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After Ukraine a fractured and unravelling global order will confront the next Australian government

10 May 2022 Mike Scrafton Australian focus

Putin’s forces might not progress far beyond the Dnieper River. And yet the invasion will reshape the world in which the next Australian government operates.

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Magical thinking: nuclear submarines and Australia’s Maginot Line of the imagination

6 October 2021 Mike Scrafton Australian focus

The prospect of nuclear powered submarines has generated a lot of magical thinking in defence and strategic policy circles. But the incontrovertible fact is that submarines that don’t exist cannot either defend or deter.

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The NATO communique highlights Europe’s strategic concern: Russia

25 June 2021 Mike Scrafton Global

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison might have gone to Europe with the Indo-Pacific region “is the epicentre of renewed strategic competition” mantra on his lips, but the NATO communique reflects the reality that it is Russia, not China, that fills Europe’s strategic horizon.

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France 24 Debate: Trouble ahead? Russia, US in Black Sea showdown over Ukraine

17 April 2021 Online editor Analysis and comment, International relations, Video and podcasts

France24’s nightly show, The Debate, hosted by François Picard and with guests Julian Nundy, Lyudmyla Tautiyeva, Brian Taylor, Mark Sleboda, tackles the issues around the tensions on the Russia-Ukraine border, in a program that went to air on 14 April 2021.

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Latest: Climate Crisis

On climate change, Australia’s PM pins hopes on complacency or ignorance of voters

7 February 2022

In the 2022 election, too much is at stake for Australians to be duped into thinking that they ”remain well prepared for the future”, and into believing that everything can be fixed by unregulated economic growth.

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Global warming: the nine essential questions for candidates at election 2022

13 January 2022

Trends in Australia’s emissions growth are disturbing. What questions should be put to the political classes who aspire to take on the responsibility for the wellbeing, welfare, prosperity and security of Australian citizens?

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About Mike Scrafton

Mike Scrafton is a regularly-published writer on Australian and international affairs. Read more about Mike here.

Most read this week

  • An American theocracy: the advance of Christian nationalism 26 January 2021
  • What’s the role of hydrogen in the clean energy transition? (UCS) 29 December 2020
  • A critique of Australia’s SEA1000 Future Submarine project – from the outside 8 February 2020
  • Global warming: the nine essential questions for candidates at election 2022 13 January 2022
  • Divided we stand: Democrats and Republicans diverge on US foreign policy (Chicago Council) 14 October 2020

Most read in the last year

  • An American theocracy: the advance of Christian nationalism 26 January 2021
  • Once was a hegemon: Australia and the decline of the US 3 June 2021
  • The warning that wasn’t: Robert Gottliebsen’s warning to the Australian nation on the Future Submarines 19 February 2020
  • Australia’s foreign policy: Resurgent realism or the survival of multilateralism? 5 July 2020
  • What’s the role of hydrogen in the clean energy transition? (UCS) 29 December 2020

Disclaimer

Mike’s writing is not published with his permission on any profit-making websites, blogs or forums associated with profit-making business entities. Mike has no current association with any commercial organisation. He is a completely independent writer, derives no income from his writing, and does not endorse the products or services of any business entity.

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