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In the year or so since ASPI released its National Food Security Preparedness Green Paper, its argument that Australia should strengthen its food system as a matter of national security has been reinforced with uncomfortable ...

AI companies are scoping Australia as a country for frontier AI training outside the US. They are ready to meet the government’s data centre expectations, but copyright is a time-sensitive blocker as they are not ...

Australia needs to urgently reorient its national munitions manufacturing program to build interceptor drones for dealing with cheap strike drones. This is the deafeningly loud message coming from wars in Ukraine and Iran. Australia should ...

The early reviews from fellow Republicans of President Donald Trump’s leaked, 14-point memorandum of understanding with Iran are very grim. ‘A disastrous mistake,’ says Senator Ted Cruz, from Texas. ‘This is the worst foreign policy ...

Australia and European countries are separated by geography but aligned in strategic interests. This principle is guiding a growing network of security partnerships built around countering hybrid threats. In the week of 8 June, Deputy ...

Decades ago, national security was measured in tanks, fighters and border protection. Today, it is far broader, extending across our digital networks, critical infrastructure, social cohesion and online spaces. A stronger national security future means ...

Australia and South Korea are both acquiring nuclear-powered attack submarines, a parallel step-change in their conventional deterrent capability. Though their discrete pathways to realise this common goal reflect different strategic circumstances and problems, they can ...

When then secretary of defense Jim Mattis changed the name of US Pacific Command to ‘Indo-Pacific Command’ in 2018, he said the command boundaries stretched from Bollywood to Hollywood and from polar bears to penguins. ...

The AUKUS ‘independent’ inquiry opened last week with a familiar list of concerns from long-time critics of the program. Witnesses pointed to risks ranging from the industrial base to the prospect that reactor fuel disposed ...

China’s security footprint was once confined to its immediate neighbourhood. That time is now past. Under the leadership of Xi Jinping since 2013, China has steadily extended its presence across the Indian and Pacific oceans, ...

In late February, the United States and Russia found themselves without an agreement about the disposition of their major strategic nuclear weapons for the first time in more than 20 years. The previous international agreement ...

Canberra’s Horizon 2 Action Plan, released on 11 June, and the Department of Home Affairs’ March acceptance of Jill Slay’s independent review of the Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) Act are both serious attempts to ...

Last month’s Shangri-La Dialogue again showed that the real task of sustaining maritime rules in the South China Sea had fallen to those states willing and able to uphold them. Japanese Defence Minister Koizumi underscored ...

At the centre of the web is the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification. It creates a statement or a political line, and ‘peaceful reunification’ bodies all over the world act as ...

More than a year ago, I speculated here about a connection between the forthcoming Boeing F-47, a modest technology demonstration program from the 1990s and a little-remembered pioneer of stealth. A set of images of ...

The Trump administration and AI giant Anthropic are at it again. In the latest stoush, the administration claims that security risks in the company’s new models have forced Washington to apply export controls, banning their ...

In Australia, women are only 17 percent of the cybersecurity workforce. This long-standing imbalance is a major thorn in the side of the industry and has created a critical gap in digital protection. With AI-driven threats on ...

The national intelligence community (NIC) has spent the past quarter-century building effective collection, processing and analytic capability. But if intelligence arrives in the wrong form, at the wrong speed or in a way poorly matched ...

Two recent events have exposed the reality that access to critical systems is not governed by markets or partnerships, but by sovereign authority. These events – the United States’ forced withdrawal of Anthropic’s Claude Fable ...

For a decade, the argument about technological sovereignty has turned on where data is stored. The more important question was always who controlled the system and who could switch it off. Australia has met that ...

Australia’s economic security debate still focuses on the physical elements of supply chains: mines, ports, processing plants, shipping routes and stockpiles. Beijing has moved further. China increasingly treats knowledge about supply chains as a strategic ...

Zambia’s abrupt decision to postpone RightsCon, an annual summit on human rights in the digital age, shocked organisers and those who planned to attend. The summit’s organiser, New York-based advocacy group Access Now, says the ...

U Thant’s rise to become UN secretary-general, the world’s top diplomat, was, to say the least, unlikely. Thant grew up in a small town in what was then rural Burma, at the time part of ...

Australia’s prosperity runs on systems that look permanent but depend on inputs arriving from beyond its shores. While the ships keep coming, that dependence is invisible. When they stop, it becomes the only thing that ...

A lack of meaningful context makes discussions of Australia’s foreign and national security policy too uninteresting or difficult for many young Australians to understand. This works against the long-term development of a public mandate for ...