Planet A Updates to Australia’s emissions reduction ‘safeguard mechanism’ will limit new gas and coal investments while hard-capping total greenhouse gas emissions. The initiative, which comes into effect on 1 July, targets 215 major polluting …
There are about 830 million Indians connected to the internet today. There will be almost 1.3 billion Indians connected to the internet by 2025, making India one of the most connected nations in the world …
Estonia’s prime minister, Kaja Kallas, spoke at ASPI’s Sydney Dialogue about how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has highlighted the importance of securing democracies against malicious cyber actors. An edited transcript of her speech follows. Two …
Australia’s critical minerals are becoming increasingly important as the world looks to these resources to build the technology needed to reach net-zero emissions. Critical minerals and rare-earth elements are the building blocks of the modern …
As Australia becomes the latest country to ban the Chinese-owned content platform TikTok from government devices, it would be a mistake to limit the public policy debate to traditional state-on-state espionage or major power rivalry. Such platforms …
After a very long wait—and with the defence strategic review to be released this month—the Australian government has named Lockheed Martin as the preferred tenderer for one of its most important space projects. JP9102 will …
In the following edited transcript from proceedings at ASPI’s Sydney Dialogue, Michael Pezzullo, secretary of the Department of Home Affairs, interviews Eric Schmidt, chair of the Special Competitive Studies Project, co-founder of Schmidt Futures and …
Samoa’s prime minister, Fiame Naomi Mata‘afa, gave the opening keynote address on Day 2 of ASPI’s Sydney Dialogue. An edited version of her speech follows. Small island developing states are facing a range of challenges …
In the final session on Day 1 of ASPI’s Sydney Dialogue, Mike Horowitz from the US Department of Defense led a panel discussion on global technology trends. In these introductory remarks, I will lay out …
All our countries have long benefited from open economies. We trade freely, exchange ideas and innovate across borders. But as we’re all aware, the geopolitical climate is rapidly changing. Some countries increasingly use geoeconomics as …
Australia’s deputy prime minister and defence minister, Richard Marles, opened ASPI’s Sydney Dialogue with a warning that Australia must establish a much stronger technological base. An edited version of his speech follows. Can I start …
Late last year, Morris Chang, the legendary founder of Taiwan’s (and the world’s) leading semiconductor producer, proclaimed: ‘Globalisation is almost dead.’ In a world where supply chains have been disrupted by Covid-19 and the deepening …
Unless Australia can develop its skilled workforce, it will struggle to acquire the advanced defence capabilities outlined in the AUKUS agreement. The limited pool of skilled workers is a problem affecting many industries and technology …
ASPI’s Sydney Dialogue is already on its way to becoming the world’s premier policy summit on critical, emerging, cyber and space technologies. When we wanted to build this dialogue four years ago, not all stakeholders …
By all accounts, Chinese President Xi Jinping has had a successful few weeks. Hot on the heels of the Chinese-brokered restoration of diplomatic ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, he used his recent visit to …
Many people rejected the very idea of building a modern defence technology company when I founded Anduril Industries in 2017. They thought the international rivalries and confrontations of the past had faded with the end …
From 2014 through to today, a commendable number of Strategist articles have focused on the women, peace and security agenda. One of those articles was mine. In 2020, I asked if New Zealand really could …
At the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting on 3 March in New Delhi, the four principals reaffirmed their countries’ ‘steadfast commitment to supporting a free and open Indo-Pacific, which is inclusive and resilient’. Held a day …
Former defence minister Robert Hill says it’s clear now that, in the lead-up to the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein had complied with UN Security Council orders to dispose of his chemical and …
Sea state China and Cambodia have held military naval drills for the first time in Cambodian waters. During the two-hour exercise, the Chinese navy’s Jinggang Shan amphibious landing warship and two patrol boats from the …