Australia’s strategic risk has increased significantly, and the government needs to increase its defence spending to match it ...

A cyberattack on a Qantas call centre, revealed last week, put cyber risk back in the headlines, as did similar attacks on ...

The ASPI Defence Conference in June highlighted the critical importance of national preparedness and resilience to ...

Australia’s ability to generate breakthrough ideas has never been in doubt. But despite increasing recognition of the need ...

Taiwan urgently needs to overhaul its air defence strategy to prevent the rising threat of low-cost drone saturation attacks from China. This demands three major reforms: expanding air-defence ...

The Quad must formalise through a permanent secretariat and expand to include South Korea and New Zealand to remain relevant to Indo-Pacific security. Now is the time to assess whether the group’s ...

Susan Hutchinson is a civil-military professional with experience in government, military and non-government organisations. Susan is undertaking a PhD at the Australian National University’s Coral ...

How did a small Shenzhen-based manufacturer of telephone switches defy tough domestic and international competition to become a world leader in telecoms technology? And how did it manage to start ...

Amid worsening strategic surprise and security fragility, Australia’s national resilience responses are just as important as its defence capabilities. While the original strategic logic for the ...

On the Indo-Pacific geopolitics gameboard, Indonesia stands as a potentially pivotal piece—a country whose strategic choices could reshape regional dynamics for decades. Yet, as revealed during a ...

When it comes to innovation, Australia has a strategy problem as much as a delivery problem. The first is about purpose. The second is about execution. I recently argued that Australia’s innovation ...

In the four decades before 2010, the United States maintained a policy of engagement with China, notwithstanding such fluctuations as the reaction to the Tiananmen Square massacre. China won over the ...