Building industrial resilience

If the Government’s “Future Made in Australia” is to succeed, it must evolve beyond a brand into a disciplined investment framework.

Economic coercion requires a unified response

Economic coercion by both the USA and China weaponises trade so middle powers such as Australia should call out coercion wherever it originates, reinforce the rules and invest in resilience so we can prosper.

Rethinking human security

What if the greatest threats to national security weren’t missiles or cyberattacks, but loneliness, misinformation and eroding trust?

Expelling the ambassador

Australia’s expulsion of Iran’s ambassador underlines the point that democracies must be able to act on intelligence-driven probabilities to defend sovereignty while still upholding the highest burden of proof in the courts.

Australia adrift

If Australia continues to manage our relative decline rather than confront it, we risk drifting into strategic irrelevance – as economically dependent, militarily constrained and diplomatically marginal as Latin American countries like Argentina.

Australia’s gas crunch

Australia’s gas supply is a matter of sovereignty that cuts to the heart of our economic independence, national resilience and capacity to respond in a crisis.

Stepping up resilience

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

Fighting international crime

If the US no longer sees global crime networks as a threat, Australia must. The world’s new transnational crime syndicates don’t just smuggle drugs—they destabilise regions, corrode institutions and erode sovereignty. And they are increasingly doing so in the service of states that seek to undermine the liberal order Australia depends upon.

Unpicking Australian sovereignty

Sovereignty will always be central to Australia’s national security debate. But invoking the word isn’t enough. We need to understand it, define it and defend it not as a relic of strategic nostalgia but as a living, evolving capacity to act in the national interest.

Coming home

Anthony Albanese’s decision to return policy responsibility for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the Australian Federal Police to the Department of Home Affairs comes in response to rapidly intensifying threats to social order.

Manufacturing more resilient supply chains

Australia should define and maintain a minimum manufacturing capacity to enhance its national resilience in an age of continuous, concurrent and cascading crises.

Improving state cooperation on security threats

Cooperation between federal and subnational Australian governments on national security must continue to evolve in the face of the complex terrorism, espionage and foreign interference threats.