Northern Territory growth has stabilised, but its foundations remain weak, and that should concern anyone serious about Australia’s defence posture. The Darwin Major Business Group’s latest Over the Horizon 2026 report shows a territory economy …
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Strategic geography creates opportunity. It does not create industry. Northern Australia now faces a simple test: can the Northern Territory turn its position at the edge of the Indo-Pacific into real industrial capability? The Northern …
Australia can deploy forces to northern Australia quickly. But sustaining them at scale still depends on a handful of freight corridors, limited fuel depth and commercial logistics networks that Defence hasn’t clearly incorporated into an …
In World War II, the United States built a western Pacific airfield here, another there, and more elsewhere, each intended to bring more Japanese targets into range. Now the abundance of old bases is becoming …
The 13th Australian Defence Magazine Northern Australia Defence Summit will return as part of NT Defence Week 2026 on 28 April. That timing matters. The 2024 National Defence Strategy is explicit: Australia’s strategy of denial …