Australia champions Indigenous rights internationally, yet the militarisation of northern Australia raises urgent questions ...

China’s push for technological self-reliance does not signal a retreat from globalisation, but a strategy to remain globally ...

Australia’s iron and steel sector shows why climate policy, industrial strategy and national security now need to be governed ...

In the final part of a six-part series on AUKUS infrastructure, Peter Briggs argues that Pillar 1 cannot deliver on schedule or budget, and that Australia should pause its HEU pathway and assess ...

Australia cannot control wars and political upheavals overseas, but it can choose whether those conflicts are allowed to fuel division, suspicion and hatred at home. Australia cannot stop wars ...

Victorian Labor’s crisis is not just about leadership, but a decade of governing as though its western and north-western ...

Films about nuclear war have often been dismissed by officials as inaccurate, alarmist or merely fictional, but their real ...

On re-election in May 2025, Anthony Albanese pledged to run a “disciplined and orderly” government – hardly ‘the light on the ...

The 2026 Census is expected to mark more than a demographic milestone, with new Islamic denomination categories offering a ...

Hyperscale data centres are adding new pressure to already stressed freshwater systems, testing whether governments can allocate, monitor and protect water fairly. Water resources around the globe are ...

G Venkat Raman is Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Indore. He is a Fulbright Fellow and holds a PhD from Peking University's School of Government. He has lived, studied and conducted ...

The danger of nuclear war does not begin and end with Donald Trump, but with a failing system of nation states, militarised ...