The Changing Australian Threat Landscape

Australia’s national security community is facing a critical moment in its history of countering extremism, radicalisation, and crime and terror.

In its 2026 annual threat assessment, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Director General Mike Burgess revealed that Australia has foiled 31 major terrorism plots since 2014. He added that 14 “significant terror-related cases” have been resolved since the Bondi terror attack in December 2025.

In this article, I map the threat landscape and the challenges the Australians will have to navigate in the coming months and years…

Iran’s Strategic Leap: Middle East War Expands

If anyone had doubts that the Iranian regime was engaged in terrorism, Tehran’s conduct after the Middle East War that erupted on February 28, 2026 has demonstrated adequately its preponderant use of terrorism! Using aerospace weapons – missiles, drones and rockets – the Iranian regime has mounted attacks on 12 countries in the neighbourhood, including mostly against civilian targets.

In this article, I address questions about what could come next now that Iran has displayed that its missile range could reach 4,000km. Read it here