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Technology

Looking to the skies: The importance of satellite cybersecurity

11 November 2024
Brief byTom Barrett
US President Joe Biden and leaders from the Pacific Islands region pose for a photograph to commemorate the first-ever US-Pacific Island Country Summit at the White House, September 2022
Foreign policy

US and Australian efforts to bolster people-to-people ties with the Pacific Islands

4 November 2024
Brief byEleanor Shiori Hughes
HMAS Arunta enters the port city of Busan, Republic of Korea, as part of the ship’s North East Asian deployment
Defence

Australia’s shipbuilding ambitions and South Korea’s experience

31 October 2024
Brief byDr Peter K. Lee
US President Joe Biden, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Quadrilateral Summit at the Archmere Academy in Wilmington, Delaware, September 2024.
The Quad

Operationalising the Quad: Maritime security and climate change in the Indo-Pacific

23 October 2024
Brief byKate Clayton
Royal Australian Navy sailor Leading Seaman Aviation Anthony Hunt from HMAS Toowoomba greets crew members from the Republic of Korean ship Gang Gam — Chan during a cross deck exercise as part of the regional presence deployment 2023
Allies and partners

The South Korea-Australia partnership: State of play

23 October 2024
Brief byProfessor Peter Dean
Cover photo: HMAS Warramunga’s embarked MH-60R helicopter ‘Sabertooth’ conducts free-deck landings during AUSINDEX 21.
Allies and partners

Engaging with reality in the Indian Ocean

12 September 2024
Brief byDr Arzan Tarapore
Defence

Financing AUKUS Pillar II: Building a multi-sovereign public-private innovation fund

31 July 2024
Brief bySophie Mayo
Defence Minister Richard Marles
Defence

The Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill 2023: The key to AUKUS?

9 April 2024
Brief byAmy McDonnell
Foreign policy

European Security Cooperation with the Indo-​Pacific

1 April 2024
Brief byDr Gorana Grgic
Allies and partners

Building Japan's counterstrike capability: Technical, temporal and political challenges

25 March 2024
Brief byMasashi Murano
A fiber optic cable is pulled ashore from the cable-laying ship "Pleijel" at the entrance to the port of Sassnitz
Trade and economics

Linking up with business on undersea cables: How Australia, the United States and Japan can better cooperate with the private sector on cables in a more contested Indo-Pacific

18 March 2024
Brief byHayley Channer
A People’s Liberation Army–Navy intelligence collection vessel, AGI-792 Haiwangxing, operating off the Australian north-west shelf during the May 2022 election campaign
Defence

Ambitiously grey: Pursuing an active Australian military approach in the grey-zone

12 March 2024
Brief byThomas Lonergan