This green paper aims to deepen understanding of food security and inform policymaking in a changing geopolitical and technological context. It outlines 14 policy options including centralising the coordination, and decentralising the delivery, of preparedness activities; establishing accountability; and embedding food security as a national security priority and a key element of Australia’s engagement across...

This report examines the vulnerability of emerging economies across the Indo-Pacific and Latin America in the face of economic cyber espionage and the degree to which major emerging economies in these regions are prepared to respond. Countries in the study have been assessed and given a risk label indicating their vulnerability.

Despite playing a key economic role, intellectual property (IP) industries are not protected or secured to the same degree as government agencies or critical infrastructure. This report examines how various countries have used regulatory, legal, and policy interventions to protect IP-producing entities against cyber-espionage. It encourages policymakers to be more proactive in the defence of...

This report reveals the shift in research leadership over the past two decades towards large economies in the Indo-Pacific, led by China’s exceptional gains. India is also emerging as a key centre of global research innovation and excellence, establishing its position as a science and technology power. That said, the US, the UK and a...

This report assesses Antarctica's importance to Australian security, China’s hybrid Antarctic activity, and the need for Australia to develop a balancing strategy capable of bolstering the Antarctic Treaty and ‘pushing back’ against growing Chinese power in Antarctica.