When I joined the defence department in early 2019, a senior military officer cautioned: “You will soon learn that everyone has an opinion about the tank.” Indeed, that realisation dawned quickly. In ...

For PNG, opening the door for its inaugural defence treaty is an indication that it views Australia as its preferred security partner into the future. Australia, for its part, has stepped up its game ...

Melinda Stuart has worked internationally for over two decades, with more than ten years of experience in the technology sector across cloud, communications, and software. With a focus on go-to-market ...

Don McLain Gill is a geopolitical analyst and lecturer at the Department of International Studies, De La Salle University in Manila.

Amra Lee is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University, focusing on better protecting civilians in a changing world order. She is a former Rotary Peace Fellow at Uppsala University (2018–19 ...

Defence analyst Marcus Hellyer talks with the Lowy Institute’s Sam Roggeveen about the unprecedented appearance of Chinese warships off Australia’s east coast. What message was Beijing sending? How ...

It was only a matter of time until the Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) gunmen of Syria’s post-Assad interim government resorted to violence against non-Sunni Muslims. Reports emerged early on 9 March ...