Nautilus Institute in Australia

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

• Richard Tanter: No plans for nuclear power in Indonesia, Lynn Lee, Straits Times, 19 June 2010

• Richard Tanter: Japan's socialist party pulls out of coalition, Sen Lam, Connect Asia, Radio Australia, ABC, 31 May 2010 [audio link]

• Arabella Imhoff: Indonesia memakai tenaga nuklir [Indonesia and nuclear power], Sri Dean, SBS, April 2010 [audio link]

• Richard Tanter: Failed bomb attack unveils real face of international terrorism, Sally Neighbour, The Australian, 8 May  2010

Projects

New: Nautilus Institute RMIT workshop and forum in Seoul: Strong connections: Australia-Korea strategic futures

Nautilus Institute at RMIT, together with its Seoul partner, Nautilus ARI, will run a research workshop and a public forum funded by the Australia-Korea Foundation on Australia-Korea strategic futures and strengthened civil society policy relations in Seoul on June 15-16 and June 17 respectively. The research forum, Strong connections: Australia-Korea strategic futures and strengthened civil society policy connections, will focus 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. Further information here.

New: Nautilus Institute - Korea-Japan NWFZ proposal briefing paper (English version; Korean version; Japanese version)

Core projects

• Austral Peace and Security Network
• Australian Forces Abroad Briefing Books
• Reframing Australia – Indonesia security
• Australia-Japan civil society cooperation for nuclear disarmament

Austral Peace and Security Network

APSNet Bulletin - 21 June 2010

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

1. SAS troops rout insurgent group
2. Deciding to go to war should not be left to the PM
3. Army capability review 2010
4. Afghanistan, and the world’s resource war
5. Realism in Afghanistan: rethinking an uncertain case for the war
6. Papuans march to call for end to the Indonesian province’s special autonomy status
7. Fugitive to leak secret airstrike video

• Previous issues

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

• Policy Forum 09-22A: Nuclear Power, Risk Management and Democratic Accountability in Indonesia: Volcanic, regulatory and financial risk in the Muria peninsula nuclear power proposal, Richard Tanter, Arabella Imhoff and David Von Hippel
• Previous policy forums
  

APSNet Special Reports and Briefing Notes

• Austral Special Report 09-09S: The path not taken, the way still open: Denuclearizing the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia - Peter Hayes and Michael Hamel-Green
• Austral Special Report 09-08S: Value-subtracting: Form vs. substance in Australian uranium safeguard policy - Richard Leaver
• Austral Special Report 09-07S: Rethinking extended nuclear deterrence in the defence of Australia - Richard Tanter
• Austral Special Report 09-06S: Extended nuclear deterrence, Global Abolition and Korea - Peter Hayes
  
• Previous special reports
  
• Previous 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.  

• Australia in Afghanistan
• Australia in Solomon Islands
• Australia in East Timor
  
• Australia in Tonga
• Australia in the Pacific Islands
• Australian Bases Abroad
• Australian Defence Facilities

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-Indonesia nuclear dynamics
• Indonesia - nuclear power
• Australia - nuclear proliferation
• Climate change and security
• Mapping Causal Complexity in Climate Change Impacts and Responses - Australia and Indonesia
  
• AdaptNet
  
• Bahasa Indonesia (in partnership with Yayasan Pelangi Indonesia)
• English/Vietnamese (in partnership the Vietnam Green Building Council)
• Chinese (in partnership with the NGO Research Center, Tsinghua University)

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

14 June 2010