• The speaker for our next ASPI-UNISYS Defence and Security Luncheon is The Hon Gareth Evans AO, QC. He will be talking on Eliminating Nuclear Threats - A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers See details

• Latest Policy Analysis papers-
• The QDR: a future of hybrid warfare? by Ron Huisken. Read more...
• Let's test that idea - contestability of advice in the Department of Defence by Andrew Davies. Read more...
• Connecting the docs: towards an integrated national security strategy by Carl Ungerer. Read more...
  
  
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• Regional reactions to the Australian Defence White Paper 2009. This online forum contains a range of regional strategic scholars giving their assessments of Australia's recent Defence White Paper.
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• Opinion piece by Mark Thomson saying that after minimalist spending in the 1980's and 1990's, the last decade saw a bonanza for Australia's defence establishment. 
  Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Morning Herald, p6 (10/2/10)                          
• Opinion piece by Anthony Bergin saying that that the government's new counter-terrorism white paper hightlights the key role of business in Australia's response to a terrorism situation. Australian Financial Review, p63 (9/3/10)
• Opinion piece by Anthony Bergin saying that a concerted effort is needed to prevent the radicalisation of home-grown extremists. Weekend Australian, p 13 (27/2/10)
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Special Report 28 - Here to help: Strengthening the Defence role in Australian disaster management. This paper,argues that it’s time for Defence to more fully incorporate domestic disaster assistance tasks as part of its core business. More....

Special Report Issue 27 - Time for a fresh approach: Australia and Fiji relations post-abrogation. This Special Report argues that it is time for a fresh approach by the Australian Government  to prepare the grounds for a more effective re-engagement with the Government of Fiji.  More...