Ep. 183: Hormuz—the new nuclear
Eight weeks into the US-Israeli war against Iran, the ceasefire is about to expire and the second round of negotiations is supposed to be happening this week in Islamabad. Darren uses the framework of “war-as-bargaining” to make sense of an extraordinary three weeks—the threats, the ceasefire, the …
Ep 184: Learning lessons on Iran
Eleven weeks into the U.S.-Iran war, the news cycle is relentless, but the strategic position has barely moved. Darren looks to step back from the weekly churn to lay out the five durable lessons of this conflict — the things that were becoming visible in March, that have held through April, that a…
Ep. 185: Shangri-La and other (non-Iran) news
Stephen Dziedzic of the ABC joins Darren to catch up on something besides Iran and the (still-closed) Strait of Hormuz. The conversation begins with the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, where Stephen was on the ground. They discuss the mood in the room, the relative absence of Iran from the public…
Ep 186: Deal or no deal on Hormuz?
Darren is back to do (yet another) solo episode on Iran. This week, the United States and Iran did a deal, Trump put pen to a physical copy at Versailles, and the war looked like it might be — in a narrow sense— over.
At least, this is what Darren sought to analyse when he first recorded on Saturd…
Wish Skin Health UK X The Contraindication
This is the first ever guested episode of The Contraindication and a quick note before we get into it: I have no commercial relationship with either guest or with Wish Skin Health UK.
The aesthetics industry is saturated with brands promising the world, yet so many practitioners are left feeling co…
Ep 187: No deal (on Hormuz)
Darren is back at the mic after a month away and, again, back on the Iran/Hormuz story. The deal he spent an hour analysing in June is dead inside three weeks, the two sides are fighting again, American soldiers are dying, important infrastructure has been destroyed across the region, and a fresh c…
Ep 188: Missiles, Pacific integration and managed competition
Stephen Dziedzic of the ABC returns to catch up on a remarkable month in Australian foreign policy.
The conversation begins with China’s submarine-launched ballistic missile test into the South Pacific. Stephen and Darren ask who Beijing was really signalling, what the test says about China’s nucl…
Ep. 189: Contesting Australian grand strategy (and doing your homework)
This episode Darren goes full academic, using Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s recent Allan Gyngell Lecture as the starting point for a broader discussion of Australian grand strategy. Wong takes up Allan’s conception of foreign policy as a means of expanding Australia’s international space, increasin…
Ep. 190: Graham Fletcher on managing China
In this episode, Darren speaks with Graham Fletcher, who recently retired after almost four decades in the Australian public service, much of it spent working on China. Fletcher served four postings in Beijing, culminating in his term as Australian Ambassador to China from 2019 to 2023 — covering C…
Ep. 191: Tim Watts MP on AI sovereignty, safety and Australia’s choices
In a somewhat different episode of the podcast, Darren speaks with Tim Watts MP, a member of the parliament’s new Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, about how Australia should think about AI at a moment when both the technology and the politics surrounding it are moving extraordinar…
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