Institute For Integrated Economic Research-Australia
2025
The Fifth Estate Newsletter - 16 April 2025 - Why we need to collaborate with our region to mobilise finance and smarts for climate adaptation
AMIC MPEC Conference - 8 April 2025 - Australia’s National Resilience, do we understand our risks and vulnerabilties …
ABC Radio Nightlife Program - 1 April 2025 - Australia's Fuel Security
Newswire 15 March 2025 - ‘Stop’: Qantas boss’ dark warning to Aussies
Ron Wilson 2SM Sydney - 7 March 20205 - Securing Liquid Fuel Stocks
ABC News - 7 January 2025 - Australia's fuel security falling short as 'war-game' report, released under FOI, reveals vulnerabilities
2024
Opérationnels SLDS Magazine article for the Eurosatory Exhibition in Paris in June 2024 - Australia a complacent nation adrift in the South Pacific?
LinkedIn Post April 2024 - In the case of AUSKUS, what does the UK actually add to our regional security?
Engineers Australia July 2024 - Enabling energy security in a profoundly changing world by Neil Greet
2023
Canberra Times 15 Dec 23 - Food shortage, starvation, civil war: the climate math is simple
ASCLG Parliamentary Press Conference Statement 13 Sep 23 - ‘Full alert’: National strategy to combat climate security risks urgently needed, say former defence & security leaders
ABC Radio Victorian Country Hour 3 Aug 23 - Food security should play a greater role in Australia's national security plans ( interview at 38 min mark.)
LinkedIn Post July 2023 - Is Australia, in fact, secure in 2024, or is Australia a complacent nation adrift in the South Pacific?
Canberra Times 18 June 2023 - Defence review reflects a profound failure of leadership
Pearls and Irritations Journal 29 May 23 - The Defence Strategic Review Strategy vacuum
Defence Connect 22 May 23 - THE DEFENCE STRATEGIC REVIEW 2023 - We now have a DSR, but where is the National Risk Assessment, Security Strategy and the plan ?
NSW Farm Writers Association 26 May 23 - Agriculture, Food Security and Supply Chain Resilience - How real is Australia’s food security?
ASH Cloud Podcast 26 Feb 23 : Agriculture is not just about food security, it’s about national and regional security …
Mind the GAP - Dialogues on Artificial Intelligence Podcast 14 Feb 23 - Artificial Intelligence promises great benefits for national security, but the challenge is how to adapt this new technology to sophisticated weapon systems.
2022
Safeguarding Australia Summit 17 Nov 2022 - National Resilience and Supply Chains in the face of Geopolitical Instability and Climate Change
Second Line of Defense: 21 Oct 2022 - Shaping a Way Ahead for Australian Defence: It is Not Just About ADF Modernization
Victorian Farmers Federation Conference 14 October 2022 - Food Security and Supply Chains Presentation
ABC World Today 21 Apr 22 - Fuel supply running dangerously low
KAP Podcast - 24 Mar 2022 - Interview with Robbie Katter re National Security and Resilience
Sky News interview 23 Mar 22 - Climate change is ‘going to get a lot worse’
Presentation to the March 2022 Air and Space Symposium - National Resilience and Innovation in Australia
ABC TV Interview 21 Mar 22 - Defence analyst warns Australia 'too reliant' on imported oil
ABC Online News 21 Mar 22 - Foreign oil dependence a 'massive vulnerability' as defence experts call for EVs, green transport
AG Watchers Podcast 16 Mar 22 - The Great Fuel Crisis of 2022 and Beyond
2GB Radio Interview 6 Mar 22 - Lessons that Australia should learn from the conflict in Ukraine
2021
ABC Radio News 17 May 2021 - Concerns around Australia's fuel security alleviated by Federal funding boost
Engineers Australia Create Magazine - 28 April 2021 - Why this former military chief believes engineers are vital to build national resilience
Canberra Times Opinion Piece - 21 April 2021 - Australia must learn the lessons of this pandemic when it comes to climate change
News.com.au 20 April 2021 - ‘Disaster alley’: New threats Australia faces
Australian Financial Review, 19 March 2021 - Vaccine Challenges Another Chapter in the Same Story, James Thomson
The West Australian, 18 March 2021 - Most Aussies support electric car subsidy, Rebecca Gredle
2GB Interview Michael McLaren & John Blackburn, 5 March 2021 - Scott Morrison to launch 10-year critical minerals ‘value-add plan’
2GB Interview Michael McLaren & John Blackburn, 12 February 2021 - Aussie Fuel Security at risk with the closing of Exxon Altona
ABC News Online, Video Blog, 11 February 2021 Fears for Australia’s fuel security following decision to close Altona refinery
2GB Interview, The Chris Smith Show, Michael McLaren & John Blackburn, 2 January 2021 - Australia’s ability to be self-sufficient
Climate Security Threat, Former Defence Leaders Sound Alarm
23 April 2021 MilSec TV interview with John Blackburn
Governments not fit for purpose in today’s complex world
15 October 2020 Business Now Asia Pacific interview with IIER-A Chair John Blackburn
Australian Institute of International Affairs July 2020
A presentation on Australia’s National Resilience
Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast Aug 20
Episode #5: Changing the disaster language to “our preparedness and resilience”
Australian Defence Magazine Podcast July 2020 - National Resilience
Senator David Fawcett, Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence & Trade and John Blackburn, Chair IIER-A, are interviewed by ADM’s Managing Editor Katherine Ziesing and Grant McHerron.
Australia’s National Resilience
8 July 2020 Business Now Asia Pacific interview with IIER-A Chair John Blackburn
Coast Business Radio Interview 3 Jun 20 - National Resilience and Supply Chains
Dare to Prepare
Ch 7 Weekend Sunrise Program interview on 3 May 20 regarding Australia’s supply chain vulnerabilities and the need for “Smart Sovereignty.”
Confidential report predicted how long it would take for essential services to break down during a major crisis
The 26 Apr 20 ABC 7:30 Report featuring IIER-A Fellow Cheryl Durrant and Chair John Blackburn.
COVID-19 Warnings Ignored?
Channel 9 Today Show 29 Apr 20 - "When you write about these things in times when you're not in a crisis, people aren't really that interested."
Over reliance on China 'must never happen again'
Sky News Report : This news segment highlights the Institute’s “Australia’s Medicine Supply Chain” Report.
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Think of coronavirus as a test run: Australian military leaders warn we must prepare for worse
As Australia was swept by panic buying and medical shortages this year, the scenes were eerily familiar for one of the country's most senior military planners … this is the 27 Apr 20 ABC online article featuring IIER-A Fellow Cheryl Durrant and Chair John Blackburn.
Defence Connect Podcast -
INSIGHT: National resilience – John Blackburn AO, Institute for Integrated Economic Research – Australia
On this inaugural episode of Defence Connect Insight Podcast, hosts Phil Tarrant and Steve Kuper are joined by John Blackburn to delve into the complex and somewhat controversial subject of Australia’s national resilience.
John Blackburn’s Interview with Dr Robbin Laird- April 2019
The interview discusses an example of a common problem in Australia – a lack of systems thinking in the Government. The current energy focus is on exports and export earnings at the cost of domestic security and domestic cost of energy supplies. Blackburn argues that if you take a broader view, we could consider how different energy supplies / systems could be integrated under a comprehensive strategy which would enable exports but within an approach that was based first upon domestic costs and supply considerations and national security.
Understanding Disaster Resilience - Climate Change
A short video for the Emergency Management Australia Disaster Resilence Workshops