While Australia has been much more than just a ‘lucky country’ when it comes to biosecurity, it can’t afford to rest on its laurels, Paul Barnes writes.

The coming energy transformation could create a world with fewer disputes over resource supply and access – we just need to address the threat of cyber-attacks against our Internet-of-Energy, Ken Baldwin writes. This is a chapter from Securing our Energy, the new publication from the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific.

With the Arab world still saturated by extremists and with new cyber capabilities making their way into the hands of jihadis, the international community can’t afford to become complacent about terrorism, Isaac Kfir writes.

Policymakers need to stop being drawn to the myth of the ‘quick fix’ and focus on long-term and sustained development of research and development as an ecosystem if they really want to solve those wicked problems, Lesley Seebeck writes.

Policymakers need to recognise solar photovoltaics and wind as the cheapest solution to global warming in a short time frame, Andrew Blakers and Matthew Stocks write in this chapter from Securing our Energy, the new publication from the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific.

If policymakers are serious about tackling infectious diseases, they can’t afford to neglect the role of conflict as a key driver of vulnerability, Erin Sorrell and Claire Standley write.