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In this series our Indo-Pacific experts navigate the complexities of safeguarding our present and fortifying our future in these uncertain times.
Our focus is on delivering expert analyses and insights under the national security umbrella, to help you: "Be Ready for Today. Prepared for Tomorrow." This series is crafted for a discerning audience, including defence professionals, policymakers, academics, technology experts , logistics and supply chain managers, public health officials, and food and agribusiness purveyors.
It's designed for those who seek to stay ahead of the curve in understanding and implementing the cutting-edge strategies and technologies that define global security today and shape its evolution tomorrow.
The “Vaxa Bureau - Intelligence; Optimised Podcast” is a part of the Vaxa Grow Series and brought to you by the Vaxa Bureau team.
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Our focus is on delivering expert analyses and insights under the national security umbrella, to help you: "Be Ready for Today. Prepared for Tomorrow." This series is crafted for a discerning audience, including defence professionals, policymakers, academics, technology experts , logistics and supply chain managers, public health officials, and food and agribusiness purveyors.
It's designed for those who seek to stay ahead of the curve in understanding and implementing the cutting-edge strategies and technologies that define global security today and shape its evolution tomorrow.
The “Vaxa Bureau - Intelligence; Optimised Podcast” is a part of the Vaxa Grow Series and brought to you by the Vaxa Bureau team.
Find out more: https://vaxabureau.com/
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73 episodes
since May 8, 2024
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Picture a cable roughly the diameter of a garden hose lying on the ocean floor, 3,500 metres down. It carries 95% of international data traffic, including classified military communications, financial transactions, and the digital nervous system of the Second Island Chain. Now consider this: a rece…
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Australia produces some of the cleanest, highest-quality food on the planet. But less than two percent of global venture capital flows into agriculture and food technology, a sector that represents roughly twelve to thirteen percent of Australian GDP. That gap is not a minor inefficiency. It is a s…
Australian food is 13 per cent of GDP. It gets less than 2 per cent of venture capital. That gap is not an accident. It is where the entire conversation starts.Todd Crowley sits down with Mark Gustowski and Tim Hui of Mandalay Venture Partners to work through why institutional money has stayed out …
What happens when the officer commanding Australia's forward-deployed surgical unit runs the same mission on her own time - faster, leaner, and without a joint logistics unit behind her?Wing Commander Dr Ajitha Sugnanam commands 1 Expeditionary Health Squadron, the RAAF unit responsible for deliver…
Australia feeds the region, but the mineral that makes that possible is almost entirely imported, processed offshore, and held in supply chains that break on a predictable cycle.In this episode of Intelligence Optimised, Todd Crowley sits down with John Cotter, founder of Northwest Phosphate and th…
Australia commissioned more grid-scale battery storage in 2025 than the previous eight years combined. Most of those systems have no cell-level visibility, no long-term support plan, and no answer to what happens when the supply chain that feeds them gets cut.In Part 2, Todd Crowley and Dominic Spo…
Australia commissioned more grid-scale battery storage in 2025 than in the previous eight years combined. Most of those systems provide two to three hours of support. In January this year, the worst heatwave in six years tested that limit. In October 2025, China expanded export controls on LFP cath…
Australia's agricultural sector faces simultaneous failures in fuel, fertiliser, and labour inputs. This is Part 2 of Todd Crowley's conversation with Kate Banville — journalist, former soldier, and reporter who covers agriculture and national security as interconnected risks.Todd and Kate dissect …
The season is already at risk — Australia's fuel is nearly gone and the fertiliser that should have arrived from the Gulf hasn't. ---Australia exports food to three times its population. Right now it cannot guarantee the fuel, the fertiliser, or the workforce to produce it.That is not a supply chai…
The headlines say Iran lost. The insurance market disagrees.Lloyd's of London has withdrawn cover from the waterway. Maersk has suspended bookings. 170 container ships are sitting idle inside the Gulf right now. Both cannot be true. One of them is costing you money.In this episode of Intelligence; …
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