by Marcus Hellyer | Jun 17, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Policy
The Australian government has wedged itself on defence. The glaring gulf between its rhetoric around our strategic circumstances and its defence funding commitments have been called out by our great and powerful ally. It’s no longer just domestic analysts...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Jun 16, 2025 | AUKUS, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
The AUKUS emergency episode: What-the-Hell-Just Ha | RSS.com With the UK Eurovision entry “What-the-Hell-Just Happpppppened??” fitting Australia’s reaction to the Trump AUKUS review, Marcus and Michael discuss the two Oz views: “PANIC...
by Michael Shoebridge | Jun 4, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
As Anthony Albanese’s election euphoria fades, the hard work of his second term has begun. And there’s probably not much that’s more difficult than navigating his meeting with US President Donald Trump at the G7 in Alberta Canada. Mr Trump demonstrated his lack...
by Peter Jennings | Jun 3, 2025 | Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Strategy & Capability
Pete Hegseth, the tough-talking US Secretary of Defence, has “conveyed” to Richard Marles “that Australia should increase its defence spending to 3.5 per cent of its GDP as soon as possible”. A “readout” of this meeting was released by the US Department of...
by Peter Jennings | Jun 2, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific
Anthony Albanese’s first face-to-face meeting with US President Donald Trump will happen in Alberta, Canada, at the mid-June G7 meeting. It would be astonishing if Albanese didn’t go on to visit Trump in Washington DC. In the past, Australian prime ministers and US...
