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Australia needs a coastguard to meet modern maritime threats
25 November 2024 | Jennifer Parker *Originally published in The Strategist on 25 November 2024 Image: HMAS Larrakia in Darwin Harbour:...
What New Zealand's loss of a ship underlines about Australia's hollow naval preparedness
14 October 2024 | Jennifer Parker *Originally published in the Australian Financial Review on 14 October 2024 The loss of a New Zealand...
The Black Sea battle: Learning the right maritime lessons from Ukraine
11 October 2024 | Jennifer Parker *Originally published in Lowy's the Interpreter on 11 October 2024 Ukraine’s effective strategy in the...
A volatile world demands a rethink of national defence
4 October 2024 | Jennifer Parker *Originally published in The Australian on 4 October 2024 Image: This picture shows projectiles being...
Australia’s insurance policy: AUKUS Pillar I provides ‘bang for buck’
28 August 2024 | Jennifer Parker *Originally published with the United States Studies Centre on 28 August Breaking down the figures of...
Indonesian deal a step forward, but let’s not overstep the mark
27 August 2024 | Jennifer Parker *Originally published in The Australian on 27 August 2024 Image: Indonesian Defence Minister and...
Australia needs to step up in the western Indian Ocean
22 August 2024 | Jennifer Parker *Originally published in the Strategist on 23 August 2024. Image: HMAS Darwin replenishing from USNS...
Interoperability: The missing link in Indo-Pacific security
August 16 2024 | Jennifer Parker * Originally published in Lowy's the Interpreter on 16 August. Settling on a definition of an overused...
Next AUSMIN needs to turn alignment into outcomes
Jennifer Parker | 9 August 2024 *Originally published in the Australian Financial Review on 9 August 2024 2024 AUSMIN moved away from...
Australia goes missing as Red Sea crisis deepens
22 July 2024 | Jennifer Parker *Originally published in the Australian Financial Review on 22 July 2024 The Houthis have been remarkably...
There is no catastrophic failure of AUKUS Plan A
4 July 2024 | Jennifer Parker *Originally published in the Australian Financial Review on Friday 5 July The “optimal pathway” may not run...
Response to Professor Hugh White's 'Fatal Shores: AUKUS is a grave mistake'*
*Published in Australian Foreign Affairs Issue 20 Feb 24 June 2024 | Jennifer Parker **Originally published in Australian Foreign Affairs...
Time to promote a woman as deputy chief of Navy
21 June 2024 | Jennifer Parker *Originally published in the Australian Financial Review on 21 June 2024 The officer second in charge of...
Urgent need: It’s time to address the maritime security challenge
8 June 2024 | Jennifer Parker *Originally published in The Australian on 8 June 2024 Image: HMAS Warramunga. Defence Images Australia is...
The threats and opportunities drawing Australia to the Indian Ocean
31 May 24 | Jennifer Parker & Grant Wyeth *Originally published in the ANU Policy Brief on 31 May 24. While the Government’s recent...
Here are the facts about Australia’s nuclear submarine program
28 May | Jennifer Parker *Originally published in the Australian Financial Review on 28 May 2024 It is not an alliance of mutual...
China’s grim pattern in South China Sea needs a collective response
May 10, 2024 | Jennifer Parker *Originally published in the Australian Financial Review on Saturday 10 May A quiet tussle is going on...
Minimise capability gap while waiting for the new fleet to surface
6 May 2024 | Jennifer Parker *Originally published in the Australian Financial Review on Friday 2 May Ten years from now, Australia will...
Defence strategy fills gaps but misses holes
April 18, 2024 | Jennifer Parker *Originally published in the Australian Financial Review 17 April 2024 We need to move towards a wider conversation around national security, mobilisation, and be clear on the vulnerability in our capabilities until the late 2030s. Image: Defence Minister Richard Marles at the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra discussing the first National Defense Strategy and attendant Integrated Investment Program 17 April 2024. The launch of the
No pot of gold: Understanding Defence’s Integrated Investment Program
April 12, 2024 | Jennifer Parker *Originally published in The Strategist on 12 April 2024 Image: Hunter-class frigate: BAE Systems. Almost a year ago, the Defence Strategic Review (DSR) set homework for the Department of Defence, including reprioritising the country’s rolling plan for military capability spending, the Integrated Investment Program (IIP). That update is now nearly due. But we should not assume that the government can address defence funding problems by shift