China won the first critical minerals contest while Australia, India, Japan and the United States were still debating supply-chain resilience. Beijing’s advantage didn’t stem from superior mineral reserves. Australia alone holds globally significant deposits of …
The problem with legacy technology is not that organisations do not know the risks. It is that no mechanism forces a decision. Ownership is distributed across operators, boards, procurement teams, regulators and ministers until responsibility effectively disappears and unsupported …
For no good reason that anyone can see, much of the infrastructure spending for building Australian nuclear submarines is bypassing public accountability. Of the two main sites for AUKUS Pillar One, the one at Henderson, …
The visit to Australia this week by Kimi Onoda, Japan’s minister responsible for science, technology and economic security, is a reminder that the strength of the Australia–Japan relationship depends on the depth of its economic …
This week’s visit to Australia by Japanese Minister of State for Economic Security Kimi Onoda offers the country an opportunity to ensure its natural abundance of critical minerals can play a key role in Japan’s …
Australian foreign minister Penny Wong didn’t just pledge valuable surveillance drones to the Philippines this week; she pledged technology made in Australia and the United States, not in China. This means a decision was made …
When Indo-Pacific democratic governments unite in publicly criticising China’s military provocations, the European Union should join – just as countries such as Australia and Japan do in response to Russia’s ongoing aggression. When a Chinese …
Perception is now part of strategy in the Indo-Pacific. The United States’ partners must not only contribute more but be seen to be contributing more if they want it to stay invested in regional stability. …
Australia should build more of its AI data centres in the north. The physical infrastructure that powers AI has become a strategic national security issue, not simply a collection of commercial assets but a critical …
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 …
Top AI company OpenAI has just frightened the heck out of everyone. It announced that its top models, while being tested in a digital cage on their cyber skills, had broken out of the cage, …
A debate is raging among close observers of Chinese AI: will it stay open-source, or will it close off? The most likely answer is that there’ll be a bit of both. Chinese AI labs are …
