Reach for the stars: space as the final frontier in foreign policy

Space is being widely viewed as the next domain of politics, diplomacy and warfare, and Australia is taking the space domain seriously.

This is demonstrated by the creation of the Australian Space Agency (ASA) in 2018 to protect commercial Australian interests, and the Defence Space Command in 2022 to protect Australian sovereignty in space. The establishment of these two stations comes from a long history of humanity turning its attention to space as the final frontier that signals where Australian national interests lie. … Continue readingReach for the stars: space as the final frontier in foreign policy