In responding to any major crisis – from natural disasters to terrorist attacks and beyond – reliable and secure communication is essential.

Australians don’t tend to vote on foreign policy in federal elections. This makes perfect sense: there is, for the most part, a tradition of bipartisanship…

As last month’s attacks in Indonesia remind us, ISIS has proven to be a resilient threat, with far-reaching influence that hasn’t disappeared with the collapse…

A single Defence Department was brought together in the 1970s. Later, Foreign and Affairs and Trade were merged, never to be separated again. Now Australia…

Victoria will establish a new cross-disciplinary office to track people at risk of carrying out terrorist attacks and intervene early.

Frustrated that state justice and law enforcement are not adequately dealing with the threat of would-be terrorists, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has pushed the issue…

'Hindsight will benefit us all' the New South Wales Police acknowledged this week, bruised as it was from what it called 'unfair' criticism resulting from…

The effects of the bomb will last for years, whether in concrete reality or in people’s awareness and memories. Regardless of your plans for government,…

Airport security has been weakened by Australian Border Force officers going on strike, Fair Work has ruled. The union says the department has changed its…

Not for nothing is the British Home Office known as a "great department of state". Former Home Office secretary Jacqui Smith talks policing, impact and…

Career diplomat Greg Moriarty will lead a coordinated counter-terrorism response. But will the new counter-terrorism coordinator role shift power towards the Prime Minister and his…