Plate 23 Dr Fedor Mediansky, Professor Paul Dibb and Professor Desmond Ball, at an SDSC conference, c. 1984

Plate 24 Leszek Buszynski and Ross Babbage, senior research fellows, establishing the first SDSC Master’s Program, 1987

Plate 25 Tina Lynham, administrator, SDSC Graduate Program, 1987–98

Plate 26 Denis McLean, visiting fellow, and Jena Hamilton, research assistant (1989–2002), 1989

Plate 27 Stewart Woodman, Sandy Gordon and Mike Gilligan, senior research fellows, Kioloa, 1992

Plate 28 Professor Paul Dibb, head of SDSC, Kioloa, 1992

Plate 29 Elza Sullivan, secretary; Helen Hookey, research assistant; and Liu Jinkun, visiting fellow, Kioloa, 1991

Plate 30 Dr L. Buszynski; Professor R.G. Ward, director of the Research School of Pacific Studies; Mr Kenneth R. Peacock, Rockwell Australia;

and Professor Desmond Ball, October 1992

Plate 31 Alexander Downer, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade; Professor Paul Dibb and Professor Robert O’Neill, at SDSC’s

30th anniversary conference, 1996

Plate 32 Professor Robert O’Neill and Professor Paul Dibb, Yukio Satoh, Japanese ambassador to Australia, and Professor Desmond Ball,

at SDSC’s 30th anniversary conference, 1996

Plate 33 16th Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Steering Committee meeting, Canberra, December 2001

Plate 34 Colin Plowman, Tun Tun Aung, Professor Desmond Ball and a Thai army ranger, on the Salween River, June 2002

Plate 35 Dr Alan Dupont, senior research fellow, at an SDSC media briefing on the Iraq War, March 2003

Plate 36 Professor Desmond Ball, Dr Ron Huisken, senior research fellow, and Ray Funnell, at an SDSC media briefing on the Iraq War, March 2003

Plate 37 Professor Paul Dibb, the Hon. Kim Beazley, and Professor Hugh White, head of SDSC, at Dibb’s retirement dinner, May 2005

Plate 38 Professor James Fox, director of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Professor Paul Dibb and Professor Hugh White,

at Dibb’s retirement dinner, May 2005

Plate 39 Professor David Horner at the launch of his book Strategic Command, 6 June 2005

Plate 40 Meredith Thatcher, research assistant; Dr Coral Bell, visiting fellow; Dr Brendan Taylor, post-doctoral fellow; and Betty McFarlane, at the investiture of Bell’s Order of Australia (AO), Government House,

Canberra, 2 September 2005

Plate 41 The Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence (GSSD) team: Dr Chris Chung, deputy director; Ms Ping Yu, program administrator;

Dr Robert Ayson, director; Mrs Sarah Flint, deputy program administrator; and Dr Brendan Taylor, lecturer, April 2006

Plate 42 SDSC staff with the GSSD students, Kioloa, April 2006

This text is taken from A National Asset: 50 Years of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, edited by Desmond Ball and Andrew Carr,

published 2016 by ANU Press, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.