The Trump administration has been calling on its partners and allies to lift defence spending to...
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Sovereignty costs. If you won’t pay for it, you don’t have it
Sovereignty was once, fleetingly, the poster child of Australian defence policy and...
Episode 50: With friends like this…& Why spend real money on defence when you can just seem to?
Episode 50: With friends like this...& Why spend r | RSS.com Marcus is back from Australia's...
The Trump-Albanese meeting: Good news – he’s just not that into us
In the beating heart of this nation’s capital, Canberra, many of us have been thinking and...
Team Albanese works hard to make Australia’s Defence budget LOOK ‘bigglier’
Mr Albanese has two choices on Australian defence spending as he prepares to meet US President...
Close Encounters of the Superficial Kind: Mr Marles goes to Washington
What’s the rush, Richard Marles, sorry, Deputy Prime Minister? You and your government have been...
Oh dear, what have you done to my fleet!? & Is Australia now bandwagoning AND free-riding??
Oh dear, what have you done to my fleet!? & Is Aus | RSS.com The Grumpies go over an Audit report...
What could Anthony Albanese be saying about Taiwan & regional security on his China trip?
Senior figures in the Trump Administration are asking if Australia is committed to deterring...
There’s nothing behind the prime minister’s Curtin
Anthony Albanese has used a speech about our wartime prime minister John Curtin to assert...
Trouble in the Navy’s material world is trouble for Australia’s security – & AUKUS
The Navy is systematically failing to manage and maintain the two largest ships in its fleet – the...
Someone is telling China’s story well, but it’s not Ambassador Xiao
Beijing’s representative in Australia, Ambassador Xiao Qian, has just spent 900 words in an...
Is Australia willing to pay the costs of unthethering from America?
As we watch Donald Trump’s unpredictable America bomb Iran, and see Xi Jinping building his...
Richard Marles and Australia’s defence ‘quality’ problem
Why didn’t Richard Marles explain to Donald Trump and the other 31 leaders of NATO nations that...
Needy, dismissive and critical: Australia & the US allliance
The Albanese government’s relationship with the US Trump Administration is a mix of...
Australia falls behind as Trump Doctrine reshapes the strategic landscape
The coming week may be the most important yet in Donald Trump’s presidency. It will be the...