Written in the immediate aftermath of the 2025 Bondi terror attack in Australia, this essay surveys the terrain of the national conversation. It provides a clear defence of Islam’s rejection of extremism and an examination of how Islamophobia is rationalised, amplified and weaponised in the age of social media.

This report builds on earlier research and provides an updated national picture of exposure to fringe and radical content and groups among a large sample of online Australians. The report shows that fringe and radical content remains readily available on mainstream social media platforms and that Australian internet users are regularly exposed to violent content.

In the past two decades, drones have transformed from niche military tools into widely available 'commercial off-the-shelf' technologies. The combination of easy accessibility and payload potential, and the limitations of domestic counter-drone systems, presents a growing challenge. This policy brief provides three recommendations to address this vulnerability.

A collection of nine articles provides short analyses of issues that may be considered over the course of the 48th Parliament. Each article gives a high-level perspective of significant public policy issues, covering background, context and legislative history, as well as some of the policy and legislative directions raised in the public debate.

This compendium examines Australia’s counterterrorism trajectory from the immediate post-9/11 period to a more complex contemporary threat environment. Drawing on articles originally published in The Strategist, the collection explores domestic and international terrorism, radicalisation, antisemitism, lone actor violence, youth extremism, and the growing intersection between terrorism, technology and statecraft.