Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke is right to reject the proposed removal of religious motivation from Australia’s terrorism laws. The proposal by the nation’s special envoy to combat Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, rests on a fundamental …
Articles by: "John Coyne"
The proposed US Marine Corps war reserve stockpile at Bandiana should trigger a sharper Australian debate than the one now unfolding. Can Australia and its allies can turn those stocks into operational effect at the …
Australia has spent decades optimising infrastructure for efficiency. Strategic competition requires infrastructure optimised for endurance. Governments routinely invest billions of dollars in widening motorways, upgrading commuter corridors and improving urban transport networks. Those projects often …
Democratic governments have spent the past three years building resilience in critical minerals. Australia has announced a Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve. Japan continues to maintain strategic stockpiles through the Japan Organization for Metals and Energy …
Journalism isn’t disappearing; its economic and institutional foundations are. Journalism was never simply about publishing information but rather about the systems surrounding publication: verification, accountability and liability. Those systems reduced errors, tested evidence and imposed …
From 1 July, work undertaken lawfully in Australia by journalists, think tank analysts, academics and others may be characterised as criminal under Chinese law. China’s new Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law claims legal authority …
Australia’s defence debate increasingly discusses what we should build in northern Australia. The more important question is whether what already exists can survive disruption long enough to matter. Over the past decade, governments have invested …
In the year or so since ASPI released its National Food Security Preparedness Green Paper, its argument that Australia should strengthen its food system as a matter of national security has been reinforced with uncomfortable …
Australia’s economic security debate still focuses on the physical elements of supply chains: mines, ports, processing plants, shipping routes and stockpiles. Beijing has moved further. China increasingly treats knowledge about supply chains as a strategic …
Today marks the launch of the Darwin Dialogue 2026 report, From Exposure to Endurance: competitive endurance architecture for high-ESG mineral-specific supply chains. Australia and its partners have spent much of the past decade debating why …
Chinese reactions to Treasurer Jim Chalmers’s decision to order six China-linked investors to divest their holdings in Northern Minerals tells us far more than the decision itself. China’s Global Times publication condemned the move as …
For decades, Australia assumed economic power flowed from geology. Resource wealth delivered export earnings, government revenue and strategic confidence. The emergence of China Mineral Resources Group (CMRG) over the past four years suggests otherwise. In …