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In the wake of bushfires and coronavirus, it's time we talked about human security

  • Written by Dennis Altman, Professorial Fellow in Human Security, La Trobe University
In the wake of bushfires and coronavirus, it's time we talked about human securityAAP/Lukas Coch

The term “human security” was first adopted by the United Nations Development Program in 1994. We speak far less of it now than we did then. Yet the cataclysmic events of this year should remind us national security is no longer to be thought of in terms of conventional warfare and military expenditure.

Put simply, human...

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