The Australian Defence Force is facing a major shortfall as it tries to boost personnel numbers. Could generous housing policies unlock a flood of new recruits?
Defence Minister Richard Marles sidestepped questions about whether permanent residents from autocracies such as China would be allowed to serve in the ADF.
Australia belongs to an alphabet soup of international groupings like ANZUS,AUKUS,the Quad and so on. One of the most important,yet difficult to categorise,is the Five Eyes
ASIO boss Mike Burgess also took the rare step of rebuking China even as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese prepares to visit later this year.
In “cyber persistence theory”,winning hackers don’t dominate or coerce their enemies,as they would with military arms. They instead take the initiative and restructure the landscape.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said the government was “not going to be shy” about calling out state-sponsored hacking campaigns.
The Australian Federal Police has had no response after providing detailed intelligence on those it believes were behind last year’s devastating privacy breach.
Australia’s Five Eyes allies have strongly called out Chinese influence operations even as the AFP strikes a more cautious note.
Pacific Islanders should be allowed to serve in the ADF to boost numbers,military experts say,while Andrew Hastie backed it as a pathway to citizenship.
Australia’s regional proximity to the world’s greatest conflicts means that complacency regarding our security is redundant and increasingly dangerous.
From interrogating locals at his parents’ shop to filming interviews from a camera on an ironing board,the Lebanese ‘outsider’ is a study in seizing the day.