This explainer assesses how the Trump Administration’s approach to United States intelligence is affecting, and will affect in the future, Australia’s national intelligence community and by extension its national interests. It concludes that Australia should enhance the fields in which it has, or can develop, genuine sovereign intelligence capabilities and thinking.

The business model of the Australian national intelligence community (NIC) is being challenged. In 2025, technology is the centre of gravity of national power, not just military might. Informed by stakeholder engagement, this report finds there’s much more that can be done when it comes to the NIC and innovation. The report makes five key...

A wide-ranging collection of analyses and recommendations to assist the next Australian Government in its deliberations and planning. The structure reflects five interrelated aspects: the need to defend Australia; navigating a new world order; reform of security architecture and policies; securing critical infrastructure; and protection and use of natural resources. Each chapter includes prioritised policy...

This report outlines the challenges experienced in writing Australia’s and the UK’s official intelligence histories to date. It identifies why and how such histories are valuable for explaining and building the social licence for the work of intelligence agencies and advancing historical scholarship on an important but previously obscured element of democratic statecraft.

Australian Government decision-makers need time and insight to identify and prioritise threats (and opportunities) and devise effective responses. Strategic warning intelligence enables and empowers them to do so. This report contends that Australia's national intelligence community should develop a discrete, institutional strategic warning intelligence function—an Australian Centre for Strategic Warning.