No single country—regardless of its wealth or will—has the combination of mineral reserves, scale, and low-cost labour and energy to compete with China’s centrally planned critical-minerals industry. To break China’s grip on critical minerals, Australia, …
Australian Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy and his British counterpart, Luke Pollard, will hold the Australia-United Kingdom Defence Industry Dialogue (AUKDID) when they meet in London next week. This is a timely return for …
The challenge for Australia and Japan, 50 years since the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation was first signed, is the need to translate strategic alignment into durable capability and coordinated action. Japanese Prime Minister …
Possible renewed momentum for the Quad should not distract Canberra from a more reliable option for supporting security in the Indian Ocean: revitalising the Australia–India–France trilateral. After a 3 February meeting, US Secretary of State …
Australia’s food and energy security strategy needs to move beyond stability-based planning and instead address sustained volatility in the Indo-Pacific. Current policy thinking often treats disruption as episodic and recoverable. But the strategic environment shaping …
