Director, International and Security Affairs @TheAusInstitute. Adjunct Senior Research Fellow @RMIT. Podcast: After America.
Joined June 2012
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20 May 2025
So glad to welcome back the brilliant @NickBryantNY for our *50th* episode! What even is time?
Really proud of the community we’re building with After America. And very lucky I get to do it with the best producer in @AngusBlackman.
20 May 2025
Donald Trump isn’t an aberration – he’s as much a product of US history as JFK or Barack Obama.
"Pretty much all of what he's done has an historical echo...although I was surprised about those poor penguins."
@NickBryantNY joins @EmmaShortis on the 50th After America ep. 🎧⬇️
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2 Aug 2025
BREAKING: @VictorianLabor State Conference has backed LAW's policy recommendation for:
- independent parliamentary inquiry
- suspend participation in AUKUS
- call for withdrawal from AUKUS in any inquiry
- remove AUKUS from ALP national platform
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1 Aug 2025
LAW Fringe Meeting today @VictorianLabor State Conference
viclabor.com.au/fringe-2025/…
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22 Jul 2025
Listen to the full episode on the After America podcast. Find it via the link or wherever you get your podcasts. australiainstitute.org.au/po…
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22 Jul 2025
Sign our petition calling for an independent parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS.
✍️ theaus.in/450PRtg
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22 Jul 2025
"We've got to stop having these momentous decisions taken by small groups of people in private."
@TurnbullMalcolm & @EmmaShortis discuss Australia's AUKUS disaster.
"The government sacrificed sovereignty to get security & it looks like we're going to lose both."
Link🔽 #auspol
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11 Jul 2025
Part of the AUKUS deal involves Australians crewing submarines sailing under a US flag.
If Trump decided to take the US to war, the Australian government would have to actively delay American deployment to get those Australians home.
@EmmaShortis #auspol
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11 Jul 2025
Insecurity in the US/Australia relationship explains a lot about the AUKUS submarine deal, which is a symptom rather than a cause of the relationship.
🎙 International & Security Affairs Director Dr Emma Shortis
@EmmaShortis #auspol
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10 Jul 2025
“The AUKUS submarine deal would catastrophically undermine Australia's sovereignty .”
Join @EmmaShortis and Dr Richard Denniss in MELBOURNE to hear how Australia can choose its own path to prosperity and security
📍 Uni of Melb
📅 Wed 16 July 6pm
#auspol
Get your ticket! ⏬
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26 Jun 2025
Dr @EmmaShortis joins the @Boganintelpod to discuss on Trump, US politics, and Australia’s Sovereignty.
In this clip she speaks on the mindset shift required in out political leaders to embrace an Australian sovereign future.
Full episode link:
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Spotify:open.spotify.com/episode/6bV…
YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=hDnLGQ
26 Jun 2025
“It requires a pretty significant mindset shift”
Dr @EmmaShortis on the misguided orthodoxy in politicians who believe that Australia has little global influence.
New episode:
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Spotify:open.spotify.com/episode/6bV…
Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=hDnLGQeN…
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25 Jun 2025
The @Boganintelpod is getting some flack on 'The Bolt Report', but we forge on.
So far, we have had some great guests.
This week we are having @EmmaShortis to deep dive into the political nuances of the United States, and @IRanalyst will be unpacking the developments in the Middle East.
Check out our latest episode with @leckie_cameron, talking about Australian sovereignty.
25 Jun 2025
Retired Major @leckie_cameron remarks on how Australia's lack of broader strategic context negatively defines our strategic outlook.
Full episode:
Apple:podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7lD…
YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=W7DNd3
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25 Jun 2025
"AUKUS would be the biggest transfer of Australian sovereign wealth in our history.
"And it was cooked up by a few blokes in suits and uniforms behind closed doors, sprung on the Australian people overnight."
@ebony_bennett @EmmaShortis
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25 Jun 2025
From leaking military actions to defunding research bodies, the consequences of the Trump administration are crashing around the world.
Join Dr @EmmaShortis in conversation with Dr Richard Denniss!
📍 University of Melbourne
📅 Wed 16th July 6pm
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25 Jun 2025
"We still see Australian mainstream media asking, 'What can we give him?'
'What can we give Donald Trump to make sure that he still sticks by the AUKUS deal?'"
@EmmaShortis #auspol
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23 Jun 2025
"We know what kind of situation this gets the United States into. We've seen it in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it appears that the lessons of that history just are not being learned."
@EmmaShortis on the Today Show this morning, following the US bombing Iran. #auspol
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23 Jun 2025
"We're now in a position where we are relying on Iranian restraint...That's why these attacks were always incredibly risky and unnecessary," said @EmmaShortis.
"If that regime feels cornered...then of course it's going to respond. That was always the danger."
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21 Jun 2025
Going live on The Sunday Shot with @instanterudite, @EmmaShortis, @bwolpe and @antloewenstein. Join us, instead of listening to shitty propaganda on Insiders.
youtube.com/@TheSundayShot
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19 Jun 2025
Is there any legal basis for the US entering Israel's war on Iran?
Unfortunately, @EmmaShortis explains, "the question is almost moot." #auspol
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18 Jun 2025
Listen to the full discussion on the latest episode of After America. Find it via the link or wherever you get your podcasts. theaus.in/4e6moCB
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18 Jun 2025
"The government sacrificed sovereignty to get security & it looks like we're going to lose both."
@TurnbullMalcolm lays out the problems with AUKUS.
"We've got to stop having these momentous decisions taken by small groups of people in private."
Link 🔽 #auspol @EmmaShortis
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17 Jun 2025
On AUKUS: "it's in the legislation that there is a circumstance where you will not get the submarines," said @TurnbullMalcolm.
"If plan A doesn't work...we end up with a big fat nothing."
Hear more on the latest episode of After America w/ @EmmaShortis. Link below 🔽
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