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WEB25 Sep 2024 | Jocelinn Kang and Jessie Jacob. Australia has an opportunity to strengthen its position as a regional digital hub in the Indo-Pacific, as the submarine cable industry undergoes a transformation. Capitalising on this chance will take strategic focus and decisive action. …. ASPI's analysis and commentary site.
A sovereign Australian government data framework | The ... - The …
WEBAug 11, 2021 · The federal government set an example for state and territory counterparts in early June when it announced that all relevant government data under the Digital Transformation Agency’s hosting certification framework will soon need to be stored only in either ‘certified assured’ or ‘certified strategic’ data centres.. The government’s move follows concerns about the acute data ...
Nathan Ruser Archive | The Strategist
WEB2 Mar 2020 | Vicky Xiuzhong Xu, Danielle Cave, James Leibold, Kelsey Munro and Nathan Ruser. Forced labour and the abusive practices of the ‘re-education camps’ in China’s Xinjiang region are being exported to major factories across the country, implicating both global brands and the hundreds of millions of consumers (including ….
Why ASEAN’s Indo-Pacific outlook matters | The Strategist
WEBAug 12, 2019 · After more than a year of deliberation, ASEAN adopted the ‘ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific’ on 23 June. The outlook then got an airing at the ASEAN Regional Forum meetings in Bangkok. The document ‘provides a guide for ASEAN’s engagement in the Asia–Pacific and Indian Ocean regions’ and resembles an Indonesian-conceived plan.
Australian Signals Directorate will need to be flexible to staff its ...
WEBIn July, the Australian Signals Directorate launched REDSPICE, a $10 billion initiative to grow its workforce by 1,900 people over the next decade across the range of the agency’s capabilities and supporting functions.To meet this aspiration, however, ASD will have to contend with many of the workforce challenges that face all defence sector employers, and most employers of technology ...
Australia needs a new strategy to deal with illicit drug use
WEBFeb 25, 2019 · A strong drug strategy must include both action against illegal activity and a robust harm-reduction model that targets areas of greatest risk. As evidenced by recent record drug overdose deaths, this is a wake-up call that our drug strategy must be capable of responding as conditions change. The current drug strategy is aimed mainly at ice ...
AUSMIN 2022: integrated deterrence - The Strategist
WEBAUSMIN 2022 offers an opportunity to direct our bilateral efforts to be optimised under coherent, complementary and tailored deterrence strategies. Those efforts need to include political messaging, geoeconomic and technology strategy and cooperation, high-level integrated military planning and military capability investment (moving to some co ...
Hugh White’s plan for defending Australia simply isn’t viable
WEBJul 4, 2019 · How to defend Australia sets out four strategic objectives for Australian forces: defending the continent, securing the neighbourhood, supporting maritime Southeast Asia and preserving the wider Asian balance.. To achieve this, Hugh White proposes a maritime denial strategy to stop adversaries—including a great power like China—from being able to send military forces to attack Australia.
Defending democracies from disinformation and cyber-enabled …
WEBApr 22, 2021 · Defending democracies from disinformation and cyber-enabled foreign interference. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused unique societal stress as governments worldwide and their citizens have struggled to work together to contain the virus and mitigate its economic impact. This has been a trying time for …
Keep looking up: Australia’s next steps in space surveillance
WEBMar 2, 2022 · Keep looking up: Australia’s next steps in space surveillance. Australia’s role in critical space domain awareness (SDA) is becoming a major mission for the defence force. Australia has long provided a ‘suitable piece of real estate’ as part of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing community and through the 2014 Combined Space Operations ...