Nautilus in the News

ADF plays down warlord’s role on crucial supply chain, Mark Dodd and Jeremy Kelly, The Australian, 28 April 2010 The Australian Defence Force is reluctant to reveal too much about its well-developed links with Colonel Mutiallah Khan and his private army, which is known as the Kandak Amniante Uruzgan. The ADF will neither confirm nor […]

Indonesia memakai tenaga nuklir, Sri Dean, SBS, April 2010 Radio SBS berbincang dengan Ir Adiwardoyo, Kepala Bidang Pengembangan Teknologi dan Energi Nuklir Nasional Badan Tenaga Nuklir Nasional (Batan) dan Ms Arabella Imhoff, Staf Peneliti, Institut Nautilus di RMIT. [Radio discussion with Ir Adiwardoyo, Head Technology Development and Nuclear Energy, Indonesian National Nuclear Energy Agency, and […]

Report slip hits nuclear hopes, Daniel Flitton, The Age, 25 March 2010 In a blow to Australia’s credibility in global nuclear debates, the Rudd government has ignored a key finding from its own inquiry into disarmament, one that called for limits on the use of atomic weapons in war. RMIT’s Richard Tanter said Australia had […]

A prediction of things to come in Afghanistan, Interview with RMIT Professor Richard Tanter about new troops in Afghanistan, Susan Wilson [Filmed 25.09.2009].

Indonesia’s Govt revives interest in nuclear power plant plan, Beverley Wang, Asia Pacific, ABC, 28 January 2010 WANG: Professor Richard Tanter of RMIT’s Nautilus Institute has written extensively about Indonesia’s nuclear energy plans, and says though Indonesia’s burgeoning democracy has taken the right steps in splitting its its national nuclear atomic energy agency, BATAN, from […]

Indonesia gets serious about nuclear energy, Tom Allard, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 December 2009 Indonesia could formally embrace nuclear power as early as next year as senior Government members push to revive a proposal to build up to four reactors just 30 kilometres from a volcano in Central Java. During this year’s presidential election campaign, […]

Expert warns of potential conflicts from REDD scheme, Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta Post, 21 November 2009 Richard Tanter, Director of the Nautilus Institute’s Australia office, discussed the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation program (REDD) noting, “this could be a new version of a conflict between the West and the rest… rich nations will […]

North using battle for diplomatic gain, Sen Lam, Connect Asia, Radio Australia, ABC, 11 November 2009 In an interview with the ABC News Connect Asia Program, Scott Thomas Bruce, Director of US Operations for the Nautilus Institute, discussed the November 10th skirmish between ROK and DPRK ships noting, “This should be understood as North Korea […]

 Australia’s basing its $87m secret on sensitive absurdity, Tom Hyland, Age, 11 November 2009 In an article in The Age Richard Tanter, Director of the Nautilus Institute’s Australia Office, discussed Australia’s secret construction of a base in the United Arab Emirates noting, “Governments ought to be as transparent as possible, and secrecy should only be […]

China favours trade links over nuclear politics with North Korea, John Garnaut, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 October 2009. Peter Hayes, a North Korea expert at RMIT University in Melbourne and a director of the Nautilus Institute, said China and Western nations had different aims in North Korea and denuclearisation was a fading prospect.