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Michael Shoebridge is the Director of the Australian Strategic and Policy Institute's  National Security Program.  He was a senior executive in the Department of Defence and was the Deputy Director of two intelligence agencies, DIO and ASD. He ran the Defence, Intelligence and Research Coordination Division in the Prime Minister's Department and was the senior policy representative for Defence in Australia'a Washington Embassy. He led the team that produced the 2013 Defence White Paper.