Putting AUKUS in its place: Australia’s submerged Indo-Pacific strategy
The following is the test of the 2024 Vernon Parker Oration by Professor Rory Medcalf AM, Head, National Security College, Australian National University. 15 May,...
Improve understanding of deterrence
Australia needs urgently to improve its understanding of deterrence so that it can build an effective strategy to respond to future provocation and malicious...
Australia should lead on critical minerals
By Kim Beazley*
Australia has the chance to resolve the problems the AUKUS partners and their friends and allies have with critical minerals, particularly with...
The long arc of Australian defence strategy
By Michael Pezzullo*
Kim Beazley was appointed as Minister for Defence on 13 December 1984. He oversaw a revolution in Australian defence, as profoundly important...
Budget 2024: hoping for the best
The Albanese government has unveiled its third budget. ASPI experts across defence, cybersecurity and technology, the Pacific, climate and critical minerals give their first...
Projected defence spending up 11pc
By David Uren*
The Australian federal budget shows defence will receive a significant increase in funding over the next decade under the new National Defence...
Solving problems is the new strategy
By Andrew Carr*
The release of the 2024 National Defence Strategy (NDS) in April revealed a dividing line within Australia’s strategic and defence community. The...
Defending trade routes
By David Uren
A recurrent theme in Australia’s defence strategy has been our reliance on and need to defend Australia’s trade routes in a globalised...
AUKUS: about strategy not jobs
Australia’s government must provide a more thorough and public explanation of why it has committed to the AUKUS plan to buy nuclear powered submarines...
Pacific island recruitment idea
Working more closely with Pacific island partners could help solve Australia’s military recruitment and retention challenges while also building collective regional security and interoperability,...