Ten predictions for 2025 — a defining year for security
Much in 2025 depends on the character of the Trump administration. One thing is a certainty: this will be a year of living with danger.
Peter Jennings
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The potential lone wolves hiding in plain sight on our streets
Angry individuals of the so-called pro-Palestinian protest movement are ripe for radicalisation. They have been given free rein to conduct their increasingly threatening and illegal behaviour on our streets for nearly two years. It has to stop.
Our complacency puts us at risk
Is Australia any better placed in a tactical sense to stop or respond to vehicle attacks like we have seen in New Orleans? Absolutely not.
Job done for China’s ambassador — but 2025 will be much harder
Ambassador Xiao would be well advised to leave at the high point of delivering some of Beijing’s 14 grievances. It is going to get much harder for Australia to occupy the feel-good middle ground in 2025.
Varghese review will kill off fair, open policy debate
The bureaucracy never wanted ASPI. Now they have a government glass-jawed enough in temperament and dull enough in imagination to let the Institute die a death from slow strangulation.
Momentous shift in Middle East power to follow Assad demise
The patchwork of tribal loyalties and alliances that comprised ‘Assad’s Syria’ is gone, but what comes next?
When synagogues start burning it’s hard to ‘cherish’ social cohesion
Labor’s anti-Israel position has evolved beyond any rational calculation of domestic politics or foreign policy. It is instead scratching a far-left ideological itch.
PM fiddles while anti-Semitic hatred burns
We need the kind of leadership that sets moral standards with decisive action, not that equivocates in the face of violence.
PM’s precarious US-China juggling is about to reach its use by date
Albanese wants to create the impression that he will, to quote his favourite phrase, ‘disagree where we must’ with China, but this belies his overall deference to Xi.
Rudd dilemma should’ve been resolved long ago — it’s too late now
Kevin Rudd should’ve reached out directly to Trump, starting in 2023, to clear the air about his very sharp criticisms of him. The sin is less about the sharp words than seeking to make amends. It’s too late now.
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