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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s first major speech on artificial intelligence on Wednesday emphatically, if belatedly, elevated AI to where it belongs as a national priority. In particular, he made the crucial declaration that the government ...

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke is right to reject the proposed removal of religious motivation from Australia’s terrorism laws. The proposal by the nation’s special envoy to combat Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, rests on a fundamental ...

The restructuring of Japan’s intelligence capability around new central agencies will support deeper cooperation with Australia. This sentiment was outlined in a joint statement during Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s visit to Australia in May. ...

The Chinese military’s latest promotion of new generals should not be viewed simply as an effort to fill vacancies but as part of its reconstruction following purges of senior leadership. These changes highlight that President ...

Australia and India are set to be more prescriptive and streamlined in their joint cyber initiatives, through a new partnership launched last week. On 9 July, the two countries unveiled the Partnership on Cyber, Critical ...

Australia’s complacent, reactive posture towards the polar regions is no longer tenable. Canberra cannot continue treating the poles as peripheral scientific domains best managed through diplomacy. Strategic competition in the polar regions should be viewed ...

Could another country replace China as the world’s economic growth leader, or could China reset for a new phase of economic leadership? This is the key question Joe Ngai and Nick Leung address in their ...

Could another country replace China as the world’s economic growth leader, or could China reset for a new phase of economic leadership? This is the key question Joe Ngai and Nick Leung address in their ...

There is growing debate within the global space policy community about whether space is becoming a ‘warfighting domain’. As adversaries develop increasingly sophisticated counterspace capabilities, Australia should consider how to strengthen resilience and assure access ...

The Taliban has issued a decree that further enables child marriages in Afghanistan and restricts women’s and girls’ ability to leave such unions. As the repression accelerates, Australia should build on its record of holding ...

The proposed US Marine Corps war reserve stockpile at Bandiana should trigger a sharper Australian debate than the one now unfolding. Can Australia and its allies can turn those stocks into operational effect at the ...

Australia is probably overestimating Pine Gap’s support for our place in the US alliance. It’s no longer irreplaceable. The reasons the joint US–Australian intelligence facility sits in the central desert rather than on a Pacific ...

Lessons from the US–Iran war will be long analysed, but as neighbouring Gulf states grapple with the fallout, one clear message is that countries close to a conflict cannot choose the effect it has on ...

The sudden and unexpected passing of Senator Lindsey Graham at age 71 will directly affect how the United States conducts itself around the globe, and for the better. The Republican from South Carolina was the ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-day visit to Australia last week delivered substantial outcomes, especially in the defence and security sector. Amid growing unease about relying on the United States to resist China, Australia and India ...

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) should evolve into a formal cybersecurity regulator, with a role comparable in principle to what the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) does in Australia’s health sector. The ACSC would have ...

At sea, drones are disruptive, but they are not decisive. They complicate the maritime fight, but they do not replace the enduring strategic logic of sea power. Combat in the Black Sea and Persian Gulf ...

Australia has spent decades optimising infrastructure for efficiency. Strategic competition requires infrastructure optimised for endurance. Governments routinely invest billions of dollars in widening motorways, upgrading commuter corridors and improving urban transport networks…

Australia needs to make a choice: build a national critical minerals workforce or rely on foreign talent that is in short supply. The country needs to nurture its own geologists and engineers who can run ...

China’s military is integrating AI into logistics to make sustainment faster, better coordinated and able to support operations over greater distances. But the very features that deliver those gains in peacetime also expose the system ...

In 2026, Beijing is making international engagement with Taiwan more costly. China has long sought to narrow Taiwan’s international space and make unification appear inevitable without resorting to force. But this year, that campaign has ...

Northern Australia has become a nationally significant strategic operating environment. Its industrial continuity, infrastructure resilience and sovereign capability directly shape Australia’s ability to withstand coercion, disruption and strategic competition. The region sits at…

Australia is leaving its market exposed to goods tied to Uyghur forced labour. As the United States and European Union move to block such goods, countries with weaker import controls risk becoming destination markets for ...

People are missing the most important implication from China’s test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Monday. It’s not the signalling of China’s power, though that was almost certainly in there. In part, it’s ...

The Pacific seabed is no longer an empty space between nations. It is becoming one of the most strategically crowded environments in the region. That crowding is producing a qualitatively different strategic environment – one ...