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7 July 2020
Public Sector Informant: Disconnect with industries shows there’s not a strategic bone in the nation’s body
As a nation with interests but not much power, Australia has produced many strategic assessments, both official and unofficial, over the years. Until relatively recently, the working assumption behind these analyses was that Australia faced no direct threat to its interests, at least none that could not be handled through our alliance with the United States....
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