simply a gathering of established thinkers, but an investment…
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Defence’s 184-Page Blueprint: Can Australia Actually Build the Military Industrial Base It Says It Needs?
By Michael Keating | Inside Canberra Australia has released what is arguably its most detailed defence industry blueprint ever produced. Spread across 184 pages—a 106-page Defence Industry Development Strategy, a 78-page technical annex, and supporting fact sheets—the documents represent a fundamental rethink of how Australia intends to design, build, maintain and export military capability over the coming decade.…