by Michael Shoebridge | May 27, 2026 | AUKUS, Featured, Strategy & Capability
Speaking last week, Defence Minister Richard Marles called the Collins class submarines “Australia’s most important military platform”. So it’s more than disturbing to read the ANAO Audit report on the Defence leadership’s disastrous management of the Collins fleet’s...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | May 26, 2026 | AUKUS, Featured, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
Australia’s Collins subs life extension scandal: 1 | RSS.com Marcus and Michael go through the scandalous revelations about 10 years of failed planning on extending the operational life of the only submarines Australia has – the 6 Collins class –...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | May 18, 2026 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Featured, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
Oz Budgets: the Unhappy meet the Disappointed. Big | RSS.com Michael and Marcus argue furiously over the merits and messages in the Albanese Govt budget versus Opposition leader Angus Taylor’s response. Only one of them is right….Then Marcus burrows deep...
by Marcus Hellyer | May 13, 2026 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Featured, Policy
The 2026-27 Defence Portfolio Budget Statements (PBS) are a very strange document. In fact, we’ve never seen anything quite like it. There are a couple of reasons for that. The first is the paradox that in an age of increasing defence budgets, funding actually goes...
by Marcus Hellyer | May 6, 2026 | Defence Budget, Featured, Policy, Strategy & Capability
The Albanese Government has released its second National Defence Strategy (NDS) along with a supporting Defence Integrated Investment Program (IIP). This follows the 2024 version. That was the first in a new approach to defence strategic policy planning which was...
