Several recent events have brought national defence into the public debate in Australia ahead of a federal election. These include the continued difficulty with recruiting…
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Author Archives: Michael Webster
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An office of national research: a new instrument of national power
When we cast our gaze across our island, where do we find the sources of our national power? How do we ensure that our fate…
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Is antisemitism a canary in the cage?
Australian Jews have realised what European Jews fatally learnt in the late 1930s: that charity and philanthropy, that good citizenship, will be ungratefully received by…
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The tyranny of short strategy
We wrote an article for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute on the repeated failure of Australian governments to fully draw upon the knowledge outside the…
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Losing the insight of Australia’s myriad non-government security experts
Knowledge does not thrive when it is centralized or confined. In its dispersed nature, knowledge encourages liberty and is the source of societal and material…
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Not to fear the dynamic discursive that must necessarily accompany intellectual progress
A wonderful interview by ‘The Digital Insurgency’ with Dr Marigold Black. Only Dr Black could find a way of mentioning the private correspondence of members…