The Australian government’s decision to curtail the Inland Rail Project was politically brave. Governments rarely walk away from troubled megaprojects once billions have been spent and expectations have hardened. Yet the real issue sits well …
Most Australians already know something is wrong with our information environment. An Australian National University survey of 20,000 average Australians found disinformation consistently ranked among top national security concerns. Participants rated it as more serious …
Strategic competition now extends far beyond military capability and economic strength. Liberal democracies therefore have a strategic interest in cultivating a confident civic patriotism that strengthens social cohesion, reinforces institutional legitimacy and supports national resilience. …
In January, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told the World Economic Forum something that Western democracies have long known but rarely said in public. The rules-based international order, he observed, was always a pleasant fiction. …
The most dangerous assumption in current contingency planning is that any war, even a regional war involving the United States, would be short. Four interacting forces would make high-intensity regional conflicts hard to terminate: regime …
China’s pressure on Taiwan increasingly relies on vessels that aren’t warships. Instead, Beijing is deploying a maritime grey-zone fleet: a network of civilian and paramilitary vessels used to harass, intimidate and probe Taiwan while remaining …
AI is the most consequential technology we will ever create. The visit by Japan’s pro-industry Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to Australia this week was a chance to bind our efforts with those of a natural …
