Make Submission to NSC's Securing Our Future

Australia's national security decision-makers are asking: What keeps you up at night? What threatens our future? What should we protect? The ANU National Security College is conducting Australia's first comprehensive study of public attitudes towards national security, and their findings will shape government policy, parliamentary debate, and security priorities through 2026 and beyond.

We have until 5pm AEDT Friday 31 October 2025 to make our voices heard.

This is a unique opportunity to influence how Australia prepares for emerging threats. While 80% of Australians believe preventing AI-driven catastrophic risks should be a global priority, and 96% hold concerns about generative AI, current policy responses fall short. AI systems are approaching human-level performance across many domains, and leading experts predict Artificial General Intelligence could emerge as early as 2026 or 2027. The decisions we make in the next 12-24 months could determine whether AI enhances or undermines Australian security.

AI threatens every dimension of Australian security: it's shifting defence capabilities by democratising dangerous technologies, undermining economic security through massive job displacement, challenging democratic resilience through synthetic content and manipulation, and creating catastrophic risks we're unprepared to manage. Yet Australia has no AI Safety Institute, limited sovereign capacity to evaluate these systems, and regulation that's falling behind AI development.

Use our submission tool below to help draft your submission for the NSC's 2026 report that will guide government policy, parliamentary debate, and national security priorities.