Australia is one of the largest countries, yet its population/economic activity are concentrated in a narrow band on the ...

In one of its bolder steps, Australia’s new Defence Strategy and Force Structure Review is proposing a radical redefinition of the geographical reach of Australia’s strategic priorities. It rejects ...

Defence minister Stephen Smith, prime minister Julia Gillard and Commander of Defence Forces David Hurley at the launch of the Defence White Paper. AAP/Lukas Coch Australia’s new Defence White Paper ...

To travel in the Asia-Pacific is to reacquaint yourself with geography. Case in point: Australia. For Americans, Australia is Foster's, throwing meat on the barbie (a term I haven't heard once this ...

The traditional foundations of Australia’s strategic policy, and its dominant way of war, have been transformed. This new fact of life was signaled in this month’s 2020 Australian Defense Strategic ...

Australia’s military will rely more on autonomous systems to overcome the disadvantage of having to protecting vast geography, said defense officials who predicted “friction in the system” as the ...

Geoffrey Barker is a defence and foreign-affairs columnist for the Australian Financial Review and a visiting fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at ANU. Of course the Defence Force ...

Schools in Australia have been strongly pushing for a greater focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) subjects beginning in the primary level. On Friday, Sept.18, the country's ...