On 12 September, Land Forces 2024, Australia’s largest defence conference and industry exposition, opened to the Chief of Army Symposium for the first time. The symposium brought together almost 2000 attendees from across the Service, …
Which country is Singapore’s ‘special and most-trusted partner’, according to Prime Minister Lawrence Wong? For a globally networked city state that excels in ‘multi-alignment’ and spurns formal alliances, the crop of potential candidates is abundant. …
Amid ADF recruiting and retention woes, outreach and support to current and future LGBTQ+ servicemembers falls short. This error is leading the ADF to miss out on strong candidates who may otherwise stay or enter …
The Quad grouping of Australia, India, Japan and the United States is turning 20. And like a young person entering their third decade, the Quad’s time has come to start maturing into its proper potential …
Over the last three decades, the Australian Defence Force (ADF), enjoying an era of peace and strategic stability, shifted from prioritising sovereign fuel resilience to investing heavily in outsourcing. With strategic warning times shrinking and …
As Australia debates the right cut-off age for social media use, let’s not forget there already is a cut off age—13. That’s the age most platforms set in their terms of service in compliance with …
Australia is waging a quiet yet critical battle on a new front—its software supply chains. Attacks on this battleground infiltrate deep within the software development lifecycle, exploiting vulnerabilities in third-party components or open-source software. But …
