Bob Menendez,as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,defended the AUKUS agreement from Republican resistance.
A landmark report on external climate risks was delivered last year,but the government has resisted calls from crossbenchers to make public a redacted version.
Sam Roggeveen is firing rhetorical torpedoes at Australia’s cosy consensus on defence and stirring up debate with his provocative new book,The Echidna Strategy.
Is it possible to be supremely ambitious while having limited ambitions? Anthony Albanese believes it is.
The stark truth is that “stabilisation” is a hope and a prayer. The missiles are a back-up in case hopes and prayers are ineffective.
The Australian Defence Force would quickly begin using locally made surveillance drones under a push to make the military less dependent on Chinese technology.
It won’t really matter how good or bad our credit is if we are going under thanks to climate change.
There is no precedent for building a submarine hull in one country,installing another country’s technology and assembling it in a third which has no nuclear expertise.
The contract comes amid a growing debate about the public service’s reliance on external advice for tasks that would once have been performed in-house.
Australia will soon have naval missiles capable of striking targets 1500 kilometres away in a major boost to the nation’s long-range firepower.
The Greens are squeezing Labor and causing them to lose millennial and boomer voters.