Building complete industrial chains for critical minerals is only one way to escape reliance on concentrated foreign supply. A faster way is to find substitute materials and get several of them ready for use. Substitution …
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Australia should open talks on joining the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) now, before the institution’s lending rules are written without an Indo-Pacific member at the table. The DSRB is a proposed multilateral lender …
Australia needs a government-led national audit to identify where it is most vulnerable to interruption of critical overseas supply. Once the audit is complete, every available policy lever should be used to implement its recommendations …
Australia’s economic security debate still focuses on the physical elements of supply chains: mines, ports, processing plants, shipping routes and stockpiles. Beijing has moved further. China increasingly treats knowledge about supply chains as a strategic …
Australia’s prosperity runs on systems that look permanent but depend on inputs arriving from beyond its shores. While the ships keep coming, that dependence is invisible. When they stop, it becomes the only thing that …