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Nautilus Institute in Australia

by Richard Tanter last modified 14-Mar-2010 14:52

Nautilus Institute in Australia hosted at RMIT University concentrates on issues related to the security and sustainability of Australia and the neighbouring parts of the Asia Pacific Region.

About Nautilus

Public Forum: Who will stop nuclear next use?
All speeches now available via RMIT iTunes U.
Transcripts: Gareth Evans and Rolf Ekéus

Staff

Melbourne: Peter Hayes, Richard Tanter, Jonathan O'Donnell, and Arabella Imhoff

Nautilus Australia in the News

Projects

New: Nautilus Institute RMIT awarded Australia-Korea Foundation grant

The Australia-Korea Foundation (AKF) has awarded Nautilus Institute RMIT a $33,000 grant for its project on "Strong connections: Australia-Korea strategic futures and strengthened civil society policy connections". With this AKF support Nautilus RMIT, together with its Nautilus nodes in Seoul and San Francisco, will organise a research workshop and a public forum in April 2010. The focus will be on exploring government and civil society perspectives on the enduring consequences of the Korean War, and developing new approaches to shared strategic problems such as extended nuclear deterrence at a time when the abolition of nuclear weapons is firmly on the global agenda. 

Background information: Extended nuclear deterrence in the Republic of Korea.

Core projects

Austral Peace and Security Network

APSNet Bulletin - 15 March 2010

Twice weekly overview of news that affects the Austral-Pacific region and that of its Asian neighbours.

  1. Warning on delays for fighter jets
  2. Thales in Combet sights
  3. Japan angry on nuclear shift
  4. [Indonesia] Change with a few rough edges
  5. Aussie soldiers capture senior Taliban leader
  6. East Timor threatens to scuttle gas development
  7. Nuclear weapons: arms control, proliferation and nuclear security

Austral Policy Forum - analytical essays from leading writers and researchers on peace and security

APSNet Special Reports and Briefing Notes

Australian Forces Abroad Briefing Books

Drawing together existing knowledge concerning ADF and AFP deployments on missions outside Australia. By making such material accessible, a pool of common knowledge will be created which will assist the Australian community and those communities in which ADF and AFP forces are deployed to assess Australian government policy and its impact. Briefing Books already published deal with Australian Forces in Afghanistan, Solomon Islands, East Timor and Tonga. Subsequent Briefing Books will deal with Iraq and other Pacific deployments and relationships.  

Reframing Australia – Indonesia security

Reframing Australia-Indonesia security is a Nautilus project in collaboration with Indonesian partner organisations through shared work on global problems: in particular climate change and energy insecurity.

Australia-Japan civil society cooperation for nuclear disarmament

The Australia Japan Foundation has awarded the Nautilus Institute at RMIT $40,000 to support Nautilus Institute's response to the increased danger of nuclear war and proliferation through Australia-Japan cooperation for nuclear disarmament. The government-government relationship between Australia and Japan will be deepened by the Australian initiative to establish the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, co-chaired by Australia and Japan. This project seeks to supplement that with parallel work at the civil society level, which at least in the area of strategic relations, has been less developed than in other sectors.

Contact us

Voice mail: +61 3 9925 3170
Facsimile: +61 3 9925 2387
Electronic mail: austral@rmit.edu.au

Mailing address
Nautilus Institute at RMIT
RMIT University
GPO Box 2476V
Melbourne Victoria 3001
AUSTRALIA


Delivery address
Nautilus Institute at RMIT
RMIT University
Room 10, Level 2, Building 91
110 Victoria Street
Carlton Victoria 3052
AUSTRALIA

17 February 2010