The cable-laying ship Ile de Brehat landing the Coral Sea Cable at Tamarama Beach, Sydney, in 2019
DFAT

Connected & protected: building Australia’s submarine cable resilience
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of Australia’s submarine cables network and provides recommendations to promote our economic interests and secure our submarine cables network.
  • Indo-Pacific
  • submarine cables
  • undersea cables
  • Information technology
  • critical technology
  • Telecommunications
  • National security
  • Maritime
Authors of the new NSC report on subsea cables with NSC staff
Jed Buchanan/NSC
Tue, 11 Aug 2026

NSC launches landmark report on submarine cable resilience

The ANU National Security College has launched a landmark report on Australia’s submarine cable resilience and what's needed to protect this critical infrastructure
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Dr Sam Howerton on tour at the National Computational Infrastructure
Jed Buchanan/ANU

From Gadi to the frontline: technology, trust and Australia's security future
NSC recently hosted Dr Sam Howerton, Chief Scientist at the US Department of Homeland Security.
  • artificial intelligence
  • computing
  • critical technology
  • United States
Person walking through projected graphic designs
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Building cooperation: cyber, critical technology and national security
As part of the Quad Tech Network series, Kohei Takahashi, Tatsuo Ide, Ikuo Takahashi, Kazuo Tokito and Takahiro Sasaki address cyber, critical technology and national security.
  • Japan
  • Quad
  • cyber
  • critical technology
Art installation
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Embracing difference: governance of critical technologies in the Indo-Pacific
Jolyon Ford and Damian Clifford address what an approach to human rights and the ethical governance of critical technologies could entail for Quad members.
  • critical technology
  • Indo-Pacific
  • Quad
  • ethical governance

Australian subsea cables
David Brewster interview | ABC

Australian spy plane to watch Middle East battle space
David Andrews interview | Country News