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Australia

Stable

Australia sits on the supply side of two things the rest of this map is fighting over — gas and critical minerals — while its security and its customers point in opposite directions. Secure and well-supplied; the strain here is strategic, not domestic.

Parliament House in Canberra, seat of the Australian federal parliament
Parliament House, Canberra — the seat of the government this hub covers.Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
STABILITY78
ECONOMY70
CONFLICT RISK28

Placeholder — not yet a considered read. These three figures were typed to demonstrate the panel, not derived from any assessment of Australia. No source publishes them and we have not yet done the work behind them. They stay until the read is actually made. how we score

Influence Meter

6 dimensions of power

A middle power whose one strong axis is energy: gas and minerals the rest of this map is competing for. Modest on every dimension that is not supply — which is why its security points one way and its customers the other.

AustraliaAUS
58COMPOSITE INFLUENCE
EnergySTRONGEST AXIS
MILITARYECONOMICDIPLOMATICTECHNOLOGYENERGYSOFT POWER
  • Military46
  • Economic58
  • Diplomatic56
  • Technology52
  • Energy78
  • Soft Power58

Each axis is rated 0–100 against the other actors on this site, not against an absolute — the United States is the ceiling. The composite is a weighted average of the six. No source publishes these ratings; the formula is arithmetic, the numbers going into it are our editorial judgment. how we score

ResourcesEnergyGeopolitics

Active connections

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What we intend to cover

Editorial intent, not findings. Nothing below has been analysed yet.

  • LNG supply as the swing factor when pipeline gas is withdrawn.
  • Critical minerals and the attempt to move up the processing chain.
  • The structural tension of a security alliance and a trade dependence pointing at rivals.