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 …
The long-awaited Australia-Vanuatu Nakamal Agreement (Nakamal) gives Canberra something useful, but it doesn’t appear to be the deal Australia was initially seeking. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and ni-Vanuatu Prime minister Jotham Napat signed the …
On 12 June, every Australian quietly lost access to Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5, the most capable AI model on earth. No warning. No negotiation. The model simply went dark. And the cut didn’t come from …
The announcement of an upgrade of the Australia-France Roadmap confirms that both countries are moving forward shoulder-to-shoulder in the global scrum. As Canberra and Paris strengthen their partnership and move past mutual misunderstandings, and as …
There’s a saying about submarine warfare: ‘there are two types of naval vessels – submarines and targets.’ Nuclear-powered submarines, SSNs, are the true apex predator of the oceans in war. The chief of the Royal …




