Australia’s security risks are sharpest where people and technology meet. This is the space where data flows, disinformation spreads and innovation thrives—and where defences can be breached. Australia’s Cyber Security Strategy recognises that lasting protection …
Economic coercion is rarely as dramatic as missiles or armies, but its consequences can be just as destabilising. The weaponisation of interdependence has become an increasingly potent tool of statecraft as globalisation has bound nations, …
Leading insurance giant Munich Re called for better economic modelling of cyber catastrophe in late July. Australia is only just beginning this journey but in doing so needs a national plan covering preparation for and …
A timely new report on northern Australia by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments does well by identifying the strategic significance of that part of the continent. But it could do better in understanding …
There’s a moment in the movie Oppenheimer when the protagonist realises the true danger isn’t so much the bomb itself; it’s the atmospheric chain reaction it might unleash. That same logic applies to national safety. …




