FDI in the News: Australia
History repeating: Australian military power in the Cocos Islands
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Author: Liam McHugh
Negotiations are underway that could see some the US military’s most advanced drone aircraft based on the Australian Indian Ocean territory of the Cocos Islands. Combined with discussions around having nuclear powered US naval craft, including submarines, regularly visiting Western Australian ports and the imminent arrival of the first company of US Marines to be based at Darwin, it is clear that Australia’s defence posture in the north is changing rapidly.
Why Argentina’s oil grab is a massive economic gamble
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Author: Liam McHugh
In mid-April, in the largest nationalisation since Russia’s acquisition of Yukos in 2003, Argentina’s President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, seized a majority stake in the oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF).
India urges Sri Lankan reconciliation with Tamils
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Presenter: Joanna McCarthy
Speakers: S.M. Krishna, Indian External Affairs Minister; Serge DeSilva Runasinghe, Research Manager for South and West Asia at the strategic think tank, Future Directions International.
See: http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/asiapac/stories/201201/s3410854.htm
2011 Nuffield International Conference
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A presentation by Major General John Hartley of Future Directions International.
Naturally, Serengeti holds answers as graziers win battle to save the land
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From: The Australian
December 01, 2011 12:00AM
Future Directions International (FDI) Chairman, General Michael Jeffery speaks with The Australian on the need to improve Australia’s farm productivity to ensure a sustainable outcome that does not degrade the landscape.
Starvation Stakes
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By Katherine Fleming, The West Australian
July 23rd, 2011
"Future conflicts in this world are probably going to be based on the water and food wars” said Maj-Gen. Michael Jeffery
Defence could protect oil, gas industry
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By Max Blenkin, AAP Defence Correspondent
June 22, 2011
The CEO of Perth-based strategic think tank Future Directions International, Major-General (rtd) John Hartley, said WA was becoming more important in terms of defence strategy.
"Things have changed greatly in Western Australia. It has become very much more in our national psyche and will be much more so within 10 years' time," he said.
"It's an area which will attract a lot more attention nationally and internationally, and therefore it's only fair that we look at the entire defence approach to that region. We are not looking just at that region, but it's a very significant part of it."
General Hartley doubted that this would result in the construction of a major new military base in the north or west.
"It's more likely to be that we will have more deployments there for training, more exercises and more assessments of what would be needed if we were to deploy people there," he said
Former Governor General warns of looming shortages
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(ABC News)
Future Directions International (FDI) Chairman, General Michael Jeffery, speaks with the ABC on the world’s impending food and water crises. This is a major research topic for FDI.
A new man on the front line
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By Brendan Nicholson, The Australian
June 2nd, 2011
Defence analyst Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe from Perth-based strategic think tank Future Directions International says Hurley and the ADF contingent performed very professionally in Somalia. "In the relative inactivity of the post-Vietnam era, the mission in Somalia was an important building block for the ADF, especially the army, which gained valuable experience in stabilisation operations that later proved useful in East Timor," he says.