Past events
Australia’s maritime frontier conflicts, 1802-1918
There’s a blind spot in our vision of Australian frontier conflict, and it has been more than fifty years since John M.R. Young observed that early British lodgements in eastern Australia had two...
WIIS: Shaping Australia’s Role in Indo-Pacific Security in the Next Decade
Frances Adamson has led the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as Secretary since 25 August 2016. From 2011 to 2015, Ms Adamson was Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China...
Why Australia Needs a Radically New Defence Policy
Australia faces a potentially dangerous strategic outlook, which requires radical changes to the country’s defence policy. For the first time since the Second World War, there is now the prospect...
The Tokyo Tribunal — 70th Anniversary of the Judgment on Japan’s War Leaders
At the post-war Tokyo Tribunal, the Allied powers charged Japanese leaders with waging aggressive war and committing war crimes against prisoners-ofwar and civilians. This trial, presided over by...
Death of Huawei's 5G bid: Technological Entanglement & Information Security
The Australian Government has just effectively banned Huawei from participating in the building of the country’s next-generation 5G mobile network.
A joint media release by the...
The Kibeho Massacre, 1995 – what happened and why?
In April 1995, elements of the Rwandan People’s Army, while closing a large internally displaced person’s camp at Kibeho in south-west Rwanda, opened fire on its inhabitants. The United Nations...
SDSC War Studies Seminar: An Australian Band of Brothers
In his most recent book, An Australian Band of Brothers, Dr Mark Johnston tells the story of Don Company of the 2/43rd Australian Infantry Battalion – part of the 9th Division, which sustained...
Security in Northeast Asia: Looking forward to the next two decades
Northeast Asia is the most dynamic economic region of the world and one of its most geopolitically sensitive and troubled. The recent breakthroughs of the inter-Korean summits and (putative at the...
Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors: Australia and the Threat from the Soviet Union in the Cold War and Russia Today
Paul Dibb’s book is a unique Cold War memoir that gives insights into how Australia saw the threat from the Soviet Union in terms of both national intelligence assessments and ASIO’s operations...
Unravelling the Inter-Korean Summit
LIVESTREAMED from 3.45pm Mon 30th April
If you missed out on a ticket to this sold out event, don’t worry, you can watch it on Facebook Live - livestreamed on our ANU Coral Bell School...
