RUSI NSW

RUSI NSW Lecture Tuesday 30 June 2026

Topic: The Defence Strategic Review 2026 Update

Speaker: Associate Professor Adam Lockyer, School of International Studies at Macquarie University

About the speaker: A/Prof. Lockyer has published widely on issues relating to Australian defence strategy, US defence and foreign policy, post-conflict reconstruction, governance and insurgency. His article titled "The Logic of Interoperability: Australia's Acquisition of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter" won the SAGE Award for the best international contribution to a Canadian academic journal in 2013. His article entitled "Evaluating Civil Development in Counterinsurgency Operations" won the prestigious Boyer Prize for best original article published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs in 2012. His forthcoming book is titled: Conventional Maritime Deterrence: The Operational Foundations of Influence at Sea (Georgetown University Press).

Lecture at the Anzac Memorial Auditorium, Hyde Park South, Sydney 1pm -2pm

Everyone is welcome - Networking Opportunity and Pre-lecture lunch – 12noon -1pm

RUSI NSW Members: FREE admission, Non-members: $15
ADF serving personnel: FREE admission.

Pre-paid sandwiches served at 12.00am
Book and pay by the Friday before the event or pay at the door.
To order and pay via credit card - https://rusinsw.org.au/site/ActPay.php
Or send an email to our office: [email protected]

Plan a great day put at Government House

Anzac Memorial's newest exhibition: Lustre
An artwork exhibition inspired by the Allied campaigns in Greece and Crete in 1941. Entry is free Auditorium, Lower Floor 15 May - 15 July 2026
The clever Librarians in the Ursula Davidson Library have created a reading list about the Lustre Force and to compliment the event.

The reading list includes the unique collection of the Lustre Force despatches submitted to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and first hand accounts of combined Australian, New Zealand and British army units deployed to protect Greece from N**i attack in 1941.

Download the reading list here -https://rusinsw.org.au/Reading_List/Greece.pdf
All are welcome to come to the library and read these interesting books.

#1941

Australia’s Critical Infrastructure in the Grey Zone: analysing our evolving digital & social attack environment.

Speaker: Mr Edward Farrell, CEO and Principal Consultant
Mercury Information Security Services

RUSI NSW Lecture Tuesday 26 May 2026
Lecture at the Anzac Memorial Auditorium, Hyde Park South, Sydney 1pm - 2pm
Networking from 12noon to 1pm - all are welcome.

Everyone is welcome - RUSI NSW Members: FREE admission, Visitors: $15, ADF serving personnel: FREE admission.

Pre-ordered and paid sandwiches served at 12.00am
Book and pay by the Friday before the event or pay at the door.
To order and pay via credit card - https://rusinsw.org.au/site/ActPay.php
Or send an email to our office: [email protected] or call: (02) 8262 2922 with any questions.

Images sourced from the speaker and WikiMedia Commons

Want to learn how you can turn memories into written stories and discover practical steps for uncovering your family’s military service?
Join author Ned Manning Author and RUSI NSW Librarian Carrol Miller for a hands-on workshop at the Anzac Memorial exploring the art of researching, shaping, and sharing personal and family stories.

Ned Manning is a writer, actor and teacher, with a career spanning decades across Australian theatre. In 2023, he published his first novel, Painting the Light – a story of love, idealism and commitment to social change in a time of deep conservatism, loosely based on the story of his parents.

Carrol Miller holds a Master of Arts in History from the University of Sydney. She taught History and English for many years in a number of Independent schools in Sydney. Currently she volunteers as a librarian at the RUSI Library in the Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park.

📅 Saturday 23 May 2026
🕙 10:00am – 12:30pm, including a morning tea break
📍 Anzac Memorial Memorial, Hyde Park or online via Microsoft Teams
Places are limited.
Book your spot now 👉
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/everyone-has-a-story-to-tell-workshop-tickets-1982259453386?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

On Anzac Day 25th April, we commemorate the anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli in 1915. It is a day on which we also remember all Australians who served and died in war and on operational
service. The Javelin Collection includes a monograph entitled “Anatomy of a bunker battle – an action replay from the Hat Dich in South Vietnam” by David Wilkins OAM, which gives an account
of heroic Australian soldiers who fought in the true spirit of the Anzac tradition.
Rarely during the Vietnam War did an infantryman involved in a battle ever experience an “action replay”, but that is what happened to Lieutenant Ian Hosie and his soldiers of 7 Platoon, C Company,
the 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), who had been embroiled in a prolonged engagement with an aggressive enemy on 31st July 1969.
Here is a direct link to Monograph :https://rusinsw.au/Monographs/Monograph9.pdf



Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=australian+5th+Battalion+vietnam&title=Special%3AMediaSearch&type=image

Special Interest Group on Strategy: Current Geostrategic Issues for April 2026

• Strategy 101, Australia
• Russo-Ukrainian War – by David Leece
• The Yemen War – by David Deasey
• Afghan / Pakistan War – by David Deasey
• US 2026 Threat Assessment – by David Deasey
• Exercise ‘Balikatan 2026’ – by Paul Burnard
• US Military Assistance to the Philippines – by Paul Burnard

View it here: https://rusinsw.org.au/SIG_S/SIGS202604.php



Image: Orthographic maps of the world, centred on the Hormuz Straight, annotated with oil delivery shipping lines and approximate
delivery time. By Gringer https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oil_Deliveries_From_Hormuz.svg

World War 1 Postcard Exhibition
An exhibition of postcards of the Great War taken from the collection of the late Australian military historian, John Laffin

Ursula Davidson Library, Lower Floor

Entry is free Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 4.00pm
20 April - 30 September 2026

https://www.anzacmemorial.nsw.gov.au/event/world-war-1-postcard-exhibition