The Conversation – 21 April 2025.

For more than a century, Australia has followed the same defence policy: dependence on a great power. This was first the United Kingdom and then the United States.

Without properly considering other options, successive federal governments have intensified this policy with the AUKUS agreement and locked Australia into dependency on the US for decades to come.

By Adjunct Professor Albert Palazzo. First published in the Conversation, 21 April 2025