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A global meteorological warning system has become an excuse for China to embed AI-feeding weather stations on foreign territory, gathering data that would help its armed forces in war. Solomon Islands and countries surrounding India ...

China is positioning itself to become a key provider of the infrastructure underpinning Southeast Asia’s AI ambitions. Chinese companies are embedding AI into telecommunications networks, cloud services and critical infrastructure across the region. Their advantage ...

Australia has spent years discussing the strategic importance of critical minerals. We have identified the resources, developed the strategies and established financing mechanisms to encourage investment. Yet there remains a considerable distance between having antimony ...

Upholding the apolitical nature of Australian intelligence is critical to the agencies’ ability to deliver in the national interest, especially as our strategic circumstances deteriorate. But avoiding politicisation means more than just avoiding partisanship. The ...

The Australian’s reporting on the suffering of Indigenous children in Port Hedland should sicken everyone in this country. Three children murdered by their mother after repeated warnings about their safety. A grandmother pleading for intervention. ...

The next national security crisis may expose a vulnerability that rarely appears in Australia’s strategic assessments: the disappearance of the local businesses that keep communities functioning. A defence facility may survive a cyclone, but what ...

A common misunderstanding is that governments need public support for big national security decisions. If a government waits for public backing, it will act only when the populace demands a response to a crisis – and ...

Australia should use Canada’s new defence procurement model to test whether its forthcoming Defence Delivery Agency (DDA) will have enough commercial freedom and industrial tools to deliver military capability quickly. The DDA will have substantial ...

Every AI system that can use an organisation’s data and systems needs a named human owner, a defined approval boundary and a record of what it did. These must be in place before it acts. ...

As Australia seeks to rebuild much of its aged naval fleet, it should also look to rebuild how it perceives itself in the Indo-Pacific. Australia is and has always been a regional maritime power, even ...

We don’t yet know whether politics motivated the Monday attack that left independent member of parliament Helen Haines critically injured outside her Wangaratta office. But while we wait for investigators to establish the motive, we ...

Delivering Defence’s naval shipbuilding and sustainment requirements in Western Australia will depend on more than new investment and infrastructure. The state’s established resources sector has built a substantial industrial base, with heavy-industry facilities, engineering expe…

Washington needs to work more closely with financial supervisors in Asia and elsewhere to identify front companies processing payments for A7, a Russian-backed sanctions-evasion network. The threat of exclusion from the US financial system encourages ...

National security analysts have been quick to call for greater Australian economic resilience in the form of ramped-up domestic technical development and manufacturing. But this is a long-term path to a weaker economy and therefore ...

Australia’s military programs, particularly AUKUS, and Australia’s green industrialisation agenda are usually treated separately. They shouldn’t be. AUKUS is creating decades of demand for specialised steel and advanced manufacturing. Green industrialisation, meanwhile, is trying…

Australia should better protect its most strategically sensitive university research by adapting principles from its Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) framework, its arrangement for defending vital facilities, supply chains, information technology and communications. Uni…

China is exporting its policing model, and organised crime gets it in the door. Beijing now has policing arrangements across most of Africa, and the same expansion is well underway in Southeast Asia and the ...

AUKUS is not just a submarine acquisition program; it is a long-term strategy for strengthening Australia’s agency in a contested Indo-Pacific, where undersea power matters more than ever. Undersea power is the national capacity to ...

In 1997, I served in Bougainville as part of a military information support team, where rumours and an information vacuum threatened a fragile truce. Nearly three decades later, Australia’s digital information environment presents a strangely ...

Has Australia spent so long arguing about migration that it has stopped considering what population is for? Australia is increasingly settling migration policy around an aggregate national number without an equally explicit strategy for the ...

Welcome to the latest edition of ASPI’s Fault Lines. Every fortnight, ASPI’s Defence Strategy Program monitors the actions and developments shaping the regional order and Australia’s security. This edition covers the period from 2 October to 15 October ...

As China’s power and self-confidence grows, it’s becoming much more active in projecting power by establishing military bases abroad. The latest is at Ban Keun Airport near Vientiane, where China has established a joint support ...

Indonesia’s military has built the organisation needed to protect its interests in outer space, including monitoring its waters. But parliament has yet to operationalise this capability. Established in January 2026, Indonesia’s air force space unit ...

If it was ever safe to assume that wars would be quick and decisive, it is increasingly difficult to do so. In Ukraine, Iran and Gaza, attacking forces have struggled to achieve decisive outcomes, despite ...

ASPI has expanded its globally recognised Critical Technology Tracker to include a new patent-analysis capability, introducing patent-based rankings across more than 20 of the 74 critical technologies tracked. Developed by ASPI’s Cyber, Technology and Security ...