Richard Tanter examines Ball’s writings on these facilities, setting them in the wider context of Ball’s work on nuclear targeting, the transnational UKUSA intelligence and security community, and the possibilities and limits of self reliance in Australian defence. Reviewing developments in US-Australian “joint facilities” in Australia in the past decade, the paper examines the asymmetrical...

This paper examines the principal policy issues, both military and non-military, surrounding the decisions to be made about Australia's future submarine capability. {C} The paper starts with a description of Australia's strategic outlook and its implications for our future force structure and then turns to the key defence, political and economic considerations involved. Professor Dibb...

For the seventh time in less than 70 years, a report has been commissioned by the Government which has dealt with concerns about the press. 1 It was sparked by public revulsion about a single action – the hacking of the mobile phone of a murdered teenager. From that beginning, the scope of the Inquiry...

This report surrounding Silicon Beach represents rare research of Australia’s start-ups to help Australian businesses and governments target their actions to support this vital sector. Imagine a rich seam of minerals under ground. We’ve poked around and we know its there: lots of value just waiting to be uncovered. Imagine too that we also know...