Dr John Coyne

@johncoyne14

Head Strategic Policing and Law Enforcement and Northern Australia Strategic Policy Centre @aspi_org #policing| #Intelligence #organizedcrime| RT ≠ endorsement

Canberra, Australia

Joined December 2014

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Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 18

In the fight against drugs, Australia should follow the money policinginsight.com/feature/opinio…

johncoyne14's tweet card. Australia is losing the fight to disrupt illicit drug supply chains – not for lack of effort, but because it needs additional weapons and new approaches – warns Dr John Coyne…

Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · 21 h

How male grievance fuels radicalisation and extremist violence | Haily Tran | aspistrategist.org.au/how-male-griev… via @aspi_org

johncoyne14's tweet card. Social extremism is evolving in reach and form. While traditional racial supremacy ideologies remain, contemporary movements are now often fuelled by something more personal and emotionally resonant:...

Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 24

Australia must stop reacting to crisis and start building for it. Civil infrastructure is national security. #auspol #resilience #infrastructure aspistrategist.org.au/hardened-in-pe… via @aspi_org

johncoyne14's tweet card. Deep beneath the Israeli port city of Haifa lies a facility few would expect: a fully operational, blast-resistant hospital converted from an underground car park. The Sammy Ofer Fortified Undergro...

Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 24

Aus copper supply chain is cracking. Glencore is ready to walk, 1000+ jobs are on the line, and Mount Isa’s future hangs in the balance. If copper isn’t a critical mineral now, when will it be? auspol #nationalsecurity #criticalminerals theaustralian.com.au/business/inter… via @australian

Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 23

'Without access to local smelting, transport and processing costs will increase, threatening their viability and accelerating the decline of Australia's domestic metals processing sector.' Coyne said. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… via @MailOnline

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Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 23

Australia’s cloud future can’t repeat past tech mistakes. Shared responsibility—not blind trust—is the only way to secure sovereignty in a volatile digital age. #CloudSecurity #ASPI #CyberResilience aspistrategist.org.au/not-just-gover… via @aspi_org

johncoyne14's tweet card. Australia’s move to cloud-based technologies can’t afford to repeat the mistakes of the early adoption of the internet and social media. At first, those earlier developments were not seen as critical...

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Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 23

Australia’s vape crackdown has birthed a violent black market. Prohibition without strategy turns a public health challenge into a criminal enterprise. #Vapes #OrganisedCrime #HarmReduction aspistrategist.org.au/vapes-violence… via @aspi_org

johncoyne14's tweet card. There’s a new war on Australian streets, and it’s not just about tobacco or vapes; it’s about control, cash and crime. While Australia once led the world in cutting smoking rates, the rise of illicit...

Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 23

The Pilbara isn’t just an export engine. Its role in energy, logistics and defence resilience demands more than royalties and rhetoric. Canberra must shift from transactional policy to nation-building. #ASPI #Pilbara #Resilience aspistrategist.org.au/public-private… via @aspi_org

johncoyne14's tweet card. Australia must stop viewing the Pilbara solely as a resource basin and start treating it as a national security asset. That’s the message that emerged at the Pilbara Major Projects Summit in late...

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Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 23

Oz has the graphite, but China has the power. With 90% of battery-grade graphite refined offshore, Leliyn is a wake-up call. The real test? Turning discovery into downstream cap. #ASPI #CriticalMinerals #Graphite aspistrategist.org.au/australia-can-… via @aspi_org

johncoyne14's tweet card. Australia has the graphite the world needs, but it still relies on others to process the material. With more than 90 percent of the world’s battery-grade graphite refined in China, Australia is rich...

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Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 23

The Pentagon’s rare earths deal with MP Materials is bold industrial policy. But make no mistake: this is America First. Strategic autonomy has a postcode. #CriticalMinerals #ASPI aspistrategist.org.au/us-moves-decis… via @aspi_org

johncoyne14's tweet card. The Pentagon’s package of support for rare earths company MP Minerals, announced on 10 July, should free the US military and eventually much of US industry from dependence on Chinese supply chains...

Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 22

Glencore’s Mt Isa copper smelter is a nat test of economic sovereignty, industrial resilience. Without a long-term plan, we risk losing critical processing #MountIsa #CriticalMinerals #EconomicSovereignty #Queensland #Glencore #ASPI theaustralian.com.au/nation/lnp-off… via @australian

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Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 22

The Pacific’s digital future will be decided by who builds the region’s trust. This is a strat test can we deliver sovereign, secure, Pacific-led digital infrastructure before China’s #DigitalSovereignty #CyberSecurity #Geopolitics #ASPI aspistrategist.org.au/west-should-co… via @aspi_org

johncoyne14's tweet card. The Pacific is no longer an afterthought in global strategic competition. Stretching across a vast ocean, the region’s scattered island nations are navigating a digital transition that will shape...

Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 22

Australia is at critical juncture to reform parliamentary intelligence oversight | Chris Taylor | aspistrategist.org.au/australia-is-a… via @aspi_org

johncoyne14's tweet card. Australia’s intelligence agencies are increasingly centre-stage as cyber threats, foreign interference, grey-zone competition and the prospect of Indo-Pacific conflict reshape our national security....

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Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 22

Aurizon boss in spotlight ahead of reporting season theaustralian.com.au/business/datar… via @australian

Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 22

The Quad Critical Minerals Initiative - orfonline.org/research/the-q… via @orfonline

johncoyne14's tweet card. The Quad Critical Minerals Initiative

Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 20

Australia is at critical juncture to reform parliamentary intelligence oversight | Chris Taylor | aspistrategist.org.au/australia-is-a… via @aspi_org

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Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 20

The problem with ‘stabilising’ China relations: it hardly makes a difference | Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan | aspistrategist.org.au/the-problem-wi… via @aspi_org

johncoyne14's tweet card. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s current, six-day visit to China is meant to be another step in stabilising the relationship between the two countries. The problem is that no such efforts, by...

Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 20

The last public database tracking protests in China is about to go dark | Bethany Allen | aspistrategist.org.au/the-last-publi… via @aspi_org

johncoyne14's tweet card. As global financiers tried in late 2024 to predict how much stimulus Xi Jinping would roll out to boost China’s faltering economy, government censorship of China’s economic data drove them to a...

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Policing Insight@PolicingInsight · Jul 18

Australia is losing the fight to disrupt illicit drug supply chains – not for lack of effort, but because it needs additional weapons and new approaches – warns Dr John Coyne, Director of National Security Programs at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, who calls for a…

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Dr John Coyne@johncoyne14 · Jul 18

AUKUS port purchases alarm: fears of Chinese Communist Party links theaustralian.com.au/nation/defence… via @australian