David Irvine AO gave the following speech to AIIA ACT in Canberra on the 28 March 2018. His address was titled “The 2017 […]

The upcoming APEC 2018 summit serves as a reminder of the importance of the Pacific Region. China has played its political hand, and thus the pressure is on Australia to respond accordingly.

The United Nations last month officially launched a 10-year global water action plan that seeks to bring about greater progress in achieving the Sixth Sustainable Development Goal. The launch came on the eve of Cape Town’s forecasted ‘Day Zero,’ when it was predicted that the city would run out of fresh water.

On 8-10 April 2018, the 4th Indonesia-Australia Dialogue was held in Barangaroo, Sydney. The focus of the dialogue was on the role of […]

From 19-23 March 2018, eleven participants, including academic and political analysts, university lecturers, young professionals and a former ambassador, participated in the 2018 […]

As Cambridge Analytica is placed under the spotlight concern and attention has been focused largely on the issues of privacy. However, the true core of the issue is not that a third party held the private data of millions of individuals, but that they created a psychological warfare weapon capable of potentially threatening democracy.