The Pacific’s patchwork of national policies and voluntary regional frameworks often falls short of delivering unified, ...

Australia’s strategic risk has increased significantly, and the government needs to increase its defence spending to match it ...

The ASPI Defence Conference in June highlighted the critical importance of national preparedness and resilience to ...

A cyberattack on a Qantas call centre, revealed last week, put cyber risk back in the headlines, as did similar attacks on ...

Australia’s ability to generate breakthrough ideas has never been in doubt. But despite increasing recognition of the need ...

In Canberra, it’s called taking out the trash. Late on Friday, 27 June, the Department of Defence quietly issued a media ...

The Quad must formalise through a permanent secretariat and expand to include South Korea and New Zealand to remain relevant to Indo-Pacific security. Now is the time to assess whether the group’s ...

Susan Hutchinson is a civil-military professional with experience in government, military and non-government organisations. Susan is undertaking a PhD at the Australian National University’s Coral ...

Amid worsening strategic surprise and security fragility, Australia’s national resilience responses are just as important as its defence capabilities. While the original strategic logic for the ...

When it comes to innovation, Australia has a strategy problem as much as a delivery problem. The first is about purpose. The second is about execution. I recently argued that Australia’s innovation ...

Since 2018 the Australian government has made serious strides in countering espionage and foreign interference, including introducing policy and legislative reforms aimed at protecting the research ...

In an era of escalating strategic competition, the effectiveness of Australia’s government and national security apparatus hinges on its ability to use information with precision and agility. Yet, the ...