Australia in 2025 stands at a perilous crossroads. Once-clear boundaries between economic prosperity and national security have blurred. The collision of severe geoeconomic headwinds with escalating military tensions and rapid and diffused technological advancement demands immediate, unwavering, …
ASPI’s Cost of Defence 2025–26, published yesterday, revealed that Australia risked trailing its peers in the region, Five Eyes and Europe unless the government promptly found additional money for defence. It acknowledged that the government …
Introduction of mandatory ransomware payment reporting in Australia today is a welcome development. But it won’t reach its full potential as a cybersecurity mechanism unless the government openly shares what it learns from these reports. …
As UN peacekeeping faces an uncertain future, Australia can step up to support this multilateral tool and shape the next phase of UN peace operations. Through greater and more targeted investment in UN peacekeeping and …
The crisis in Xinjiang, where more than 1 million Uyghurs endure mass detention, forced labour and cultural erasure, is one of the most defining human rights challenges of our time. As the world’s largest Muslim-majority …
Sea state The Australian government donated drones and operator training worth just under $1 million to the Philippine coast guard in early May. The gift of 20 aerial drones and training by drone operators from …
Australia’s strategic environment is more threatening than it has been since World War II. Despite public recognition of heightened threats and a declaration of ambitious strategic goals, the government’s defence funding and preparedness efforts fall …
