ASPI at 25 – Inside ASPI and outside it: contesting ideas
Twenty-five years ago, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute began with a deceptively simple proposition: Australian strategic policy would be better...
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ASPI at 25 – shaping Australia’s relationship with its most important neighbour
Few bilateral relationships matter more to Australia than the one with Indonesia, and few have changed as much over the...
ASPI at 25 – a quarter-century of analysis and influence
Twenty-five years ago, the world’s knowledge of al-Qaeda, Vladimir Putin, China’s military ambitions and cyber capabilities, and the advantages of...
The anti-ballistic missile shortage
In six months of on-again, off-again fighting with Iran, the United States has effectively exhausted its supply of heavy air...
Australia’s AI future relies on our scientific capability
This week is National Science Week. When the Minister for Industry, Senator Tim Ayres, launched it at Questacon, he put...
Fault Lines – Putin’s Kurils trip, US’s carrier gap, China’s NZ espionage
Welcome to the latest edition of ASPI’s Fault Lines. Every fortnight, ASPI’s Defence Strategy Program monitors the actions and developments shaping the regional...
Working with Australia, India should focus on South Asia’s digital transformation
India needs to pay greater attention to South Asia’s digital transformation as part of its regional strategy. Digital infrastructure is...
Indonesia’s China exercise was a judgement failure, not an alignment shift
News about an Indonesian frigate exercising with a Chinese warship 130 to 150 km east of Taiwan was always going...
AGI could be here in three years, says DeepMind CEO
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis believes progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) is moving faster than expected and that society...
How AutoSecT Uses AI to Find Vulnerabilities That Actually Matter
We always think we are more vulnerable than our fellow contemporaries! In general sense, this shows lack of confidence, but...
NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme Targeting U.S. Defense Software
Ravie LakshmananApr 24, 2026Espionage / National Security, The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space...
How Do I Make Kubernetes Self‑Service Without Losing Control?
Platform teams are under pressure to move faster, but handing full Kubernetes access to every developer is risky. Self‑service...
When Do We Actually Need a Kubernetes Platform Team?
Many teams start by running Kubernetes with a few enthusiastic engineers and some shared clusters. As those clusters become...
It’s an East-West, North-South Thing: ColorTokens and Netskope Have You Covered from All Directions
If you’re a security architect or CISO, these famous words of Lt. General Lewis “Chesty” Puller may hold visceral...
Is It Time to Take the Leap & Migrate from Heroku to Kubernetes?
Salesforce recently announced that it’s ending sales of new Heroku Enterprise contracts and shifting the service into more of...
