The AUKUS Public Inquiry matters more for the debate it provokes than for its dubious conclusions, because AUKUS needs ongoing popular support that can only be built and maintained through open ...

The Northern Territory has an opportunity that could shape its economy for decades. The Beetaloo Basin is about more than producing gas. Developed successfully, it could attract investment, create ...

Welcome to the latest edition of ASPI’s Fault Lines. Every fortnight, ASPI’s Defence Strategy Program monitors the actions ...

A wave of cyberattacks on European supermarkets last week exposed a vulnerability that extends well beyond refrigeration. For ...

President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party understand the professional shortcomings of the People’s Liberation Army, but they don’t have the right solution for them. They’re openly critical ...

The key verdict of the public inquiry into AUKUS lacks credibility. The privately run exercise tells us that AUKUS is ‘the ...

Australia needs to assess its ability to sustain essential purchases during prolonged digital disruption. Maintaining access to food, medicine and fuel would give the government more time and greater ...

Australia’s recruitment of 100 Papua New Guinean university students and graduates into the Australian Defence Force will almost certainly attract corruption allegations. Canberra needs to begin ...

Australia’s growing investment in integrated air and missile defence presents an opportunity to better protect the military forces and infrastructure that our national security depends on. As Defence ...

The problem with legacy technology is that nobody must make a decision about it. A system reaches the end of its supported life, the security team raises a concern, operations explains why replacement ...

During the latest Senate committee hearing on government spending, the army’s A$1.2 billion acquisition of 75 M1A2 Abrams ...