The 4th Australia and Japan 1.5 Track Security Dialogue, 10-11 December 2007, Canberra. Proceedings.

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The 1.5 Track Security Dialogue is an initiative of ASPI and the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). It aims to assist the two governments to address and explore, through frank and sustained exchanges, their respective policy approaches and options on global, regional and local security issues.

Participants at this Dialogue, hosted by ASPI with the assistance of the Australian Department of Defence and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, engaged in discussions with a view to strengthening bilateral security and defence relations in support of their common interests.

Australian Defence Almanac 2008-2009

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The Almanac is a unique publication that brings together a wealth of information across the full-range of Defence activity in a single, easy-to-use reference source.

It is an up-to-date, fact-filled resource that places otherwise difficult to find Defence information at the reader’s fingertips and presents it in a transparent, highly readable form.

Chapters cover:

  • Defence and strategy looking at the constitutional and legislative basis for Defence, the military justice system, Australian strategic policy and Australia’s place in the world.
  • Australian Defence Force which covers ADF command arrangements, order of battle, equipment, arms and weapons, ordnance, platform activity levels, comparative military strength, Defence facilities, establishments and bases.
  • Department of Defence which looks at the organisation, outcomes and ouputs and management information systems.
  • People which covers personnel issues such as personnel numbers, ranks, recruiting activity, enlistments, Reserve, separations and salaries.
  • Money provides Defence outlays, comparative regional defence spending, comparative Commonwealth spending, top 30 Defence projects and top 30 Defence contractors.
  • Australia and the world considers significant treaties, conventions and agreements, Australian membership of intergovernmental bodies and international organisations.
  • Counter-terrorism covers counter-terrorism arrangements, governance structures for counter-terrorism, national terrorist situation, budget appropriations for agencies, agencies’ CT roles, terrorist organisations in Australia and terrorist incidents.

Special Report Issue 19 – All in a day’s work: Business and Australian disaster management

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This report of an Independent Task Force examines the contribution that business can make to Australian disaster management. The Task Force makes a number of important recommendations to integrate the private sector into our disaster response capabilities.

Task Force members were Anthony Bergin, Alex Candetti, Kate Carnell, Andrew Ethell, Bruce Howard, Damian McMeekin, Warren Mitchell, David Parsons, Kellie Phillips, Brian Spalding, Mark Triffitt, John Valastro, Anthony Wilson and Athol Yates.

The devil in the detail: Australia’s first National Security Statement

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This Policy Analysis, authored by Carl Ungerer and Anthony Bergin, examines the inaugural Australian National Security Statement released last Thursday by the Prime Minister. The statement goes some way to outlining the broad range of risks and threats facing Australia, but it represents only a partial strategy. At this stage, the jury must remain out on whether a number of the changes the statement suggests will work to improve our national security.