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As Defence’s core functions fail, what’s the plan for change?
A defence force has to have three things work well to be effective: it has to recruit and retain the skilled people it needs, it has to choose the equipment a military needs to succeed in conflict, and it has to operate and support that...
Landing craft create paths for shipbuilding
Finally there is some good news in the defence shipbuilding space. On Thursday 24 November, the Australian Government announced that the West Australian shipbuilder Austal would build the Army’s new medium landing craft designed by NSW...
AUKUS own goals – Australia’s disastrous new draft export controls
AUKUS own goals - Australia's new draft export controls | RSS.com "It looks like Australia just gave up its sovereignty and got nothing for it" - Bill Greenwalt (intergalactic expert on US export control laws): This episode focuses on the...
Missing his moment: PM afraid to say difficult things but comfortable leaving our military in harm’s way
At APEC in San Fransisco, Mr Albanese told us this about his meeting there with Xi Jinping “I also had an opportunity to meet with President Xi and to thank him for the welcome and the discussions that we had in my visit to China recently.”...
Australia has lost its strategic authority at APEC
In a brief media doorstop after arriving in San Francisco, Anthony Albanese used the word “important” 11 times to describe his visit and the necessity of attending APEC. He said seven times that he was “catching up” with various leaders,...
AUKUS Plan B: delivering greater military power faster – the B-21 Raider
After the release of the damning – self-written – summary of the Defence leadership’s failed advice to the government on the $45 billion Hunter frigate, no one can have any confidence that other key decisions on military capability are any...
Israel is playing by the rules in war against Hamas
Penny Wong has called on Israel to stop “the attacking of hospitals” in Gaza. Australia was “particularly concerned with what is happening with medical facilities … I would make this point in relation to hospitals and medical facilities...
The Travel and Accountability edition: Tuvalu, leadership failure and the Hunter frigates – and the B-21
The Travel and Accountability Edition: Tuvalu, leadership failure & the Hunter frigates, and the B-21 | RSS.com Australian PM Albanese's world tour ends with a bright spot in the South Pacific. On the $45 billion Hunter frigate program, an...
Israel faces excruciating dilemmas in its fight to save hostages
Israel has agreed to daily military pauses in northern Gaza for humanitarian purposes. But a wholesale Israeli ceasefire in Gaza still hangs in the balance. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected this unless the 240 hostages held in...
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