As Defence prepares the 2026 National Defence Strategy, Mungalulu Truscott Airbase should be recognised as a multi-user critical infrastructure asset—a forward node complementing Darwin that enables logistics, personnel dispersal and operational resilience across northern Western …
My daughter recently asked me what makes Australia worth fighting for. I started with the usual answers about freedom and democracy, but she wasn’t convinced. What she understood better were the things she could see …
‘Everybody wants to rule the world’, sang Tears for Fears, a line later reimagined by Lorde that still resonates today. In northern Australia, everybody wants something: Defence wants resilience; Indigenous communities want opportunity; states want …
Northern Australia’s resilience in the face of crises depends not only on military facilities but on a network of civil infrastructure—ports, liquid-fuel facilities, airfields and logistics hubs that keep people, goods, and equipment moving. Whether …
A future where northern Australia is not a distant frontier but a thriving engine of national resilience, sovereign capability and regional prosperity remains out of reach because we continue to underinvest in physical and digital …
