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    Home Affairs and intelligence review

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    1
    Home Affairs change driven by manifest need
    Alan Dupont
    2
    National security changes – Australian style
    Clive Williams
    3
    From ONA to ONI: Getting closer to the original plan
    Geoff Miller
    4
    The Australian Intelligence tradition
    Allan Gyngell
    5
    Australian intelligence reforms: ‘Ain’t broke’ can still be improved
    David Irvine
    6
    Separating out important intelligence reforms from Home Affairs
    John Blaxland
    7
    Politics and policy meet in new Home Affairs Department
    Geoff Kitney
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    South Pacific Fragile States

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    A Wary Embrace

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    1
    'A Wary Embrace': Response to Stephen Blank
    Bobo Lo
    2
    Despite encroachments, China is still Russia’s preferred partner
    Stephen Blank
    3
    ‘A Wary Embrace’: The author responds
    Bobo Lo
    4
    How China and Russia avoided the Thucydides trap
    Marcin Kaczmarski
    5
    China and Russia: Friends with strategic benefits
    Alexander Gabuev
    6
    Russia and China: A long way from a fully-fledged partnership
    Peter Rutland
    7
    Sino-Russian relations: Historical secrets and modern ambitions
    Kyle Wilson
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