While fuel shortages attract attention, disruptions to shipments in fertilisers or chemicals are just as damaging to our ...

The state visit of King Frederik and Queen Mary of Denmark to Australia, that starting last Saturday, is an important ...

Food supply is long overdue for elevation into national security policy. As The Australian reported on 19 February, there are ...

If China chose to blockade Taiwan instead of, or as a prelude to, invading it, the island nation and its high-tech economy would go dark with shocking speed as stockpiles of natural gas, coal and ...

Australians are learning an uncomfortable lesson about maritime power. The conflict in the Middle East and threats to tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz have pushed oil prices sharply higher ...

When the vice-chancellor of Charles Darwin University (CDU) resigned following vocational-training accreditation failures, the public response centred on leadership accountability. That focus is ...

My parents fled Iran after the revolution as political dissidents, but exile did not end their fight. The struggle for ...

Australia is experiencing a once-in-a-generation energy build-out. Offshore wind and distributed energy systems are being ...

In a startling warning during his trip to Canberra this week, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said global security ...

Security concerns drove the Australian government’s 2025 decision to bring Darwin Port, currently leased to Chinese company ...

One factor should dominate global strategic policymaking today: that the Strait of Hormuz will re-open only with the consent of the Iranian government. No amount of US naval power can either force ...

Allied governments want resilient critical mineral supply chains. Investors want contracted revenue. Capital does not finance separation plants and magnet facilities based on strategic aspiration; it ...