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PODCAST: Black Hawk capability, B-21 bomber debate, and upcoming budget
Questions remain around Australia’s defence modernisation efforts. Can the nation continue expanding advanced capabilities while...
New digs: QinetiQ Australia launches new Melbourne office
QinetiQ Australia has officially opened a new state-of-the-art Melbourne office, marking a major expansion of the company’s Aust...
Hanwha Aerospace signs new rocket launcher deal with Estonia
Hanwha Aerospace has announced that it will supply three additional Chunmoo multiple rocket launcher systems to the Estonian Defen...
Black Hawks lead ADF counter-terrorism training in Melbourne
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has conducted a range of aviation-based counter-terrorism training activities in Victoria.
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Digital transformation at the centre of Five Eyes summit
Defence and technology leaders from Five Eyes nations have deepened cooperation on digital transformation at the Combined Digital ...
Opinion
The Hormuz precedent: Maritime tolls and the future of global shipping
Iran has effectively set up a maritime toll booth in the Strait of Hormuz. The United States has threatened to sanction anyone who pays the toll, yet...
May 11 2026
Australia’s manufacturing problem is not capability, it’s control
Opinion: Australia’s manufacturing problem is not capability. It is control.
April 30 2026
Honouring sacrifice: Taking ourselves seriously is the least we can do
Anzac Day is widely held as the most sacred day in Australia’s national calendar. A day when the country comes together to commemorate the sacrifice of the nation’s best...
April 28 2026
Behind the hoopla, the government is leaving our military badly underequipped in the drone era
Opinion: The government’s headline $7 billion counter-drone plan is largely smoke and mirrors, spreading funds over a decade into legacy systems while leaving Australia...
April 23 2026
Is Australian soft power losing currency in a rapidly hardening world?
It’s been called the collapse of the global rules-based order.
April 22 2026
Industry expresses mixed views on 2026 National Defence Strategy
The 2026 National Defence Strategy has been welcomed with mixed reviews from industry leaders and defence strategists, with both critiques and praises coming through.
April 20 2026
Stuffed it: Middle East adventures throw economy, allies and stability into disarray
Opinion: By now it is pretty clear that the conflict in the Middle East responsible for constraining at least 20–25 per cent of the world’s oil supply is going from bad...
April 02 2026
Information sharing of cyber threats vital to national security
Opinion: Modern conflict shows cyber operations and rapid intelligence sharing are essential to national resilience, but Australia must overcome legal, cultural and technical...
April 01 2026
AUKUS submarines: US and UK partners show the realities facing Australia’s small fleet
Opinion: Even in a best-case scenario, Australia’s eight nuclear submarines would likely produce only about two consistently deployable boats due to maintenance, workforce...
March 30 2026
From Pine Gap to HMAS Stirling: Australia must reclaim strategic authorship
Opinion: Australia risks remaining legally sovereign while effectively operating within allied military systems unless it asserts greater control over how its territory is...
March 30 2026
Trump the unilateralist becomes Trump the multilateralist – for now
Opinion: Donald Trump’s administration is now urging other countries to secure the Strait of Hormuz, exposing both American strategic misjudgement and Australia’s...
March 17 2026
Pentagon pushes to accelerate weapons procurement as strategic competition intensifies
Opinion: The United States is overhauling defence procurement to deliver military technology faster, expand industry competition and harness commercial innovation, explains...
March 16 2026
Ignorance is bliss: Technological self-denial is death on the modern battlefield
On the modern battlefield, technology developed by Iran, Russia and China has often been characterised as being copied or adapted from Western designs.
March 13 2026
Japan turns to dual-use technology to power a new defence industrial strategy
Opinion: Japan is rapidly integrating dual-use technologies and civilian innovation into its defence strategy to strengthen supply chains, expand defence exports and deepen...
March 11 2026
Energy-minerals-defence: Australia’s sovereign trinity
Opinion: Australia must shift its sovereignty focus from labelling industries to strengthening interconnected systems like energy security, critical minerals access, and...
March 05 2026
Washington’s Iran gamble and Australia’s strategic stakes
Opinion: A strike on the United States Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain underscores the escalating conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran, with the outcome likely to...
March 03 2026
Intergenerational warfare: The social cohesion issue no one wants to broach
With much of Australia’s political and policy discourse since 14 December focused on social cohesion and the intersection with national security, why have we failed to...
February 25 2026
Surveillance technology: Is it really that bad?
Drones, invasive software, data mining tools and other forms of digital surveillance are increasingly critical features of modern warfare.
February 19 2026
Turkey’s Pacific play: Systemic entrenchment inside Australia’s threshold
Opinion: Turkey has quietly built long-term diplomatic, institutional and political influence across the Pacific – leveraging development aid, elite engagement and...
February 19 2026
From experiment to imperative: Uncrewed surface vessels and the future of Indo‑Pacific security
Opinion: Wind back the clock to 2002. The US Navy’s Enterprise Carrier Strike Group is preparing for an extended combat deployment to the Persian Gulf.
February 17 2026
