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Government procurement could build Australia's #SovereignCapability, but there's no policy to make it happen. It's time to use our $100bn buying power strategically. Read how 👇
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AQ: Australian Quarterly | @aqjournal.bsky.social retweeted
May 19
🇦🇺 is one of the few countries providing climate modelling focused on the sth hemisphere.
Cutting climate science weakens our ability to plan for the future & risks losing sovereign expertise that will be difficult to rebuild.
We should be strengthening this capability, not winding it back.
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Why do so many government tech projects fail? Vague objectives, risk-averse processes, and focus on inputs not outcomes. The result: cost overruns and undelivered capability. Read the breakdown 👇
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AQ: Australian Quarterly | @aqjournal.bsky.social retweeted
May 7
To everyone at CSIRO: thank you for the incredible work you do on the huge challenges we face.
Ongoing job losses at our national science agency are the result of chronic underfunding.
The Government must halt and reverse the real terms decline in CSIRO's appropriation in the budget next week.
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Australia spends $100bn/year on #GovProcurement, but the track record is abysmal. Waste, failures, and missed opportunities to build sovereign capability. Read the full analysis by Peter Grant & A/Prof Matt Darling 👇
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There is an undeclared economic war being waged against Australia — through trade barriers, investment leverage, cyber operations, and supply chain pressure. Geoeconomics is now national security. #AusPol #security
Read the article in the new AQ: aq.magazine.com.au/
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83% of Australians think we should make more goods domestically, even if they cost more. Yet our manufacturing sector just fell into recession. The gap between public sentiment and policy is vast. We need to boost #resilience.
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Australia ranks 104th out of 143 countries for economic complexity — just above Côte d'Ivoire, just below Botswana. For one of the world's wealthiest nations, that's a wake-up call. #AustralianEconomy #auspol
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~30 multinationals earn ~$14bn per year from Australian government contracts. Meanwhile local firms are underpaid, locked out, and unable to build sovereign capability. Time to change the system.
All this and more in the new AQ - Subscribe: aq.magazine.com.au/
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AQ: Australian Quarterly | @aqjournal.bsky.social retweeted
Apr 14
Angus Taylor’s announcement is a desperate Coalition attempt to win back One Nation voters hellbent on blaming migrants instead of the billionaires who are actually fanning the flames of inequality.
Instead of coming up with any new ideas, they turn to racist dog whistling.
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Qatar and Australia export roughly the same amount of LNG. The Qatari government collects more than five times the revenue Australia does, says @GrogsGamut. Something has gone very wrong. #AustralianPolitics #SovereignDefence #auspol
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80–90% of Australia's petrol and diesel is imported. 90% of our medicines come from overseas. We have zero semiconductor fabrication. Marc Ablong maps the vulnerabilities — and the way forward. #AusPol
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Australia's 2024 National Defence Strategy is clear: "warning time" no longer applies. Major conflict is possible in the near term. Yet we remain a reliant, not a resilient, nation. That has to change.
See the solutions the new AQ: aq.magazine.com.au/
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Australia has the 4th largest rare earth reserves in the world yet China almost has a monopoly on rare earth extraction and processing for critical tech. The opportunity — and the urgency — could not be clearer. 🇦🇺
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The Australian Government spends $100bn a year procuring goods and services. The results? Billions wasted. Sovereign capability hollowed out. Multinationals rewarded. It's time for serious reform. #AusPol
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Australia is the least self-sufficient nation in the OECD. Our manufacturing base has collapsed. Our fuel reserves could last weeks. It's time to fund our own defence — starting with a fairer resources tax, says @GrogsGamut
🔗 See April edition preview: aips.org.au/aq-magazine/curr…
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Australia is a reliant - not a resilient - nation...in a very timely Special Edition, former high level public servants, economists & defence experts lay out a roadmap for turning our strategic vulnerabilities into economic success.
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Featuring: @GrogsGamut (Greg Jericho), Prof Sean O'Byrne, Marc Ablong, Dr Graeme Dunk and Prof Stephan Frühling, Peter Grant adn A/Prof Matt Darling
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A strait blockaded for a week & Australia is talking fuel crisis, interest rates & recession...Not the sign of a resilient country.
April AQ is a special edition on turning strategic risk into economic success.
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Do you need something beautiful today? To be transported from an uncertain world, to a world of ice and wonder? In a blast from the past, listen to Prof Emma Johnston's 'Ode to Antarctica' - originally published in AQ. She is greatly missed.
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