As the least digitised industry in the world, agriculture is on the cusp of the next technological wave with implications for investors, entrepreneurs, governments and farmers. This research brief discusses the barriers that exist in Australia that are limiting the development and the widespread diffusion of digital agriculture technologies, and therefore the maturation of the sector.
The United States Studies Centre is hosting an address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop on the challenges and opportunities Australia faces in the Indo-Pacific region.
Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman has sensationally launched a new book about her time working for President Donald Trump, accusing him of being racist, a misogynist and in mental decline.
Partisanship has become the dominant driver of social and political conflict in the United States and state-federal relations are increasingly conducted in the same vituperative style as Capitol Hill partisanship. This will have significant implications for the Trump administration’s policy agenda, according to a new research brief by Sarah Graham.
New research by Stephen Kirchner and Jared Mondschein outlines some of the national security issues raised by recent changes in the sources of foreign direct investment in Australia and the United States and recommends action on a number of fronts.
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Partisanship has become the dominant driver of social and political conflict in the United States and state-federal relations are increasingly conducted in the same vituperative style as Capitol Hill partisanship. This will have...
Innovation is about change and new thinking. You would hardly know that from the recent AFR Innovation Summit, which featured speakers making the same well-known talking points, including the self-congratulatory call that ‘Australia...
The outcome of the recent AUSMIN meeting—the annual gathering of the secretaries of state and defence from the United States and the foreign and defence ministers from Australia—was a signal of the alliance’s...
Twenty-one years ago, US president Bill Clinton stood alongside his counterpart Jiang Zemin at a press conference and brazenly told his guest that when it came to political reform and respect for human...
This report outlines some of the national security issues raised by recent changes in the sources of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Australia and the United States. The regulatory regimes for screening FDI...
Over the last week, US tech companies expelled Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist, and his site InfoWars from their platforms. Facebook and YouTube kicked him off, and Apple stripped his podcast from iTunes...
The silent and pivotal reality of today’s US politics is the continuing strength and resilience of Donald Trump’s electoral base.
Regardless of whatever controversy or fiasco engulfs the Trump White House, the base...
The space sector is undergoing rapid geostrategic, technological and industrial change and will be critical to Australian national security and economic growth in coming decades. New actors, like private commercial enterprises, are driving...
Barriers exist in Australia that are limiting the development and the widespread diffusion of digital agriculture technologies, and therefore the maturation of the sector. Overcoming these barriers by bridging the disconnect of expectations...
It might seem frivolous to point out, given the far more dramatic developments during the current administration, but President Trump is still yet to award any National Medals of Arts or National Humanities...
SBS News spoke to Associate Professor in American Politics Brendon O'Connor about the release of secretly recorded tapes of President Donald Trump speaking to former staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman. The tape shows an apparent...
USSC honorary associate Nicole Hemmer has released a new podcast that takes a deep dive into what locals dub Charlottesville's 'Summer of Hate'.
The series explores the city's history, the alt-right, and the...
In a speech to the Indo-Pacific Business Forum on 30 July, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unveiled the first new economic offerings of the Trump...
