If you thought 2024 was hard for defence and security, the outlook at the beginning of 2025...
Policy
‘More of the same’ politics is a recipe for political death
If 2024 was the year of global elections, 2025 is the year voters want experimentation in politics...
Abandoning Israel comes with high price in Indo-Pacific
The Middle East is experiencing game-changing developments with consequences that extend well...
The PM plays spectator as the terrorism threat grows
Investigations into the terror attack on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans...
Not alert and not alarmed: our complacency puts us at risk, politically and socially
[Note to SAA readers: This article appeared in The Australian on 03 January 2025. Overnight the...
Job done for China’s ambassador — but 2025 will be much harder
China’s ambassador Xiao Qian has replaced wolf warrior language with silken tofu. According to his...
Varghese review will kill off fair, open policy debate
It seems the Albanese government is happy with, but not proud of, Peter Varghese’s “Independent...
Labor must explain why it’s trashed a historic friendship
In her recent Hawke Oration delivered on Monday night, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said we expect...
Fall of Assad triggers momentous shift in Middle East power plays
For more than a decade Syria has been a patchwork of contesting tribal loyalties overlaid with the...
18 Ways To Leave Your Lover: a big tech view of the Pentagon
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar has put out a compelling diagnosis of Pentagon capability acquisition...
Right Here Right Now: Unleashing Australian know-how to grow military power fast
This is the third report in the IPA-SAA Blueprint for Defence series that provides an action plan...
Australia’s Ghost Fleet—The strange saga of the Arafura-class Offshore Patrol Vessels
Last year the US Navy’s Ghost Fleet visited Australia. This squadron consists of uncrewed surface...
Another Brick in the Wall: Education, not control can help young Australians with social media
The Labor government’s mis- and disinformation bill died in the Senate this week and rightly so....
When free trade ain’t free: Xi Jinping plays pretend with our enthusiastic prime minister
Back in 2017, early into Donald Trump’s first term as US President, China’s Communist Party leader...
PM’s precarious US-China juggling is about to reach its use by date
Anthony Albanese described his dialogue with Xi Jinping in Brazil last Monday as “crucial” and his...