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Australia and South Korea: leveraging the strategic potential of cooperation in critical technologies

Stepping up military support to humanitarian assistance in the Pacific

Preventing and countering violent extremism in Africa: mining and Australia’s interests

Australia has commercial and strategic interests in helping to prevent and counter violent extremism in Africa. Australian mining companies are engaged across the continent in Mali, Burkina Faso, Kenya and many other countries where there have been high-profile terrorist attacks and kidnappings of foreign nationals, including Australians. Those threats already affect the way Australian mining […]

Using open-source AI, sophisticated cyber ops will proliferate

Open-source AI models are on track to disrupt the cyber security paradigm.

China is buying less from developed countries, but not Australia

Australia’s exports to China have not returned to the peaks before the Chinese authorities started imposing discriminatory bans, but they are higher than five years ago, unlike China’s imports from every other major advanced economy. Although there is no official campaign to curb access of western exporters to Chinese markets, there has been a marked shift […]

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