Australia needs a decisive plan that involves mandating a minimum share of defence contracts for Australian small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Too many Australian SMEs face prohibitive barriers when dealing with Defence. Complex tendering rules, …
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David Baverez is right: the world has left the comfortable ‘peace economy’ of 1989–2022 and has entered a ‘war economy’ defined by the supremacy of geopolitics over globalisation. In this economy, strategic resilience, not just …
In a fundamentally shifted strategic environment marked by heightened geopolitical competition and the real prospect of high-intensity conflict, Defence is no longer solely the responsibility of the Australian Defence Force. Australia must embrace a whole-of-nation …
The 2025 Helsinki Geoeconomics Week, held from 11 to 15 August, confirmed a sobering reality: economic power is now inextricably linked to national security and strategic competition. The shifting tectonic plates of geopolitics are grinding …
One way to tell whether a country is getting serious about defence is the size of its arms exhibitions. The one held in Taipei from 18 to 20 September was Taiwan’s biggest yet, reflecting the …