Australian Strategic Policy Institute

The new critical minerals prospectus lists resources that are essential to renewable energy developments and other high-tech applications.

Few doubt a ban on TikTok in government is coming. The reality of how it’s enforced is an altogether more complicated matter.

Does defending our planet make defence spending more defensible, especially to Australia’s younger generations?

Through its National Action Plan, Defence is pursuing a long-term agenda to promote women, peace and security.

Australia needs a long-term vision ensuring Indigenous participation in planning cycles for complex projects.

Justin Bassi, chief of staff to foreign minister Marise Payne, is tipped to be the next leader of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

The new Blueprint for Critical Technologies will weigh up economic opportunities of critical technologies and national security risk. 

China seeks to deepen its economic ties with all its current trading partners while increasing its military presence. The Australia-US relationship is being strategically tested.

Terrorism is on our doorstep, and we must be constantly vigilant in our approach to ensure we continue to live with the freedoms that democracy grants us as a right.

Delivery of the government’s elephantine capability program over the next decade will test Australia’s workforce, whatever model or combination of models Defence relies upon. We are all going to have to think creatively about how to generate the required workforce.

The Australian Defence Force wants to roll out military technology in Antarctica. This raises the issue of what is, or is not, legitimate use of technology under the Antarctic Treaty.