PUBLICATIONS
AI for national security can co-exist with Australia’s current copyright laws
This new SAA report (available in PDF here) goes through the key issues around Australia's national decision making around AI, the business demands of OpenAI and Anthropic and how this all stacks up in the wider international and technological picture around AI,...
Hyper-digitised and hyper-personalised: the world has hard problems for Australia’s intelligence community
SAA has released its new report on the world of intelligence, technology and human decision making. Read it here. The intelligence challenges of the last decade haven’t gone away. But the world has become faster, more digital, more personalised and less predictable –...
Australian defence business outlook 2026: growing budgets, harder markets
SAA has launched its Outlook for Australian defence businesses, covering the domestic environment, the bigger picture global developments, and approaches to the growth markets in Europe and Japan. The report examines the drivers of the growing global defence spend and...
Australian defence business outlook: The world’s spending more, but the money is getting harder to reach
SAA has launched its Outlook for Australian defence businesses, covering the domestic environment, the bigger picture global developments, and approaches to the growth markets in Europe and Japan. The report examines the drivers of the growing global defence spend and...
Defence 2025: Dollars and decisions
This report comes at an unusual moment for Australian security. We’re in the middle of a federal election campaign and it’s at a time of great global upheaval, dominated for now by big new uncertainties flowing rapidly out of the Trump administration in Washington DC....
No Higher Priority – urgent actions on defence for Australia’s next government
This is unbelievable: FINALLY, the book you have all been waiting for 'No Higher Priority'. One title, 3 authors, 6 chapters, 36 recommendations. It's all here in a thriller-like adventure story that can cure the Australian military's debilitating illnesses and give...