2 Feb 2026
War games: Thriving on strategic turbulence
Washington is deploying a disruptive statecraft that pushes competitors and allies alike to their limits.
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16 Jan 2026
Foreign investment screening could have saved chipmaker Nexperia: What are the lessons for Australia?
Investment approvals are hard to unwind – preserving sovereign decision-space is essential. -
14 Jan 2026
War ready: The human limits of strategy
During crises, timelines can be compressed to minutes, and logistics undone by the simple biology of human fatigue. -
18 Dec 2025
What a student of security studies thinks of Australia’s national strategy
The country’s security should be a shared democratic project but the conversations too often sideline the young. -
12 Dec 2025
Australia all at sea on submarine cable risks
Aging fleets and a leadership void threaten the country's subsea cable resilience. -
13 Oct 2025
Australia’s role in bringing international criminals to justice
Stepping up efforts to investigate and prosecute perpetrators on Australian soil will build credibility at home and abroad. -
10 Oct 2025
Closing the gaps in Australia’s approach to transnational repression
Diaspora communities say a security-focused response to foreign intimidation misses their basic rights concerns. -
2 Oct 2025
Australia’s AI choice: Standards setter or technology taker?
If Australia adopts artificial intelligence built to foreign specifications, we tacitly accept an invisible leash. -
1 Oct 2025
Australian conflict prevention – from statements to strategy?
Australian tunnel vision on potential China–US conflict may blind us to pressing risks closer to home. -
29 May 2025
From transit hub to drug market: Criminal syndicates transform Pacific threats
Regional leaders have been slow to grasp the infiltration of Pacific security agencies by criminal organisations. -
23 May 2025
Israeli embassy staff killings expose the limits of diplomatic protection
Transnational dangers are amplified by extremist ideologies online. -
23 May 2025
Protecting pollies: How safety fears are reshaping Australian politics
Australia must address the growing security threats to politicians or risk deterring diverse, qualified candidates from public service. -
17 Apr 2025
Smarter uses for our intelligence
Australia's intelligence review puts a premium on ensuring policymakers have the right information to understand the security implications of decisions. -
17 Apr 2025
China’s “spy ship” that wasn’t off the coast of Australia
Caught in a political storm, most claims about the mission of the Tan Suo Yi Hao don’t hold water. -
8 Apr 2025
From SCIFs to Signal: How Signalgate sends a message of institutional disdain
Southeast Asia has seen cases before of when proximity to leadership trumps protocol. -
7 Apr 2025
Five Eyes alert: Trump is skewing intelligence to suit his priorities
Sharing secrets is an effort to influence as much as inform – a point that even close friends must remember. -
1 Apr 2025
Australia’s foreign policy reckoning: Time for a new White Paper
In a world no longer divided neatly into allies and adversaries, the next government must find a strategy to navigate the new world order. -
14 Mar 2025
Russia to boost Myanmar’s imagery intelligence
Has the junta just struck a deal with Moscow to strengthen its monitoring and military capabilities? -
11 Mar 2025
Uncovering China’s spying game in the Philippines
A string of arrests has been a wakeup call for Manila that the threat extends inside the water line. -
19 Feb 2025
Political lessons for Australia from the war in Ukraine
The concept of sovereign resilience must be implemented from the top of our nation’s political leadership. -
7 Feb 2025
Revealing India’s Cold War secrets
Indians worried about interference by “the foreign hand” in their affairs might have over-estimated their adversaries. -
7 Jan 2025
Wanna bet? When a smart wager can trump secret intelligence
Prediction markets can make a valuable contribution to policymaking. -
21 Nov 2024
Cat-astrophe! What happens when dirty-minded North Koreans meet Iranian nuclear purrfidy
I spy an invisible cat. Two, in fact. -
4 Sep 2024
New Zealand's intelligence service warns of growing foreign interference risks
A new security assessment aims to widen the concept of strategic competition beyond the United States and China. -
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31 Jul 2024
Australia’s big tech defence cloud: Too big to fail?
Trusting the country’s digital defence capabilities to one company is a potential threat to national security. -
27 Jun 2024
Julian Assange: Some consular cases are more equal than others
It’s hard to think of a case that has consumed more official hours and dollars. -
27 Jun 2024
Assange’s guilty plea “crucial” for many in US intelligence community: James Clapper, former DNI
Justice has been served and an irritant in US relations with Australia resolved. -
7 May 2024
Quantum of silence
Why the secrecy around securing Australia’s quantum research is scary. -
20 Mar 2024
Open sources and the future of spying
Countries spy to overcome an information deficit. But we now live in a world of information super-abundance. -
7 Mar 2024
Spy novels and unicorn hunting
Seeking perfection among the dead ends, red herrings and lost causes, a lover of espionage lists the must-haves. -
1 Mar 2024
ASIO versus the A-team
Mike Burgess kicked off a guessing game with his speech this week – which might have obscured his true message. -
19 Dec 2023
Decoding good intelligence
Transparency – in the sense of a good public understanding of the role and value of intelligence – is essential to support. -
14 Dec 2023
Australia needs an open-source intelligence agency
Done right, this reform could also disrupt the culture of excessive secrecy. -
11 Dec 2023
Espionage top ten
From George Smiley to Jackson Lamb, the best spy fiction relies not on heroes but masters of the plot. -
29 Mar 2023
Contract cheating: How academic dishonesty could endanger national security
Essay-writing mills are more than just a blight on academic integrity, they open a door to the dark world of blackmail. -
22 Jul 2021
Bringing the grey zone into focus
Australia must be ready for China’s next move in the volatile game of statecraft brinkmanship. -
30 Aug 2019
Suspicion creeps into the Five Eyes
The anglophone intelligence group has had its squabbles of late, but it won’t be undone. -
27 Jul 2017
Time for Five Eyes to coordinate on Chinese tech investment
A common assessment system for the Five Eyes allies would assist in safeguarding interlinked telecommunications and high-tech sectors. -
19 Jul 2017
Separating out important intelligence reforms from Home Affairs
The 2017 Intelligence Review was necessary and its recommendations are pertinent and strong. -
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