Essays & reportage
21 October 2024
Can the “brainy and agile” Penny Wong counter the power of US-centric defence and security agencies?
Books & arts
19 September 2024
The great geopolitical struggle of our time, cold war 2.0, is cyber war and proxy war and tech war, economic face-off and nuclear brinkmanship
Books & arts
11 July 2024
A nation with its own continent looks at the world via geography and culture
National affairs
22 April 2024
As a China-watching think tank winds up after Morrison-era cuts, a respected analyst reviews government funding for security-related research and education
Essays & reportage
8 February 2024
Communist or not, postwar refugees from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe attracted the attention of Australia’s security services
From the archive
27 November 2023
Labor’s changes to the controversial portfolio don’t go anywhere near far enough
Books & arts
9 November 2023
Calder Walton’s lively global survey takes in a century of espionage
National affairs
8 September 2023
Australia’s foreign policy is falling victim to domestic conflicts between conservatism and social democracy
National affairs
4 May 2023
The government’s strategic review has left the commentariat puzzled
Essays & reportage
8 December 2022
Labor’s decision to drop the prosecution of Bernard Collaery leaves key questions unresolved
Books & arts
9 November 2022
Harmony and hostility exist side by side in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network
Books & arts
20 October 2022
Did Beijing set out to mislead the West about its intentions — and did it succeed?
Books & arts
3 October 2022
Two daughters profile a controversial father and an enigmatic mother against the backdrop of the growing bush capital
Essays & reportage
27 September 2022
Why have law enforcement agencies and the media shied away from calling out right-wing terrorism for what it is?
Essays & reportage
7 September 2022
Has the Australian Strategic Policy Institute been pushed off course by the China hawks?
Books & arts
7 October 2021
An unconventional biography reveals a complex cold war–era family
National affairs
4 October 2021
Australia’s retreat to the Anglosphere has implications beyond defence and trade
From the archive
20 August 2021
An independent from South Australia is exerting outsized influence in Canberra
From the archive
17 May 2021
Two leaks, two contrasting sequences of events — how Daniel Ellsberg and Chelsea Manning changed the course of history
From the archive
5 March 2021
More than forty years later, lawyers are using evidence of an ASIO cover-up to clear the names of the Croatian Six
National affairs
20 November 2020
Who is being helped by the continuing pressure on Bernard Collaery and Witness K?
National affairs
12 November 2020
With the federal government appointing a special war crimes prosecutor, it’s time to confront broader questions about armed interventions
National affairs
6 November 2020
Is Labor right to be worried by Scott Morrison’s choice to head the Office of National Intelligence?
Books & arts
7 August 2020
Books | Inept and corrupt, Australia’s earliest security organisations were ill-equipped for emerging threats
Books & arts
21 July 2020
Books | Journalist Annika Smethurst underscores the personal toll of declining press freedom in Australia
National affairs
13 July 2020
A Biden administration won’t help with China and trade, and might even make things worse
National affairs
6 July 2020
The government should focus less on war preparation and more on war prevention
National affairs
2 July 2020
The launch of two new defence reports highlights the government’s preoccupation with military force and the American alliance
Books & arts
24 June 2020
Books | Is Beijing really waging a successful war against the West?
National affairs
9 June 2020
There are security risks in having foreign investment, but bigger risks in not having it