Australian PM launches National Security Strategy | Connect Asia

In announcing the federal government's National Security Strategy, Ms Gillard underscored the dramatic economic and strategic shift towards the Asia-Pacific region and a blueprint for national security over the next decade.

She says the strategy will guide Australia's response to risks and identifies the main challenges and threats to the country's national security, including instability in our region, conflict and coercion affecting our interests, malicious cyber activity, terrorism, espionage, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and serious and organised crime.

Speaker: Julia Gillard, Australian Prime Minister