Australia champions Indigenous rights internationally, yet the militarisation of northern Australia raises urgent questions ...

The National Press Club is under fire for hosting Israel’s ambassador after cancelling other speakers and remaining largely silent on the killing of journalists in Gaza. We recognise the First Peoples ...

Australia’s iron and steel sector shows why climate policy, industrial strategy and national security now need to be governed ...

China’s push for technological self-reliance does not signal a retreat from globalisation, but a strategy to remain globally ...

John Menadue has had a senior professional career in the media, public service and airlines. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1985 for public service. In 1997, he received the ...

In the final part of a six-part series on AUKUS infrastructure, Peter Briggs argues that Pillar 1 cannot deliver on schedule or budget, and that Australia should pause its HEU pathway and assess ...

Australia cannot control wars and political upheavals overseas, but it can choose whether those conflicts are allowed to fuel division, suspicion and hatred at home. Australia cannot stop wars ...

With more than a third of the US fast-attack submarine fleet sidelined by maintenance delays, the assumptions behind AUKUS ...

Victorian Labor’s crisis is not just about leadership, but a decade of governing as though its western and north-western ...

Films about nuclear war have often been dismissed by officials as inaccurate, alarmist or merely fictional, but their real ...

On re-election in May 2025, Anthony Albanese pledged to run a “disciplined and orderly” government – hardly ‘the light on the ...

The danger of nuclear war does not begin and end with Donald Trump, but with a failing system of nation states, militarised ...