A lack of meaningful context makes discussions of Australia’s foreign and national security policy too uninteresting or difficult for many young Australians to understand. This works against the long-term development of a public mandate for …
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Once just a marketplace, the financial system is now a weapon of statecraft. Australia’s financial regulators hold the data that shows where the country is most exposed. That intelligence is a national-security asset but sits …
In today’s national security environment, experience alone is no longer enough. As technology, industry and strategic competition evolve at speed, Australia needs to do more than rely on established voices. It needs to actively amplify …
Strategic surprise rarely occurs because there is no warning. Signals accumulate, intelligence reporting circulates and analysts identify emerging risks. Strategic surprise occurs when institutions cannot quickly integrate those signals to act on them. In a …
So last month’s Bondi terrorist attack has prompted an independent review into Australia’s federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. But, since the same reviewer has already told a former government that the laws under which …