Australia should pay attention to emerging drone technology in countries to its north and the opportunities they offer for lessons and collaboration. The Northern Territory can serve as a hub for that cooperation through testing, …
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The Australia-Indonesia Foreign and Defence Ministers’ Meeting in Melbourne on 26 August turned both countries’ expanding treaty architecture into practical cooperation for building shared resilience. The meeting brought together Australian and Indonesian foreign ministers Penny …
Few bilateral relationships matter more to Australia than the one with Indonesia, and few have changed as much over the past 25 years. It is almost forgotten that Australia’s Cold War defence strategy was built …
As digital threats increasingly span across domains, cross-institutional cooperation is becoming central to national security. Australia needs to fuse cyber, physical and information-based threat indicators into one operational picture before crises emerge. Australia’s national-security system …
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has publicly put the full weight of Australia’s strategic messaging, funding and capabilities behind strengthening the Philippines and defending international rules. In an era in which international rules have been declared …
Addressing the common threats facing the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific will require effective cross-regional mechanisms. Hybrid threats are among the most pertinent given their increasingly transnational, multidimensional and persistent nature. The European Union and Australia, given …
Australia and European countries are separated by geography but aligned in strategic interests. This principle is guiding a growing network of security partnerships built around countering hybrid threats. In the week of 8 June, Deputy …
Two democracies, very different in scale, are grappling with the same problem: how to protect young people from radicalisation through online gaming. After Australia’s worst terrorist attack, the Bondi Beach massacre in December, the federal …
Spyware, once primarily used by intelligence agencies and nation-states, has become a tool of intimate partner abuse, quietly deployed against people – mostly women – who have no idea they are being watched. In an …
The most consequential line in Washington’s new Cyber Strategy isn’t about defence. Released in early March 2026, the document makes clear that the United States intends to use offensive cyber operations as a routine instrument …
The European Union has institutional capacity, regulatory power and operational experience that can support Australian priorities in the Indo-Pacific. Canberra should not miss the chance to work more closely with it. Globalisation, networked infrastructure and …
The key destabilising feature of today’s information environment is no longer simply that democracies are targeted by adversaries’ misinformation and disinformation. Increasingly, the danger is coming from uninhibited partners in the allied ecosystem itself. The …