by Michael Shoebridge | Sep 15, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Featured, Policy
Mr Albanese has two choices on Australian defence spending as he prepares to meet US President Donald Trump in New York (hopefully, perhaps). He can increase Australia’s defence budget from its current 2 per cent share of GDP to somewhere around the 3.5 per cent...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Jul 15, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Oh dear, what have you done to my fleet!? & Is Aus | RSS.com The Grumpies go over an Audit report revealing the comprehensive, systemic failures of Defence, the Navy and its contractors to maintain and operate the Navy’s two biggest ships. The obvious...
by Michael Shoebridge | Jul 7, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Anthony Albanese has used a speech about our wartime prime minister John Curtin to assert Australia’s independence on security from America, right when our relations with Trump’s America and Xi Jinping’s China are both complicated and difficult. His speech will be...
by Michael Shoebridge | Jul 3, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Featured, Strategy & Capability
The Navy is systematically failing to manage and maintain the two largest ships in its fleet – the 27,000 tonne LHD amphibious ships HMAS Canberra and HMAS Adelaide. The scale of the troubles is laid out in a 108 page national audit office report, with almost...
by Michael Shoebridge | Jun 30, 2025 | China, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Policy, Strategy & Capability, Uncategorized
As we watch Donald Trump’s unpredictable America bomb Iran, and see Xi Jinping building his military to conquer Taiwan by force (if and when he so decides), plenty of familiar voices are saying now is the time to cut the cord with America and chart a new independent...
