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The Strategist9hOpinion
Australia’s critical minerals strategy must avoid Pinjarra’s mistakes
The Albanese government’s announcement of a $1.2 billion critical minerals strategic stockpile marks an important step ...
The Strategist13hOpinion
Australian critical minerals reserve would put country on the right track
Australia’s future prosperity will not be built on nostalgia for past booms. It’ll be forged in the critical supply chains of ...
The Strategist10hOpinion
For long-term AI ambitions, Australia should think nuclear
Australia’s two major parties are divided over nuclear energy and the future mix of the nation’s power sources. But they are ...
The Strategist15hOpinion
Better defence demands a better veteran affairs strategy
Australia needs to develop a new veteran affairs strategy. Failure to do so will worsen the Australian Defence Force’s ...
The Strategist8h
Australia’s defence budget before and after the 2009 white paper
Thanks to Michael Pezzullo’s Strategist article last month, we now know that Australia’s 2009 defence white paper foresaw our ...
The Strategist1d
Preparedness and resilience in an uncertain world
In the week of Australia’s 3 May election, ASPI released Agenda for Change 2025: preparedness and resilience in an uncertain ...
The Strategist1d
What else we could do with the money: AUKUS Plan Bs from a CSBA exercise
Sceptics of AUKUS Pillar 1, the nuclear-submarine element of the Australian-UK-US defence technology partnership, have called ...
The Strategist1d
Not so risky after all: bilateral consequences of compromised intelligence operations
It’s a staple of screenwriters and novelists, stock news footage and a spectre haunting ambassadors’ dreams: a spy unmasked; ...
The Strategist1dOpinion
Australia’s quiet counterterrorism wins are being missed. That’s a problem
Victorian Supreme Court Justice James Elliot ruled that Abdul Nacer Benbrika—Australia’s most notorious terrorist and the ...
The Strategist1d
The five-domains update
Sea state An Australian contingent participated in Exercise Bersama Shield on 17-22 April, joining with forces from Britain, ...
The Strategist2dOpinion
Australia (still) needs a dedicated and public-facing national security adviser
In the week of Australia’s 3 May election, ASPI released Agenda for Change 2025: preparedness and resilience in an uncertain ...
The Strategist4dOpinion
Rudd and Shearer aren’t enough. Washington needs to see more Australian heavy hitters
We need more than two Australians who are well-known in Washington. We do have two who are remarkably well-known, but they ...