Peter Jennings

Peter Jennings is director of Strategic Analysis Australia and was executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute from 2012 to 2022. He is a former deputy secretary for strategy in the Defence Department (2009-12).

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. NOVEMBER 15, 2023: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese departs Canberra to attend the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in San Francisco, USA from 15 - 17 November 2023.. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Labor adrift in a sea of foreign policy impotence

The Albanese government ends 2023 adrift on national security and foreign policy, like the HMAS Toowoomba in the Sea of Japan a few weeks ago, propellers snarled and hostile forces looming.

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Concoction of platitudes: PMs’ Gaza statement simply moral posturing

There was a time when governments in Australia, Canada and NZ prided themselves that their global pronouncements carried weight. No more.

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Deputy prime minister Richard Marles at the Rolls Royce factory in Raynesway, Derby, England after viewing the first “articles” of the nuclear reactor that will be built as a module and fitted inside the AUKUS submarines on Friday November 3, 2023. Picture: Jacquelin Magnay

A glimpse of things to come as AUKUS hastens slowly

Welcome to the burlesque theatre of AUKUS co-operation, where momentous events can be glimpsed – or then again maybe not – through the opaque language of defence media statements.

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Australia has lost its strategic authority at APEC

Australian leaders have intelligently used APEC for much of the group’s 30-year history to assert our own strategic leadership credentials. This approach is not on display in 2023.

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Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during the opening ceremony of the 6th China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai on November 5, 2023. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)

Pandas, lobsters and turkey talk push security to the side

The emphasis on pandas, parties and photo opportunities undercuts what should be a more sober assessment of the risks China presents to Indo-Pacific security.

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TOPSHOTSA Palestinian tunnel worker speaks to a colleague from inside a smuggling tunnel dug beneath the Gaza-Egypt border in the southern Gaza Strip on August 27, 2013. Egyptian security forces have stepped up a crackdown campaign on smuggling tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip since July, Hamas officials said. AFP PHOTO/SAID KHATIB

What Israel’s Gaza ground invasion may look like

As the IDF prepares for a ground offensive that could include lethal house-to-house fighting in Gaza, previous operations against Hamas offer crucial clues.

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Labor goes to water in strategic test of will against China

Anthony Albanese won’t tackle the hard calls needed to strengthen our security – such as cancelling China’s Port of Darwin lease – for the sake of a drama-free Beijing trip.

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Shepparton has Victoria's second largest indigenous population.

If voice fails, diplomatic verdict on PM will be swift

In the event of a Yes win, our international partners will want to know the details about how the voice will work – the answer to that question is we don’t even know.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare shake hands at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China July 10, 2023. cnsphoto via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT.

Beijing’s neighbourhood ties signal critical moment in regional security

The dirty secret of Australia’s approach to defence is that it’s just a political axis of cheapness, big talk and free riding. Beijing knows that, so does the Solomons’ Sogavare, and so do we.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWIRE Photos JULY 28, 2023: United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III Picture: NCA NewsWIRE / John Gass

AUSMIN talks expose blind spots in our defence

Thanks to government and Defence management failures, Richard Marles knows almost nothing can be done to significantly up-gun the ADF within the decade.

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