About CeNSE

The purpose of the Centre for National Security Ethics (CeNSE) is to promote a much higher standard of public debate around the ethical implication of government decisions affecting the security of Australians. This applies to individual citizens and non-citizens, our communities, and the country as a whole. We are especially interested in decisions involving policing, imprisonment, use of force and state coercion in the country (including military aid to the civil power) or use of force (military and para-military power) in foreign conflicts. The centre is being launched as resources allow. In March 2025, we decided to go public to contribute to debate on the impacts on Australia of the turn by the US Administration to authoritarianism and destabilisation of the rule of law in international affairs.