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Podcast: ASPI Podcast: Policy, Guns & Money
Episode: Politics and Covid-19 in Timor-Leste, protests in Hong Kong and USA, police reform in the USA
Description: In this episode of Policy, Guns & Money, ASPI researcher Genevieve Feely speaks to Robert Baird, English Editor at Tatoli News, about recent political developments in Timor-Leste, including the challenge of a failed state budget, and the country’s Covid-19 response.
Senior Analyst Kelsey Munro speaks to the Director of ASPI’s Defence, Strategy and National Security Program, Michael Shoebridge about the protests in Hong Kong and the United States, the parallels and differences between the two protests and what this means in the context of the global contest between authoritarianism and democracy.
And Leanne Close, head of ASPI’s Counter-terrorism Progra...