Last week was an important one for the global space community. The annual International Astronautical Congress (IAC) was held in Washington DC from 21 to 25 October. And this year’s not only the 70th for …
Debate: "General"
President Joko (Jokowi) Widodo’s inclusion of defeated presidential rival and Greater Indonesia Party (Gerindra) leader Prabowo Subianto in his cabinet appears to validate analysis pointing to a more authoritarian turn in Indonesia and the resurgence …
Sea state New designs on show at the 2019 International Maritime Defence Industry Exhibition in Busan last week included a full-scale prototype of LIG Nex1’s Sea Sword II unmanned surface vessel and a model of …
The relationship between women’s participation in the Australian Defence Force and the concept of women, peace and security in the context of ADF operations isn’t yet clearly articulated in capability terms. This discredits it in …
China and Russia have not only expanded their military cooperation but are also undertaking more extensive technological cooperation, including in 5G, artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology, new media and the digital economy. In our new report, …
Three years ago, I created a minor diplomatic furore when I opined, during a live interview broadcast on the ABC’s Radio National Breakfast, that the time was fast approaching when Australia might be required to …
The New York Times reported on 16 October that the People’s Republic of China had leased the island of Tulagi from Solomon Islands. A secret deal was apparently struck in September, no doubt around the …
The re-emergence of multipolarity in international affairs has reinvigorated our focus on great-power competition. The world of global relations is a complex adaptive system in which unpredictable interactions produce new challenges that we struggle to …
The prime minister makes a good, glib debating point: nobody is above the law, including journalists. The problem Scott Morrison glides by is a Canberra mindset and a pile of new laws that squeeze our …
Australia is not alone in declining to bring home from Syria our citizens who fought with Islamic State and their families. The French government is just one of numerous Western governments that have taken a …
The world US President Donald Trump has lifted sanctions on Turkey following a promise that it would cease fighting in northern Syria. Vox argues that Trump’s stance on Syria is the clearest articulation of his …
The Australian government loves to hate on big tech. In recent years, successive governments have admonished the industry for its alleged role in hiding the communications of terrorists, its resistance to assisting police, its lacklustre …