Australia,the US and Japan have sent a defiant message to China by putting their increasingly close partnership on an alliance-style footing.
The former Labor leader looks set to make a night of it in the capital after he formally bids adieu to parliament.
The Coalition and Greens leapt upon the delay to accuse the Albanese government of dithering when required to make tough decisions about the defence portfolio.
Who flew where,how and who paid are fast becoming the defining questions in politics.
The deal will equip Australia’s navy with hundreds of advanced US-made long-range weapons.
The immediate decision before Albanese was how to deal with two important heads of state asking for attention at almost the same time. Why couldn’t he satisfy both?
The donation of 49 Abrams tanks will take the total of Australian aid to $1.5b for the embattled nation.
Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley said Jo Tarnawsky’s allegations of being shunted aside as the defence minister’s chief of staff were “extremely serious”.
The deputy prime minister’s chief of staff claims she was ‘bullied out’ of her job after reporting workplace issues,leaving her with panic attacks and flashbacks.
On the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel,our Resolve Political Monitor poll finds little support for Sunday protests.
Paul Keating says the AUKUS defence pact is “act of sublimation” to the US. Richard Marles thinks the plan has a parallel in the Labor luminary’s time as PM.