The Chinese Communist Party operates a society-wide system of tech-enhanced authoritarian governance, facilitated by a sophisticated online censorship apparatus and internet-linked physical surveillance devices. This report outlines how the party-state communicates on issues related to surveillance, as well as people’s views on state surveillance, data privacy, facial recognition, DNA collection and data-management technologies.

This report aims to provide the Australian defence establishment and military leaders with well-considered options for engaging the US on matters of mutual interest in the Indo-Pacific. The report provides an overview of the US Army’s changing force posture and approach to land warfare, followed by a brief analysis of its evolving role as an...

Critical minerals and rare earths are the building blocks for emerging and future technologies, inseparable from the supply chains of manufacturing and clean energy production. This report makes a number of recommendations for government and the private sector to support the development of viable, competitive alternative markets that offer products through supply chains secure from...

This report provides a comprehensive stocktake of the lessons the Indo-Pacific region should draw from COVID-19 at precisely the time there is a risk of forgetting the pandemic’s significance, not just for health, but also for the resilience of societies, economies, and international rules-based trade and security.

This report examines opportunities for the development of sovereign space capability in the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia. Given that those northern jurisdictions are closer to the equator, there’s a natural focus in the report on the potential opportunities offered by sovereign space launch, particularly in the Northern Territory and Queensland.