The Defence portfolio’s mid-year budget update, the Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements...
Penguins, not principles, key to Australia’s Trump management – & Ozzie maritime strategy tied to a collapsing US Navy
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge
Penguins, not principles, key to Australia's Trump | RSS.com Marcus & Michael pull together a...
Trump shows what coercing the neighbourhood looks like
Donald Trump ordered the US military and CIA to abduct Venezuela’s president Maduro and his wife...
The hunt for Defence reform downunder: Mr Conroy & the Yeti. And the mystery of sea control with a tiny fleet
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge
The hunt for Defence reform downunder: Mr Conroy & | RSS.com Marcus & his fellow SES emergency...
Australian industry gets more Aussie, while Australia writes defence cheques it can’t cash
Australian industry gets more Aussie, while Austra | RSS.com Marcus and Michael pursue littoral...
The legalities and politics of the Sumud Flotilla to Gaza
by Greg Rose
In the Mediterranean Sea, on Thursday 2 October 2025, the Israeli Navy intercepted a 45-boat...
Sovereignty costs. If you won’t pay for it, you don’t have it
by Graeme Dunk
Sovereignty was once, fleetingly, the poster child of Australian defence policy and...
Beijing is running rings around us in Pacific
The Albanese government’s failure to conclude security treaties with Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu...
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...
The contribution to peace Albanese could make at the UN
by Mike Kelly and Anthony Bergin
Anthony Albanese will be in New York next week to participate in a high-level meeting to...
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...
The Age of Impunity: unilateral use of force damages us all
Anyone thinking the Israeli government’s strike on senior Hamas personnel in Qatar or the American...
Questions for the federal government about ISIS brides’ return
Anthony Albanese is hiding his government’s involvement to return the third group of so-called...
Europe’s lessons in dealing with unreliability, extended deterrence for Aussie streets & lost luggage
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge
Europe's lessons in dealing with unreliability, ex | RSS.com In Episode 49, Marcus and Michael go...
Not too late for Anthony Albanese and Benjamin Netanyahu to repair valuable bilateral relationship
Anthony Albanese says Australians want to see two things happen on the conflict in Gaza: “One,...












