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Maritime Matters Episode Title: From the Red Sea, to the South China Sea & of course, SEA 3000
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
• Houthi attack on US Navy ships
• Recent developments in the South China Sea
• SEA 3000
• Decommissioning of HMAS Gascoyne
• 110th anniversary of the Sydney - Emden battle -
Maritime Matters Episode Title: Exercise Autonomous Warrior & Natuna Sea
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
• PLAN Carrier Exercises
• Exercise Autonomous Warrior
• Chinese Coastguard in Natuna Sea
• Philippines’ Comprehensive Archipelagic Defense Concept
• Fire at BAE Systems Shipyard
• Orca & Evolved Cape Class
• Did you know – Tange Reforms -
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Maritime Matters Episode Title: Joint Sword 2024B, AUKUS and the Henderson Defence Precinct
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
• Exercise Joint Sword 2024B
• AUKUS Updates
• Iran hosts IMEX 24
• Henderson Defence Precinct
• US Navy reloading VLS at sea -
Maritime Matters Episode Title: Sinking of HMNZS Manawanui and Red Sea Attacks
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
• Sinking of HMNZS Manawanui Attacks in the Black Sea
• Exercise Malabar
• Houthi Attacks in Red Sea
• Tensions in the South China Sea
• Philippines USV unit
• Did you know – Five Power Defence Arrangement -
Maritime Matters Episode Title: 30 Sep Taiwan Strait Transits and PLA ICBM Launches
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
• Taiwan Strait Transits and Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activities
• Exercise Kakadu
• Rumours of a PLA-N submarine sinking
• US CNO Navigation Plan
https://www.navy.mil/Leadership/Chief-of-Naval-Operations/CNO-NAVPLAN-2024/
• AUKUS Defence Minister update
https://www.minister.defence.gov.au/statements/2024-09-26/aukus-defence-ministers-meeting-communique
• USNS Bighorn grounding
• Hanwha takeover of AUSTAL finally put to bed -
Maritime Matters Episode Title: Exercise Kakadu and the Strategic Fleet
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
• Exercise Kakadu
• Attacks in the Black Sea
• HMAS Sydney in Operation ARGOS
• US-China Military Talks
• JMSDF Aircraft Carriers
• The Strategic Fleet Tender
• NUSHIP Arafura trials
Links Mentioned:
• Army’s continual adaptation mindset https://www.theaustralian.com.au/special-reports/armys-continual-adaptation-mindset/news-story/308f27ac141cb05909b498192320ae51
• The Australian centenary history of defence: Vol 6 Australian defence : sources and statistics, ed. Joan Beaumont with Vijaya Joshi https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/757262 -
Maritime Matters Episode Title: Australia to take command of CTF 153 & incidents at Sabina Shoal
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
- Australia to take Command of CTF 153, Combined Maritime Forces
- Tensions flare at Sabina Shoal: Philippines - China
- Australia to produce Naval Strike Missile
- AUKUS Submarine maintenance in Western Australia
- Did you know: The Combined Maritime Forces -
Maritime Matters Episode Title: HMAS Sydney SM6 Firing & Australia and Indonesia Defence Agreements
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
- Chins PLAAF aircraft launches flares in the vicinity of a Philippines aircraft at Scarborough Shoal
- HMAS Sydney fires SM6 in Hawaii
- The AUKUS Treaty: A Major Milestone
- Investing in the Ghost Shark industrial base
- Delivering the Evolved Cape Class Patrol Boat -
Maritime Matters Episode Title: South China Sea, Indian Ocean and everywhere in between.
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
• Indian Ocean Defence Symposium 2024.
• Philippines - China Second Thomas Shoal agreement.
• China's research ships in the Indian Ocean.
• Should Australia do more in the Red Sea?
• Army landing craft capability acceleration.
• RIMPAC SINKEX
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Maritime Matters Episode Title: China-Philippines Agreement & Recoverable UUVs
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
• China-Philippines Agreement
• China-Russia Naval Exercises
• Houthi Attacks in the Red Sea
• Deploying Recoverable UUVs.
• Naval Strike Missile
• Decommissioning of Hydrographic Survey -
Maritime Matters Episode Title: Pitch Black, SEA 3000 & Canadian submarines
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
• Richard's new AUKUS Article
• ITS Cavour at Exercise Pitch Black
• Japanese destroyer in Chinese Territorial waters
• SEA 3000 - What do we know?
• New Canadian submarines
Links:
Control of the sea is worth gambling on AUKUS - Richard Dunley
https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/control-of-the-sea-is-worth-gambling-on-aukus-20240708-p5jrtg
Project Sea 3000: What we know - Ben Felton
https://www.australiandefence.com.au/news/news/project-sea-3000-what-we-know -
Maritime Matters Episode Title: RIMPAC and AUKUS articles
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
• RIMPAC & Australian commitment to the exercise
• Chinese Philippines Dialogue
• AUKUS articles in the Australian Finanical Review
• US Submarine Tender and Dragonfire Directed Energy Weapons
• Did you know? Australian Aircraft Carrier Acquisition
The ABC Fact Check article mentioned in the podcast can be found here - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-26/fact-check-richard-marles-oldest-surface-fleet-wwii/104023268 -
Maritime Matters Episode Title: 21 June China's new coastguard regulation & Australian Replenishment ships
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
• New publications from Richard and Jen:
AUKUS Optimal Pathway: Optimal Pathway: the best option left - Richard Dunley
https://www.ussc.edu.au/is-australias-aukus-submarine-pathway-really-optimal
Small Mobile Pieces of National Sovereignty?—Uncrewed Vessels, Naval Diplomacy, and the Challenge of Signaling - Richard Dunley
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol77/iss1/4/
Time to promote a woman as deputy chief of Navy - Jennifer Parker
https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/time-to-promote-a-woman-as-deputy-chief-of-navy-20240620-p5jnae
• China's new Coastguard regulation
Reading links:
The South China Sea Dog That Hasn’T Barked … Yet - Zack Cooper and Greg Poling
https://warontherocks.com/2024/06/the-south-china-sea-dog-that-hasnt-barked-yet/
• Chinese interception of resupply at Second Thomas Shoal - Continued escalation
• Defects on Australian replenishment vessels -
Maritime Matters Episode Title: Shangri-La Dialogue and AUKUS submarines
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
• Shangri-La Dialogue
• Chinese interception of resupply at Second Thomas Shoal
• Update from VADM Jonathon Mead about AUKUS Pillar 1
• Collins Class LOTE
• Did you know? Australian Army Watercraft -
Maritime Matters Episode Title: Exercise Joint Sword 2024A
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
• Exercise Joint Sword 2024A, China’s exercises off the coast of Taiwan
• South Australia’s deal with Huntington Ingalls Industries
• Decommissioning of HMAS Anzac & HMAS Huon
• Collins Class LOTE
• Did you know? Taiwan Median Line & ADIZ -
Date: 10 May 2024
Maritime Matters Episode Title: China's PLAAF unsafe and unprofessional behaviour and the week that was
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
• China's PLAAF aircraft's unprofessional and unsafe behaviour towards a Australian Navy helicopter in the Yellow Sea
• Exercise Balikatan completes
• ASC workers strike in South Australia
• China's new UUV
• Ukrainian USVs with Surface to Air Missiles
• Did you know? Australia's Operation Argos -
Maritime Matters Episode Title: The week in maritime affairs: Scarborough Shoal & Austal-Hanwha
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
• Chiefs of Navy meeting at the Western Pacific Naval Symposium
• Chinese harassment of Philippine vessels near Scarborough Shoal
• Hanwha’s potential takeover of Austal and implications for the Australian general purpose frigate procurement
• Did you know? The Radford-Collins Agreement -
Date: 26 April 2024
Maritime Matters Episode Title: The week in maritime affairs: Western Pacific Naval Symposium and mid-range missiles in South East Asia
In this episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard...) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including:
• PLA Navy ships at Ream Naval Base, Cambodia
• The Western Pacific Naval Symposium in Qingdao, China 21-13 Apr 24
• The Philippines' acquisition of the Brahmos cruise missile
• US deployment of mid-range missile capability to South East Asia
• Did you know? Code for Unplanned Encounters at SEA (CUES)
Links:
Code for Unplanned Encounters at SEA (CUES) Link here -
Date: 19 April 2024
Name of podcast: Maritime Matters
Episode title and number: Australia's National Defence Strategy and the week that was
Summary: In the first episode of Maritime Matters Jennifer Parker (https://www.jennifer-parker.com.au/) and Richard Dunley (https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/richard-dunley) discuss the week that was in Maritime Matters, including the release of Australia's National Defence Strategy, the impact of tensions in the Middle East on the maritime domain, and some interesting naval capabilities announced in the last week.
Chapters:
Australia's National Defence Strategy [02:01]
Operational Developments in the Middle East [20:54]
Capability Announcements [29:57]
Did you know? The Sandison Line [38:02]
Links
National Defence Strategy https://www.defence.gov.au/about/strategic-planning/2024-national-defence-strategy-2024-integrated-investment-program#:~:text=The%20Australian%20Government%20has%20released,the%20concept%20of%20National%20Defence.
The Sandison Line: For a description see Australian Maritime Doctrine https://seapower.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/australian-maritime-doctrine-2010#:~:text=Australian%20Maritime%20Doctrine%20is%20the,Navy%20goes%20about%20its%20business. -
A short teaser for the new Maritime Matters podcast - The weekly podcast where Jennifer Parker and Richard Dunley breakdown the weeks issues impacting maritime security in Australia and the wider Indo-Pacific.
