The tourism industry worldwide has been a favourite terrorist target and it may be hit again. This paper considers the impact of terrorism on tourism and suggests measures to strengthen the resilience of this sector. Now is the time for the Australian tourism industry to re-examine their security training, put security plans in place if...

This Policy Analysis examines the challenges confronting the forthcoming Defence White Paper. Rod Lyon argues that the White Paper needs to define the relationship between three core variables: a complex strategic environment, a set of decisions about Australia’s role in the world, and the constraints that limit that role.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is the first multinational security body outside the US orbit to emerge since the Cold War's end. This Policy Analysis, authored by John Lee, outlines the SCO's origins and development, analyses the group's internal dynamics and offers an Australian policy response.

Intelligence is now at the forefront of our national security effort. Recent reforms have delivered more money and more people to the intelligence community but limited structural changes. This Policy Analysis, by Carl Ungerer, offers an assessment of the intelligence reform agenda and proposes some further steps towards restructuring the intelligence community and its activities...

Media reports of the endorsement of the launch of a planning process to replace Australia's Collins class submarine fleet sometime in the 2020s have cited a cost of up to $25 billion. This paper explains why the cost might be so high, and examines some of the compromises that would be necessary to reduce the...