This comprehensive publication outlines how Australia’s foreign policy focuses on protecting national interests through strong regional partnerships, inclusive values and international rules—vital in a world marked by uncertainty, strategic shifts and disruption.

Fresh violence between India and Pakistan highlights long-standing tensions over Kashmir—fuelled by unresolved historical disputes, shifting control, and ongoing regional instability. In the 1947 partition, Kashmir’s ruler chose to join India without a public vote.

The robot is believed to be a general-purpose humanoid we've previously seen breaking out dance moves. But, the video that has emerged on social media appears to show a killer robot going rogue.

More than 200 RAAF personnel were involved. In the chaos of Saigon’s collapse, Australian crews risked everything—facing gunfire, sabotage, and tragedy—to evacuate orphans, nurses, nuns, vehicles, refugees, and staff in a race against time.

The origins of pilots burning pianos isn’t entirely clear. Mostly undisputed, however, is that the tradition traces to early Royal Air Force pilots as a way of honouring aircrew who didn’t return from missions.

Health and defence have been integrated into defence strategies in Canada, Britain, the US and New Zealand. Australia needs to do the same. Ignoring this link weakens preparedness in an increasingly unpredictable global landscape.

Australia’s largest biennial military exercise will extend beyond Australian shores this year, with Papua New Guinea hosting key elements of the multinational training activity, led by the Australian Defence Force and the United States Military.

Australia’s long-standing neglect of transport infrastructure poses real risks—without a national logistics plan, critical operations could stall before they begin. Townsville bases face major supply challenges so transport, logistics and defence integration urgently needed.

Resilience means having the ability to cope with, and rebound from, life’s challenges and still achieve our goals. Our capacity to cope with stressors can determine whether we thrive, or just survive.

Training systems can creep from the old military adage of ‘train like you fight’ and lean towards synthetic options. Taiwan with its increased threats, is focussing on force-on-force and on-site and real-time manner training.