The 2016 US presidential election demonstrated the increasingly complex cyber and information environment in which democracies are operating.

This report gives interested readers greater access to the complex workings of the Defence Budget and promotes informed debate on Defence budget issues.

Australia and other Western countries have to come to terms with their limited role in shaping the outcomes of the battle for hegemony in the Arab Middle East.

This paper offers recommendations for the development of Australia’s national cyber information sharing system.

Australia faces an increasingly crowded and complex geopolitical environment in the South Pacific. While the most important external powers in the region have traditionally been Australia, New Zealand, the US and France, a number of new powers are increasingly active, most notably China, Russia, Indonesia, Japan and India. South Pacific states, particularly Papua New Guinea...