Join us next Wednesday to hear how 🇦🇺can strengthen its #IndianOcean engagement.

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-Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs Tim Watts MP
-Jennifer Parker (@NSC_ANU, UNSW Canberra)
-Jack Corbett (@MonashUni)
-Dr. Lailufar Yasmin (Dhaka University)
-Marc Purcell (@ACFID)

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Seeking to understand why the state tolerates persistent violence against women I took a look at the social contract – the implicit bargain we make with the state for security, but one that has a secondary bargain with men. Zoe Daniel MP (she/her) Kate Fitz-Gibbon
grantwyeth.com/p/domestic-vio…

Frequently on The Rest Is Politics podcast ALASTAIR CAMPBELL and Rory Stewart advocate for proportional representation for the UK's democracy. Here I make the case that preferential voting like in Australia is far better suited to Westminster systems.

grantwyeth.com/p/the-rest-are…

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Join us on 30 April, 1-2pm (AEST) for the launch of a new AP4D paper looking on how Australia can use all tools of #statecraft in the information environment.

Speakers include Ambassador Brendan Dowling Ambassador for Cyber Affairs & Critical Technology.

Register via Zoom at us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

The ABC News are doing a fantastic job with these Indian election preview segments. Providing the Australian public with a much more in depth understanding of the country and its politics.

youtube.com/watch?v=iPMsY8…

Great to see #AP4D 's recent paper on what a whole-of-nation approach to international policy looks like referenced in Asia Society Australia CEO Anthony Bubalo's recent piece in Financial Review on 'The case for comprehensive #statecraft '.

🔗Read the article at afr.com/policy/foreign….

'Perfection is impossible, but virtue is a purpose all its own. And it’s that pursuit of virtue, not mere achievement (and certainly not resentment), that ultimately defines who we are.'

This is a much wider piece than the headline suggests

nytimes.com/2024/04/14/opi…

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Join us for the launch of a new AP4D paper looking at how Australia can strengthen its #IndianOcean engagement & contribute to regional stability & prosperity across all tools of #statecraft .

📅Wed 24 April
⏰2-3pm AEST
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Seeking to understand why the state tolerates persistent violence against women I took a look at the social contract – the implicit bargain we make with the state for security, but one that has a secondary bargain with men. Zoe Daniel MP (she/her) Kate Fitz-Gibbon
grantwyeth.com/p/domestic-vio…

Excellent essay

Frequently on The Rest Is Politics podcast ALASTAIR CAMPBELL and Rory Stewart advocate for proportional representation for the UK's democracy. Here I make the case that preferential voting like in Australia is far better suited to Westminster systems.

grantwyeth.com/p/the-rest-are…

'Which leads to a question of what incentives that states now have to address violence against women?What if the state consciously saw its own capabilities through the capabilities of women? Would the state then take women’s security seriously?' Brilliant as usual by Grant Wyeth!

A new essay of mine on the social contract and domestic violence – the state's attempts to limit men's public violence by containing it within the household. Can a new social contract emerge that rejects this brutal bargain?

grantwyeth.com/p/domestic-vio…

In my latest piece for The Diplomat I've connected one of my major bugbears – the terrible design of Melbourne's trams – to Australia's international influence. And how this reflects a culture that makes developing a more complex economy more difficult

thediplomat.com/2024/03/does-u…

A good overview of Finland's defence perspective and preparedness by Paul Wells (who looks to have left this site). Last year I got the opportunity to go down into the civilian defence shelters in Helsinki. The Finns don't do things by halves

paulwells.substack.com/p/finland-digs…

“I often say Al Capone, he was one of the greatest of all time, if you like criminals,” Mr. Trump said in December. It was an interesting framing: “if you like criminals”? Mr. Trump has a hunch, and it’s more than just projection, that many Americans do.'

nytimes.com/2024/03/25/opi…

'It’s up to each of us to scrutinise the beliefs we’ve absorbed from our social milieu to ensure that our values and political commitments are what we truly think they should be — that our beliefs are based on sound reasons rather than brute social forces'
nytimes.com/2024/03/24/opi…

We share the Philippines’ serious concerns about dangerous conduct by China’s vessels adjacent to Second Thomas Shoal today. This is part of a pattern of deeply concerning behaviour. UNCLOS is the basis for peace and stability in the South China Sea.