As Australia identifies national resilience and civil preparedness as key to national defence, it should learn from Norway, which has been living those concepts for decades. For Norway, preparedness extends well beyond its armed forces. …
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Australia isn’t prepared for conflict unless it can build and defend the will to fight. The national civil preparedness and resilience inquiry, adopted in July, is an opportunity to begin that conversation. The inquiry’s terms …
In his fireside with former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon at the 2026 ASPI Defence Conference, Senator James Paterson took the view that Australia’s political and military leaders had arrived at a largely correct diagnosis of …
Australia’s defence debate increasingly discusses what we should build in northern Australia. The more important question is whether what already exists can survive disruption long enough to matter. Over the past decade, governments have invested …
Despite our famed resilience against natural disasters, Australia still struggles to take catastrophic risk seriously. In this volatile security environment, the divide between short-term comfort and meaningful long-term preparedness remains worryingly wide. We must confront …