Australia, so dependent on Britain for AUKUS, needn’t worry about new Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s commitment to defence or about opportunities for cooperation. If the new prime minister’s perceived ...

Islands should be understood as a national security asset, not just a conservation zone. This demands a whole-of-government approach coordinated by Australia’s Department of Defence, other ...

On 6 to 7 August 2026, Philippine Secretary of National Defense Gilbert Teodoro visited Darwin on the tail end of Exercise ...

Australia’s strategic thinking, increasingly focused on deterrence, has yet to distinguish the conditions that make deterrence effective from the framework through which Australia intends to implement ...

The Australian Defence Force is on a strong trajectory to become an integrated force greater than the sum of its parts, incorporating all five domains. Competition for people and resources across the ...

Australia should open talks on joining the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) now, before the institution’s lending rules are written without an Indo-Pacific member at the table. The DSRB is ...

In his fireside with former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon at the 2026 ASPI Defence Conference, Senator James Paterson took ...

American gun rights advocates are fond of saying that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun ...

Generating operational mass in the Indo-Pacific requires new approaches to projecting, sustaining and employing military ...

Australia has a new chief of the defence force, Admiral Mark Hammond, and here are three issues he should take on as he ...

No one should expect diplomatic pressure alone to make Beijing abandon a sovereignty claim. Ten years ago this month, a ...

In Australian foreign policy, there has long been a tension between those who place preponderant weight on our alliance ...