By allowing more asylum seekers and refugees to apply for visas through complementary pathways, Australia can help discourage boat journeys and make a real difference to global needs in the process, Claire Higgins writes.

In the final National Security Podcast of the year, Rory Medcalf and Katherine Mansted discuss why press freedom matters to national security, look back on the big issues of 2019 and tell us what to look out for in national security in 2020.

For this special Democracy Sausage pod, we bring you a live event recording of Mark Kenny in conversation with Peter Hartcher on his new Quarterly Essay, Red Flag: Waking Up to China's Challenge.

What was your favourite Policy Forum Pod episode of the year? On this final podcast of 2019, we put on our festive jumpers and gather around the Christmas tree in our podcast cupboard to look at our presenters’, and some of our listeners’ favourite episodes.

With digitalisation creating a wave of change across society, governments need to respond with good policy. Policies protecting encryption, investing in education and research, and creating better systems to store data are crucial, but they don’t seem to be forthcoming, Lesley Seebeck writes.

In this episode of the National Security Podcast, Chris Farnham speaks to Dr Gorana Grgic and Dr Charles Edel from the United States Studies Centre. The panel discuss what President Donald Trump's potential impeachment means for US foreign policy and the national security of America’s allies and partners.