Australia should establish a national centre for breakthrough technologies along the lines of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). An Australian Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

The past year brought a renewed focus on Australia’s deteriorating security situation and maritime capability. Despite the ...

One question that 2025 may begin to answer is whether the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) is ...

Among the most complex foreign policy challenges facing President Donald Trump following his inauguration on 20 January will be relations with China and the US’s position relative to Taiwan. Perhaps ...

Other than the Middle East, the world faces the possibility of two major wars escalating in Europe and East Asia, over ...

Originally published on 6 September 2024. Republication of this report today follows news on 6 January 2025 that the US ...

Deployments of ships and aircraft to challenge China’s illegal claims in the South China Sea are increasing. European ships ...

Australian communities are teetering on the edge of a second methylamphetamine crisis that, if not addressed urgently, will lead to widespread health and safety issues. To deal with this ...

In a year in which political incumbents around the world were either voted out of office or forcibly removed from power, one ...

China’s aircraft industry celebrated Mao Zedong’s birthday in style, unveiling three aircraft developments that will comprise ...

Recent wargames using artificial-intelligence models from OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic revealed a troubling trend: AI models ...