Richard Marles and Pat Conroy, our Defence and Defence Industry ministers, are living the lonely...
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Grasping the Defence nettle
Recent days have covered the apparent—and to insiders, longstanding—differences between the...
Lavishly funded but broke: Australia’s Defence Department needs a zero-based budget
The Australian Defence Department is broke. That must sound outrageous to almost every other...
Getting on the front foot to help pave way for Gaza’s future
Foreign Minister Penny Wong arrives in Israel this week with an opportunity to develop a...
Indicators & warnings for a troubled Defence Force – & an unwanted but necessary Christmas gift
The Christmas-New Year Edition - indicators and warnings for the Defence Force - and a Christmas...
Labor adrift in a sea of foreign policy impotence
The Albanese government ends 2023 adrift on national security and foreign policy, like the HMAS...
Gaza statement a prime example of moral posturing
The biggest flaw in the joint statement on Gaza from the prime ministers of Australia, Canada and...
Prime minister Albanese’s strategic fleet folly
It’s long been Labor policy to stand up our own flagged and Australian-crewed merchant navy for...
Where to after the dust settles in Gaza
In agreeing to ceasefires Israel has been put in a terrible dilemma. It must weigh one clearly...
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...
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...
Australia has lost its strategic authority at APEC
In a brief media doorstop after arriving in San Francisco, Anthony Albanese used the word...
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...
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...
Hoping no one joins the dots: what Mr Albanese’s three visit journey shows the world
You have to wonder what Joe Biden, Xi Jinping and Cook Islands’ Mark Brown make of prime minister...