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In Australian foreign policy, there has long been a tension between those who place preponderant weight on our alliance relationship with the United States and those who argue for drawing a greater sense of security ...

American gun rights advocates are fond of saying that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, meaning more guns in the hands of law-abiding ...

The Australian Army and the Northern Territory government are aligned on defence strategy. The next step is implementation. The 2026 National Defence Strategy (NDS), released on 16 April, established Australia’s strategic direction for an era ...

In the South China Sea, China is expanding its presence in disputed waters and adopting increasingly dangerous tactics against neighbouring states. At the same time, it is challenging the centrality of the United Nations Convention ...

The success of Australia’s nuclear submarine program will depend on whether workforce, education and migration policy can keep pace with defence ambition. AUKUS, especially its submarine element, Pillar One, has become much more than a ...

Australia needs a government-led national audit to identify where it is most vulnerable to interruption of critical overseas supply. Once the audit is complete, every available policy lever should be used to implement its recommendations ...

The Australia–Japan quasi-alliance is not a hedge against US unreliability, nor should it be seen in purely bilateral terms. Rather, it is emblematic of a broader pattern I call ‘stewarding’, in which core US allies in Europe and the Indo-Pacific reinforce the United States-led o…

While Australia correctly prioritises the development of domestic industry, the Australian Defence Force is not a sufficient customer to sustain deep industrial capacity across every capability. A central takeaway, from multiple sessions at the 2026 ...

Indonesia’s defence policy is moving in two directions at once. Externally, it is pursuing procurement and modernisation while expanding defence diplomacy, training and international engagement. But domestically, its military focus is shaped by a broad ...

China won the first critical minerals contest while Australia, India, Japan and the United States were still debating supply-chain resilience. Beijing’s advantage didn’t stem from superior mineral reserves. Australia alone holds globally significant deposits of ...

The Australian Army has completed a two-year internal review into the state of the profession and institutional reform targeting command accountability. This period of introspection addressed what Lieutenant General Simon Stuart, the 41st chief of ...

Kyle Wilson, a diplomat and intelligence analyst who was one of Australia’s most influential and globally respected experts on Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, has died aged 76 after a long illness. Most things about Kyle were ...

The problem with legacy technology is not that organisations do not know the risks. It is that no mechanism forces a decision. Ownership is distributed across operators, boards, procurement teams, regulators and ministers until responsibility effectively disappears and unsupporte…

For no good reason that anyone can see, much of the infrastructure spending for building Australian nuclear submarines is bypassing public accountability. Of the two main sites for AUKUS Pillar One, the one at Henderson, ...

The visit to Australia this week by Kimi Onoda, Japan’s minister responsible for science, technology and economic security, is a reminder that the strength of the Australia–Japan relationship depends on the depth of its economic ...

This week’s visit to Australia by Japanese Minister of State for Economic Security Kimi Onoda offers the country an opportunity to ensure its natural abundance of critical minerals can play a key role in Japan’s ...

From 2027, Australia will host under the AUKUS agreement a US submarine force at HMAS Stirling, near Perth. It will be known as Submarine Rotational Force–West (SRF–W) and will consist of up to four US ...

Throughout the Russia–Ukraine war, special operations forces (SOF, or SSO in Ukrainian) have conducted many raids and missions to probe enemy defensive positions. Examples include Ukraine’s use of SOF probing operations in Bryansk and Kursk ...

Australian foreign minister Penny Wong didn’t just pledge valuable surveillance drones to the Philippines this week; she pledged technology made in Australia and the United States, not in China. This means a decision was made ...

At the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore in May, Defence Minister Richard Marles described attacks on global subsea cable infrastructure as ‘historically unprecedented’ in scale and frequency. Since November 2024, vessels have severed fibre optic cables ...

When Indo-Pacific democratic governments unite in publicly criticising China’s military provocations, the European Union should join – just as countries such as Australia and Japan do in response to Russia’s ongoing aggression. When a Chinese ...

Perception is now part of strategy in the Indo-Pacific. The United States’ partners must not only contribute more but be seen to be contributing more if they want it to stay invested in regional stability. ...

Australia should build more of its AI data centres in the north. The physical infrastructure that powers AI has become a strategic national security issue, not simply a collection of commercial assets but a critical ...

Just hours after Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Fiji on 6 July to agree enhance cooperation with the island state, Beijing fired a ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean. Australia swiftly deplored the ‘provocative ...

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has publicly put the full weight of Australia’s strategic messaging, funding and capabilities behind strengthening the Philippines and defending international rules. In an era in which international rules have been declared ...