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Deterrence and the 2024 National Defence Strategy – what else is missing?
Opinion: The 2024 National Defence Strategy marks a significant shift in aligning Australia’s defence posture with a more contested strategic...
June 10 2025
Facing a perfect storm: Australia remains all at sea amid mounting geopolitical, economic pressures
The world we once knew is now well and truly a thing of the past and Australia has been slow in responding to the myriad of economic, political, security and social...
June 09 2025
Machine war: How AI and other technologies are shaping the fighting in Gaza
Artificial intelligence and facial recognition technologies are an essential part of the IDF’s targeting doctrine – here’s how it works, where it might...
June 06 2025
Divesting from Defence: Australia’s zero risk policy is killing domestic innovation
Queensland’s AEP Engineering owner, Mick McMillan, is a very public face for many small-to-medium defence suppliers across Australia.
June 05 2025
It’s all in the strategy: Expert warns as debate about defence spending heats up
As debate over Australia’s defence spending intensifies, a glimmer of clarity emerged: strategic policy expert Sam Roggeveen has challenged the alignment between our...
June 04 2025
Budgeting for an enhanced ready force
Opinion: If the strategic environment is driving an enhanced need to bulk up the capabilities of the ready force, where will the money come from to do so? And just as...
June 03 2025
Shirking our responsibility? PM pushes back against US request to increase defence spending
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has resisted the Trump administration’s pressure to rapidly lift Australia’s defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP amid rising...
June 02 2025
Report: Australia can learn a lot from Finland about national preparedness
It may seem a long bow to pull that a smaller nation like Finland can teach Australia about national self-defence, but nothing could be further from the truth.
May 30 2025
Saving the Titanic: Ministerial defence priorities in the government’s new term
Opinion: If you choose a metaphor for Defence in the Labor government’s second term, it might be the Titanic, warns Griffith Asia Institute’s Dr Peter Layton.
May 29 2025
Australia’s nuclear moment: Time to break the taboo
Opinion: Anthony Albanese’s victory on 3 May 2025 marked a crossroads for Australian national security. With a secured majority, Albanese can reshape Australia’s...
May 28 2025
Rethinking the choice: Why Australia needs both a balanced and a focused force
Opinion: The rapidly deteriorating geopolitical and strategic environment has been used to legitimise the dramatic shift in Australia’s defence policy and posture...
May 27 2025
5 elections in 2 months reveal startlingly familiar electoral interference playbooks
Vote early, vote often? Elections in Portugal, the Philippines, Romania, Canada, and Australia have revealed a common thread of tactics to influence elections around the...
May 26 2025
Shortsighted decision making must end or risk it all
Opinion: In the face of escalating global threats and strategic uncertainty, Andrew Wallace MP argues that Australia must abandon short-term political thinking and urgently...
May 22 2025
National Audit Office says Defence falls short on Australian industry participation, contract requirements
The Australian National Audit Office has recently found that “Defence has not maximised Australian industry participation through the administration of its...
May 22 2025
Let him cook: Maybe Trump is on to something with his ‘Raptor Super’ idea
No stranger to controversy, US President Donald Trump set a cat among the pigeons with statements about the development of an upgraded F-35, a dual-engine variant, the F-55...
May 21 2025
Serious comorbidity: Chinese ‘spy tech’ in solar systems should raise Australia’s alarms
Recent revelations that Chinese-made solar inverters and other technologies were compromised by “rogue” communication devices underscore the People’s...
May 20 2025
‘Complex interdependence’ as the central pillar of Australia’s grand strategy
Australia’s security and economic ties have been shaped by global interactions, with conflict and geopolitical rivalry often redefining its role in the world. Today,...
May 19 2025
Divine mandate: Chinese-linked cyber activity is the most common form of hybrid threat facing Australia
Cyber attacks were the most common form of hybrid threat faced by Australia in the last decade, but economic coercion and foreign interference are not far behind.
May 16 2025
Future of fighting predictions: What to expect at Talisman Sabre 2025
Australia is set to host more than 30,000 military personnel during its largest-ever Exercise Talisman Sabre from July this year. But what strategy can we expect, and which...
May 15 2025
Australia needs to prepare to confront a ‘deglobalising’ world
With the future of the neoliberal “globalised” world order in doubt, contrasted by the rise of multiple, competing centres of economic, political and strategic...
May 14 2025
