Conferenz’s Safe and Secure Facilities and Public Spaces conference in August was the first in a string events this year exploring the ‘wicked problem’ of securing ‘crowded places’ from attack, writes chief editor Nicholas Dynon […]
Despite media suggesting that all roads to foreign political interference lead to Beijing, Hon Heather Roy writes that only a broader understanding of the issue will ensure the resilience of our electoral system. A National […]
New Zealand is experienced in responding to crises, write Dr Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor (University of Auckland) and Dr Layla Branicki (Macquarie University), but achieving resilience requires a joined-up approach before crises hit. New Zealanders are collectively […]
Dr Richard Shortt, former Combined Threat Assessment Group manager (New Zealand Police/NZ Security Intelligence Service) and national security policy advisor (Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet), suggests the need for a circumspect response to extremism. […]
The failure to prevent the Christchurch attack is a collective one, writes Dr John Battersby of Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies. It is a horribly uneasy and uncomfortable feeling to review one’s […]
Dr William Hoverd of Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies writes that violent protest needn’t be a perennial feature of the NZDIA Annual Forum. Dialogue is an important first step. This year I […]
National Security Workforce Senior Advisor Navlene Singh writes that a new New Zealand government-led programme is opening up opportunities for women in the National Security sector. Launched earlier this year, the Women in National Security […]
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) special report ‘Safety in numbers: Australia’s private security guard force and counterterrorism’ is an account of both the massive opportunities and stifling barriers facing Australia’s security industry, writes editor […]
Red teaming includes war-gaming, physical and digital penetration testing, alternative futures and alternative analysis. In this article, Dr Simon Ewing-Jarvie, Chief Disruption Officer at Torquepoint Ltd, discusses the latter two in the context of emerging […]
Civil Defence Minister Kris Faafoi released the Government’s response to a Ministerial Technical Advisory Group (TAG) report on New Zealand’s civil defence emergency response system on 29 August. The response includes funding of $5.2 million […]
Richard Voss, Director at Ignite Architects, and Dr Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor, Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, record their learnings from QuakeCoRE 2018 – the annual meeting of the NZ Centre for Earthquake Resilience. It […]
Auckland Council a big winner at the annual RiskNZ Awards of Excellence, with Council’s Cecilia Tse named risk management professional of the year. The RiskNZ Awards of Excellence was presented in Wellington on Wednesday 12 […]
The Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience has launched a companion document to Australia’s Strategy for Protecting Crowded Places from Terrorism – the Safe and Healthy Crowded Places Handbook. The Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience (AIDR) […]
Dr William Hoverd, Senior Lecturer at Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies, is guest editor of this 2018 National Security Conference special issue of Line of Defence. He offers his reflections on the […]
Dr Germana Nicklin of Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies, writes that disparate views in New Zealand about ‘national security’ need to be resolved. The concept of national security in New Zealand is […]
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