Australia’s next National Defence Strategy (NDS) risks overlooking a crucial vulnerability that’s hiding in plain sight: our people, and particularly women. The 2024 strategy identified improving workforce growth and retention as one of six immediate …
Everything Australia has achieved—prosperity, stability and strategic freedom—has been underwritten by a great power that shared our values. First it was Britain, then the United States. But with the second Trump administration, that arrangement is …
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, …
In a world reshaped by geopolitical rivalry, economic volatility and an accelerating climate crisis, Europe and the Indo-Pacific have emerged with a new-found connection. We have discovered that rather than divide us, these global challenges have …
Australia lacks secure, onshore computing power capable of training defence algorithms, running classified simulations or supporting the advanced capability agenda under the AUKUS partnership. Addressing this shortfall requires the government and industry to move decisively …
ASPI’s Critical Technology Tracker now covers global research efforts into 74 technologies, giving policymakers, industry and partners the clearest, most current picture of the tech race for strategic advantage. This expanded scope adds 10 technologies …
A tanker sprinting against the clock to beat a cyclone shouldn’t be a national-security storyline—but last week it became one. As Tropical Cyclone Fina tracked toward the Top End, port authorities expedited the arrival of …
Almost six years since Covid-19 shocked the world, the risk is that pandemic readiness slips precisely as the conditions for the next outbreak intensify. At the end of 2019, the world was not dealing with …
Global decarbonisation goals, the digital revolution and economic growth are driving an unprecedented rise in demand for critical minerals. At the same time, Southeast Asian nations are positioning themselves for varied roles in critical minerals …
Germany needs to rethink its balance of hard and soft power if it is to reinforce its global role as the conditions for projecting soft power rapidly deteriorate. Since reunification in 1990, Berlin has cultivated …
Governments across the Indo-Pacific are facing a critical question: who can be trusted to build and manage our most sensitive systems? Vendor choices, for everything from cloud infrastructure to identity platforms, are no longer just …
Australia’s escalating geostrategic threats demand more than military might. They require a resilient, united and proactive civil defence framework. The Defence Strategic Review says, ‘Defence must be the force of last resort for domestic aid …
