Kokoda Foundation

You are warmly invited to
The Young Strategic Leaders’ Forum August event

Drivers of Transnational Crime: the Emerging Security Challenges

Dr Grant Wardlaw
National Manager, Intelligence, Australian Federal Police

Where:	Thursday 28 August 2008 at 5.15 for 530 pm - 7 pm
When:	Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies Theatre
	Australian Defence College, Cotter Road, Weston Creek

This YSLF presentation will focus on the following key themes

Strategic challenges for law enforcement in a changing global environment
Global crime and the major drivers of geopolitics, demographics, environment and science and technology
Policing futures
Trends in major crime
New dimensions of major crime into the future

Grant Wardlaw was appointed to the position of National Manager, Intelligence in the Australian Federal Police (AFP) on 1 July 2003. Grant has held senior executive positions in crime intelligence, research and policy organisations, including being Executive Director of the Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence (ABCI), Director of the Commonwealth Government’s Office of Strategic Crime Assessments (OSCA) and Acting Director of the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Grant has published widely in the fields of terrorism, illicit drug policy and law enforcement intelligence and is the author of Political Terrorism: Theory, Tactics and Countermeasures (Cambridge University Press).

Grant has postgraduate qualifications in psychology, international relations and international law and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.

The Role of National Manager Intelligence, Australian Federal Police

The AFP is managed according to a functional structure, with the National Manager Intelligence (NMIntel) having functional responsibility for the AFP’s criminal intelligence collection, analysis, and production activities. In addition, the position has responsibility for the AFP’s Undercover Operations and the AFP Operations Coordination Centre. NMIntel reports directly to Deputy Commissioner National Security.

Participation is free for young professionals below 35 years of age and all Kokoda Foundation members.

RSVP by Monday 25 August 2008
Email manager@kokodafoundation.org or Telephone 02 6204 1822
(for security and catering)

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The Young Strategic Leaders’ Forum is proudly sponsored by Noetic Solutions Pty Ltd

New Kokoda Paper released

Skin in the Game: Realising Australia’s National Interests in Space to 2025

by Brett Biddington

Space is no longer the sole preserve of the national security community. Australia is dependent on foreign owned and operated satellites for basic services such as timing and navigation, communications and remote sensing. However, Australia has very little influence in the bodies that govern and regulate the peaceful use of space-based utilities. Any disruption or denial of these services will have a negative impact not only on national security but also on the economic and social well-being of the nation.

Australia has been spared the substantial costs associated with investing in the development and sustainment of national space capabilities. These investments were met largely through alliance relationships, in particular with the United States. Australia gained significant strategic and operational benefit from space-based utilities by permitting ground stations to be based on its soil. This situation is no longer sufficient.

New technologies have reduced the traditional barriers to operating satellites. An increasing number of nations and commercial bodies are developing space-based capabilities. In turn, as the competition intensifies, so the risk weapons being deployed into space also grows. In order to participate as a middle level power in the emerging debates about space security, many of which have global implications, Australia must put ‘skin in the game’ to ensure it has a confident, credible and respected voice. This report outlines a modest investment program that will allow Australia to protect and advance its national interests in space into the future.

For more information see Kokoda Papers. Hard copies can be ordered here .

Security Challenges Winter 2008 Edition:
Now Available for Sale

This project examines the key elements of Australia’s energy future and then considers the implications for national security planning. Leaders of Australia’s petroleum, electricity generating, gas and transmission companies together with leading researchers in wind, solar, geo-thermal and other alternative energy sources contributed to this project both via a major workshop and also through a large number of personal interviews. Some important new perspectives emerge from this cutting-edge report, prepared by the Project Leader, Kate Delaney. This report is scheduled for publication in July 2008.

Bernard Salt has led this project. It examines the implications of the tightening Australian labour market, exacerbated by the tendency for young Australian professionals to travel overseas for employment for increasingly longer periods. This report highlights many of the personnel challenges that will confront the Australian national security community as a consequence of these trends. This report is scheduled for publication in August 2008.