2024 Naval Shipbuilding and Sustainment Plan
On 20 December the Commonwealth Government released the 2024 Naval Shipbuilding and Sustainment Plan (NSSP). This document outlines the Government’s investment of up to...
Naval competition in the Indian Ocean
The South Asian Voices (SAV) editorial team collaborated with the Strategic Learning team on a wide-ranging SAV Q&A that explores the importance of naval...
Climate change: lessons from Tracy
By Raelene Lockhorst and John Coyne*
On Christmas morning in 1974, Cyclone Tracy unleashed catastrophic destruction on Darwin, forever altering the city and Australia’s approach...
Filling the AUKUS comms gap
By Jacqueline Gibson and Cameron Hendrix*
Gaps in AUKUS communication strategies limit public understanding of its benefits and allow malign actors, such as China and Russia,...
Here come the (tougher) Marines
By Andrew Rolander*
The US Marine Corps is dramatically increasing its relevance to the war fighting capability of the United States. As the world lurches...
Building maritime capacity in polar regions
By Aaron Delano-Johnson and Myles McCarthy*
Sporting the distinctive racing stripe worn by many of the globe’s coast guards, the world’s newest polar-capable research vessel...
China’s new Latin American beachhead
By Selwyn Parker*
China should be extremely grateful to the Peruvian government of Dina Boluarte. Courtesy of her Congress, which rewrote the rules of foreign...
Upgrade of spent-fuel facility in arrears
A project to upgrade government facilities designed to manage the spent fuel from nuclear-powered US Navy warships is more than $2 billion over budget...
Cyclone Tracy and the sinking of HMAS Arrow – 50 years on
It’s 50 years this Christmas since Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin. In this extract from his new book Cyclone Warriors – the Armed Forces and...
Arctic warning from Russian admiral
The Arctic has moved from cooperation and interaction to the opposite, a region of possible future conflict, said Russia’s navy chief Aleksandr Moiseev, the...