Remote Antarctica is becoming more accessible. Tourist numbers down south have grown significantly, along with calls for greater regulation. China’s Antarctic program is moving ahead: it will build its fifth research station on Inexpressible Island …
Scarcity of food and energy is a growing problem due to the effects of climate change. Some arid areas may run out of water and food. The graph above shows per capita water supply in water-stressed countries …
It’s a game changer. In the next few years, there’ll be year-round access to our polar real estate. Last Friday the Minister for the Environment and Energy Josh Frydenberg and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced …
Established late last year, the Department of Home Affairs has initiated changes in both governance arrangements and thinking about national security in an all-hazards context. The changes continue apace. Last month the Minister for Law …
Pacific island states face a pressing need to understand more about what’s happening in the waters that surround them and to work more closely to deal with threats and crises. Maritime security-related issues represent some …
Beijing claims the South China Sea as China’s own. But it completely rejects any notion that the Indian Ocean should be treated either as India’s ocean or as an Indian preserve. The implications of these …
The Western Australian parliament’s Community Development and Justice Standing Committee is currently examining the protection of crowded places in WA from terrorist acts. The inquiry is yet another example of how the states play a …
This week in Sydney, Standards Australia, the peak national standards development body, will host over 100 leading security experts from 45 countries. The security and resilience conference aims to make progress on standards to reduce …
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently revealed that Israeli intelligence had shared information with our security agencies that foiled an Islamic State plot to blow up an Etihad flight from Sydney last July. Police arrested …
Australia has always been the big fish in our Pacific pond, although we haven’t always lived up to our grand rhetoric of Pacific leadership. In the recent foreign policy white paper, Australia pledged to step …
Some watershed changes have been announced across our national security domain this year. A home affairs department is being established to act as a ‘portfolio agency’ for ASIO, the AFP, the Australian Border Force, the …
We can’t sit back while others engage in hard and soft power strategies to win influence, not if Australia is to positively shape the Indo-Pacific. That is one of the key messages of last week’s …
