ACITI's Bryan Clark spoke to ASPI Senior Fellow David Uren about his recent report on the importance of Australia's trade routes to our national security.

The report identifies Australia's key maritime trade routes, Australia's patterns of maritime trade, how goods are shipped, what flexibility there is in the system and its vulnerabilities.

David Uren is one of Australia's most highly regarded economic writers. He led the Australian's Canberra economic coverage for 15 years and was the newspaper's Economic Editor from 2012 to 2018. He is a specialist in international economic relations. He is author of the book on Australia's attitudes towards foreign investment, Takeover (2016) and of The Kingdom and the Quarry (2012) about the tensions in Australia's economic relationship with China which emerged under the Rudd Government. He was also co-author, with Leonore Taylor, of Shitstorm (2010), about the Rudd Government's management of the global financial crisis. Uren has written research reports on rare earths and on Australia's investment relationship with the United States for the US Studies Centre.

Check out the recording On the ACITI Forum page.