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The cost of Defence: ASPI Defence Budget Brief 2025-2026

Building national preparedness: A road map for Australia and what we should learn from Finland

Shifting the needle: Making Australia’s research security ecosystem work smarter

Since 2018, the Australian Government has made serious strides in countering espionage and foreign interference, including introducing policy and legislative reforms aimed at protecting the research and university sector. That was necessary. Foreign states have actively targeted Australia’s research ecosystem—seeking to influence research agendas, extract sensitive information and exploit institutional vulnerabilities. However, the threat landscape […]

North of 26 degrees south and the security of Australia: views from The Strategist, Volume 11

The Northern Australia Strategic Policy Centre’s latest report, North of 26 degrees south and the security of Australia: views from The Strategist, Volume 11, contains articles published in ASPI’s The Strategist over the last six months. Expanding on previous volumes, this edition introduces thematic chapters focused on a range of subjects relevant to northern Australia. […]

China’s military spending rises should prompt regional budget responses

China’s defence budget is rising heftily yet again. The 2025…

British public opinion on foreign policy: President Trump, Ukraine, China, Defence spending and AUKUS

Results snapshot President Trump Britons support an open…

Australia’s defences must be ready in two years. Here’s what to do

Beijing deployed a naval task group to the waters around Australia…

A loss in Europe is a loss in the Indo-Pacific

The United States shocked the world last week with President…

Defence, not more assertive cyber activity, is the right response to Salt Typhoon

The ongoing Salt Typhoon cyberattack, affecting some of the…

When dealing with China, Australia must prioritise security over economics

China’s economic importance cannot be allowed to supersede…

In case we forgot, Typhoon attacks remind us of China’s cyber capability—and intent

Australians need to understand the cyber threat from China. US…

China’s naval deployment should invigorate Australia’s election debate

The Australian government’s underreaction to China’s ongoing…

China is on course for a prolonged recession

The risk of China spiralling into an unprecedentedly prolonged…

With Chinese warships nearby, Australia needs to step up as a maritime power

China now fields the world’s largest navy, and last week’s…

China’s ships near Australia. Challenges in the South China Sea. Get used to it

Australia can take three lessons from Chinese military behaviour…

DeepSeek is in the driver’s seat. That’s a big security problem

Democratic states have a smart-car problem. For those that…

China’s military spending rises should prompt regional budget responses

China’s defence budget is rising heftily yet again. The 2025…

British public opinion on foreign policy: President Trump, Ukraine, China, Defence spending and AUKUS

Results snapshot President Trump Britons support an open…

Australia’s defences must be ready in two years. Here’s what to do

Beijing deployed a naval task group to the waters around Australia…

A loss in Europe is a loss in the Indo-Pacific

The United States shocked the world last week with President…

Defence, not more assertive cyber activity, is the right response to Salt Typhoon

The ongoing Salt Typhoon cyberattack, affecting some of the…

When dealing with China, Australia must prioritise security over economics

China’s economic importance cannot be allowed to supersede…

In case we forgot, Typhoon attacks remind us of China’s cyber capability—and intent

Australians need to understand the cyber threat from China. US…

China’s naval deployment should invigorate Australia’s election debate

The Australian government’s underreaction to China’s ongoing…

China is on course for a prolonged recession

The risk of China spiralling into an unprecedentedly prolonged…

With Chinese warships nearby, Australia needs to step up as a maritime power

China now fields the world’s largest navy, and last week’s…

China’s ships near Australia. Challenges in the South China Sea. Get used to it

Australia can take three lessons from Chinese military behaviour…

DeepSeek is in the driver’s seat. That’s a big security problem

Democratic states have a smart-car problem. For those that…

Getting regulation right: approaches to improving Australia’s cybersecurity

What’s the problem? As well as having a global impact,…

De-risking authoritarian AI

A balanced approach to protecting our digital ecosystems What’s…
Michael Dawes/Flickr.Michael Dawes/Flickr.

China’s cyber interference narrows in on Australian politics and policy

Anyone watching some of the recent testimony of the technology…
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India is a science-tech leader in the making

Critical and emerging technologies are reshaping the future.…
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Image: Anthony Albanese via Twitter.https://twitter.com/AlboMP/status/1591688984505487361

‘With a little help from my friends’: Capitalising on opportunity at AUSMIN 2022

The annual Australia-US Ministerial Consultations have been…

Quad’s ransomware commitment could help shore up regional software supply chains 

The Indo-Pacific’s importance to the security of Australia…

Frontier influencers: the new face of China’s propaganda

Executive summary This report explores how the Chinese party-state’s…

Australia’s semiconductor national moonshot

Foreword Australia has recently been forced to cross a Rubicon.…

Former US Cyber Command and NSA chief makes the case for a cyber competition strategy

Cyber threats to national security and prosperity are today…

Artificial intelligence isn’t that intelligent

Late last month, Australia’s leading scientists, researchers…

Countering the Hydra: A proposal for an Indo-Pacific hybrid threat centre

What’s the problem? Enabled by digital technologies and…

Getting regulation right: approaches to improving Australia’s cybersecurity

What’s the problem? As well as having a global impact,…

De-risking authoritarian AI

A balanced approach to protecting our digital ecosystems What’s…
Michael Dawes/Flickr.Michael Dawes/Flickr.

China’s cyber interference narrows in on Australian politics and policy

Anyone watching some of the recent testimony of the technology…
lens-g04537cd4b_1920

India is a science-tech leader in the making

Critical and emerging technologies are reshaping the future.…
Illustration of a hacker in a hoodie digitally fishing for information_bannerPixelwise Creative Media, Canberra.
Image: Anthony Albanese via Twitter.https://twitter.com/AlboMP/status/1591688984505487361

‘With a little help from my friends’: Capitalising on opportunity at AUSMIN 2022

The annual Australia-US Ministerial Consultations have been…

Quad’s ransomware commitment could help shore up regional software supply chains 

The Indo-Pacific’s importance to the security of Australia…

Frontier influencers: the new face of China’s propaganda

Executive summary This report explores how the Chinese party-state’s…

Australia’s semiconductor national moonshot

Foreword Australia has recently been forced to cross a Rubicon.…

Former US Cyber Command and NSA chief makes the case for a cyber competition strategy

Cyber threats to national security and prosperity are today…

Artificial intelligence isn’t that intelligent

Late last month, Australia’s leading scientists, researchers…

Countering the Hydra: A proposal for an Indo-Pacific hybrid threat centre

What’s the problem? Enabled by digital technologies and…
Cover image: Defence Science and Technology wind tunnel, Melbourne, Victoria, Defence image library, online.https://images.defence.gov.au/assets/Home/Search?Query=20230602dstgADCO6056_0071.jpg&Type=Filename

AUKUS Pillar 2 critical pathways: A road map to enabling international collaboration

The AUKUS trilateral partnership presents Australia with an…
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Why auld acquaintance should ne’er be forgot

Australia and the United Kingdom have a lot of shared history…

Tech industry is the new defence industrial base

Developments in nascent technology areas such as quantum computing,…

Patience, please. AUKUS Pillar 2 is indeed making progress

AUKUS Pillar 2 has a PR problem—and no, not just among sceptical…

Australia’s next step in integrated air and missile defence

Australia is joining the US and Japan in developing systems…

How to bring the whole-of-nation with you

The Australian government is embracing a whole-of-nation approach…
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The mental health epidemic threatening Australia’s security

As it prepares Australia to defend itself in a contested region,…

Fireside chat with Pat Conroy and Bec Shrimpton

On 6 December 2023, Bec Shrimpton, ASPI's Director of Defence…
Cover image: Defence Science and Technology wind tunnel, Melbourne, Victoria, Defence image library, online.https://images.defence.gov.au/assets/Home/Search?Query=20230602dstgADCO6056_0071.jpg&Type=Filename

AUKUS Pillar 2 critical pathways: A road map to enabling international collaboration

The AUKUS trilateral partnership presents Australia with an…
AUKUS as an Avenue for Tech Diplomacy_bannerASPI 2024
AUKUS as an Avenue for Tech Diplomacy 1ASPI 2024
Stop the World, an ASPI Podcast - bannerASPI 2024

Why auld acquaintance should ne’er be forgot

Australia and the United Kingdom have a lot of shared history…

Tech industry is the new defence industrial base

Developments in nascent technology areas such as quantum computing,…

Patience, please. AUKUS Pillar 2 is indeed making progress

AUKUS Pillar 2 has a PR problem—and no, not just among sceptical…

Australia’s next step in integrated air and missile defence

Australia is joining the US and Japan in developing systems…

How to bring the whole-of-nation with you

The Australian government is embracing a whole-of-nation approach…
ASPI-DC_AUKUS_pillar2_RT - bannerASPI 2024

The mental health epidemic threatening Australia’s security

As it prepares Australia to defend itself in a contested region,…

Fireside chat with Pat Conroy and Bec Shrimpton

On 6 December 2023, Bec Shrimpton, ASPI's Director of Defence…

In-conversation with General David H. Berger, Commandant of the United States Marine Corps

https://youtu.be/7aCC4Vl6-Jw Recently, ASPI was joined…
Cover image: Antarctica polar landscape, iStockphoto/Mlenny.https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/antarctica-polar-landscape-gm157286496-4385034

Meeting Antarctica’s diplomatic challenges: Joint approaches for Australia and the United States

This report describes current security and environmental policy…

Darwin US fuel storage facility

Fifteen kilometres from Darwin CBD, there's a plot of mud and…
US Navy and Royal Australian Navy personnel await the arrival of Virginia Class Submarine, USS Hawaii (SSN-776), at Fleet Base West in Western Australia. Photo: Deparment of Defencehttps://images.defence.gov.au/assets/Home/Search?Query=20141110ran8107930_003.jpg&Type=Filename

What is AUKUS and what is it not?

What IS the new AUKUS partnership between the US, the UK and…
Visualisation of a radio signal coming from a mobile phone in a data filled scene, iStockphoto, peterhowell.https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/phone-signal-in-a-data-matrix-city-gm967078012-263819956

Collaborative and agile. Intelligence community collaboration insights from the United Kingdom and the United States

The central aim of this report is to generate insights from…

ASPI appoints inaugural director of Washington DC office

ASPI is delighted to announce the appointment of Mr. Mark Watson…

ASPI to open an office in Washington DC

Today the Minister for Defence, the Hon Peter Dutton, MP announced that…
Cover image: US President George W Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard talk as they tour Sydney Harbour, 5 September 2007, aboard the MV AQA. Source: White House photo by Eric Draper, online.https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/09/images/20070905_d-0471-2-515h.html

ANZUS at 70: The past, present and future of the alliance

The ANZUS Treaty was signed on 1 September 1951 in San Francisco.…

US and Australia must deepen defence cooperation on climate security

Robert Glasser and Erin Sikorsky write on recent climate-driven…
Image courtesy: IISH/Stefan R. Landsberger/Private collectionhttps://chineseposters.net/

To deter the PRC …

This Strategic Insights report is the first in a series of essays,…
The commander of ESG7 delivers remarks during the closing ceremony of the 8th US and Australian exercise Talisman Sabre 2019, US Indo-Pacific Command, Flickr, 27 July 2019https://www.flickr.com/photos/us-pacific-command/48406734881/in/photolist-2gKxaPg-tbqjVV-2hXbeos-2gfLFKT-2gAbJ97-2jd48A3-2gGGPcs-BYGgw7-2gJisrD-2gmuumv-2h1Dvbv-2hYWxeK-2gGHygp-2hY2XQ5-2gv4CJD-2gQJ9Nm-2g4sPUm-2ehWnpW-2es4a2H-2hXbeYk-2fTyZKW-wmRGxF-sULWZA-2drzveR-24TB9UT-2fr4qbf-W7JPQm-XuKZAU-26yTqvg-DkBUCa-2fmCTYy-Y53iwx-2g24hXK-XuKZRy-L1w3gu-2dyKBxg-2h3MjXm-2joxiYa-f74AfW-2h6WmtG-2gacc2C-2g8MFa8-2cpppUm-eLjM6P-2a7qp4q-2h3N1Bx-2h5UAD6-tUUGLP-2hDruBg-2hb3TiZ

Stronger Together: US force posture in Australia’s north—a US perspective on Australia’s strategic geography

Stronger together: US force posture in Australia’s north—a…
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North of 26 degrees south and the security of Australia: Views from The Strategist

North of 26° south and the security of Australia’, a new…

In-conversation with General David H. Berger, Commandant of the United States Marine Corps

https://youtu.be/7aCC4Vl6-Jw Recently, ASPI was joined…
Cover image: Antarctica polar landscape, iStockphoto/Mlenny.https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/antarctica-polar-landscape-gm157286496-4385034

Meeting Antarctica’s diplomatic challenges: Joint approaches for Australia and the United States

This report describes current security and environmental policy…

Darwin US fuel storage facility

Fifteen kilometres from Darwin CBD, there's a plot of mud and…
US Navy and Royal Australian Navy personnel await the arrival of Virginia Class Submarine, USS Hawaii (SSN-776), at Fleet Base West in Western Australia. Photo: Deparment of Defencehttps://images.defence.gov.au/assets/Home/Search?Query=20141110ran8107930_003.jpg&Type=Filename

What is AUKUS and what is it not?

What IS the new AUKUS partnership between the US, the UK and…
Visualisation of a radio signal coming from a mobile phone in a data filled scene, iStockphoto, peterhowell.https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/phone-signal-in-a-data-matrix-city-gm967078012-263819956

Collaborative and agile. Intelligence community collaboration insights from the United Kingdom and the United States

The central aim of this report is to generate insights from…

ASPI appoints inaugural director of Washington DC office

ASPI is delighted to announce the appointment of Mr. Mark Watson…

ASPI to open an office in Washington DC

Today the Minister for Defence, the Hon Peter Dutton, MP announced that…
Cover image: US President George W Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard talk as they tour Sydney Harbour, 5 September 2007, aboard the MV AQA. Source: White House photo by Eric Draper, online.https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/09/images/20070905_d-0471-2-515h.html

ANZUS at 70: The past, present and future of the alliance

The ANZUS Treaty was signed on 1 September 1951 in San Francisco.…

US and Australia must deepen defence cooperation on climate security

Robert Glasser and Erin Sikorsky write on recent climate-driven…
Image courtesy: IISH/Stefan R. Landsberger/Private collectionhttps://chineseposters.net/

To deter the PRC …

This Strategic Insights report is the first in a series of essays,…
The commander of ESG7 delivers remarks during the closing ceremony of the 8th US and Australian exercise Talisman Sabre 2019, US Indo-Pacific Command, Flickr, 27 July 2019https://www.flickr.com/photos/us-pacific-command/48406734881/in/photolist-2gKxaPg-tbqjVV-2hXbeos-2gfLFKT-2gAbJ97-2jd48A3-2gGGPcs-BYGgw7-2gJisrD-2gmuumv-2h1Dvbv-2hYWxeK-2gGHygp-2hY2XQ5-2gv4CJD-2gQJ9Nm-2g4sPUm-2ehWnpW-2es4a2H-2hXbeYk-2fTyZKW-wmRGxF-sULWZA-2drzveR-24TB9UT-2fr4qbf-W7JPQm-XuKZAU-26yTqvg-DkBUCa-2fmCTYy-Y53iwx-2g24hXK-XuKZRy-L1w3gu-2dyKBxg-2h3MjXm-2joxiYa-f74AfW-2h6WmtG-2gacc2C-2g8MFa8-2cpppUm-eLjM6P-2a7qp4q-2h3N1Bx-2h5UAD6-tUUGLP-2hDruBg-2hb3TiZ

Stronger Together: US force posture in Australia’s north—a US perspective on Australia’s strategic geography

Stronger together: US force posture in Australia’s north—a…
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North of 26 degrees south and the security of Australia: Views from The Strategist

North of 26° south and the security of Australia’, a new…