The 13th Australian Defence Magazine Northern Australia Defence Summit will return as part of NT Defence Week 2026 on 28 April. That timing matters. The 2024 National Defence Strategy is explicit: Australia’s strategy of denial …
Articles by: "John Coyne"
The speed of critical-minerals policy evolution has been unmistakable. In the past year alone, governments across the Indo-Pacific have tightened export controls, expanded sovereign investment vehicles, announced new agreements, and redirected defence industrial policy toward …
Northern Australia is where economic security stops being a slogan and starts being tested. What sounds abstract in Canberra becomes brutally practical in Darwin, Tindal and the Barkly, where distance, infrastructure, workforce and sustainment constraints …
Since the 2023 Defence Strategic Review, the government has spoken often and loudly about the strategic importance of northern Australia. The language has been consistent: a more dangerous region, a need to operate from Australia’s …
China’s ambassador has chosen a public platform to apply pressure on Australia, shape domestic debate and threaten retaliation over a sovereign national-security decision. With this, Beijing has transformed a policy review on Chinese control of …
Governments need to move beyond faith in market self-correction and legacy institutions and instead build disciplined arrangements in small groups of countries to align public policy with private capital. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s …
Editors’ picks for 2025: ‘Australia: a wealthy country in gentle decline, exposing itself to danger’
Australia’s three-decade run of uninterrupted economic growth up to 2020 became a pillar of national identity, and proof of resilience, prudence and global relevance. But that story is now showing cracks.
Australians want answers and reassurance. They want to believe that tragedy could have been prevented if only someone had acted differently. Politics amplifies that instinct, demanding decisive action, new laws and visible accountability. But when …
In the days after Sunday night’s terrorist attack at Bondi Beach, a familiar pattern has emerged. Shock gives way to grief. Grief turns into questions. And questions, inevitably, become accusations. How did this happen? Who …
Washington’s launch of the Genesis Mission has just redrawn the global technological map, and Australia needs to pay attention. The issue is no longer about narrow defence or intelligence capabilities; it’s about who owns the …
As naturally occurs after public violence such as the 14 December Bondi Beach terror attack, we crave clarity. Media outlets search for a single, definitive answer that might impose order on shock and loss. In …
Pax Silica sounds like the future because, in many respects, it is. In an era where artificial intelligence is reorganising the global economy, control over the silicon supply chain—from minerals and energy through to chips, …