In 2023, the Australian government adopted a “strategy of denial” to guide defence planning, defined as an “defensive approach designed to stop an adversary from succeeding in its goal to coerce ...

A year on from the shock of US President Donald Trump’s April 2025 announcement of unilateral tariff increases, US trading partners are openly shrugging off the administration’s insults and demands.

If there is one thing Canberra has learned from the Strait of Hormuz crisis, it is how vulnerable Australia remains and how dependent it is on the world’s maritime chokepoints. Closer to home, ...

Throughout the war, Ukraine has relied on technology to offset Russia’s greater numbers in personnel and materiel. Aerial drones became the backbone of that effort, helping blunt assaults, guide ...

The Chagos archipelago dispute carries wider regional ramifications than the future of the UK–US military base on Diego Garcia. Mauritius has won the UK’s support for a deal over sovereignty of the ...

That the world is becoming more contested and dangerous has become a familiar refrain. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal noted that even small countries like New Zealand are responding with ...

The BRICS grouping is nowhere to be found while the Iran conflict shows few signs of abating. Although Iran joined BRICS in 2024 and rising powers founded BRICS as part of an effort to push back ...

Beijing appears to be returning to a familiar Taiwan playbook: selective engagement with political forces on the island. The opposition Kuomintang (KMT) chairperson Cheng Li-wun’s current visit to ...

On 25 March, India’s cabinet approved the country’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the period 2031 to 2035, with the objective of reducing emissions intensity by 47% from 2005 levels and ...

What they say about desperate times and desperate measures. With oil and gas disruptions in the Middle East, the Philippines is scrambling for options, last week declaring a state of energy emergency.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly being integrated into international asylum procedures, with early trials promising faster processing, reduced backlogs and more uniform outputs. These ...

After one of the largest police operations in modern Australian history, fugitive Dezi Freeman, wanted for the killing of two police officers, was tracked down and shot dead by police after a ...