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Troops practice live firing at Darwin for Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025.

Inside Australia’s biggest war games, Exercise Talisman Sabre

A Queensland police sergeant reveals what it’s like for him and his team in the nation’s biggest operation to protect Australia’s borders in the event of war.

  • Cloe Read

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An Australian Army M1A1 Abrams tank during an exercise at Puckapunyal in Victoria in 2018.

Australian tanks arrive in Ukraine after nine-month wait

Around 40 Australian army tanks have arrived in Ukraine to help defend the country against Vladimir Putin’s invading Russian forces.

  • Matthew Knott
An Australian Army ARH Tiger helicopter during exercises in June.

Helicopter damaged, regiment grounded after ‘hard landing’ in war games

A regiment of Tiger helicopters have been grounded, and an investigation launched, after one was damaged in the Northern Territory.

  • Cloe Read and Josh Bavas
Major General Toshikatsu Musha, commander of Japan’s Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade at Camp Ainoura in Sasebo, Japan.

Meet the Japanese marines getting ready to storm Australian beaches

Crack Japanese troops will call Australia home for three weeks as they participate in exercises widely seen as designed to simulate a future conflict with China.

  • David King
Anthony Albanese, Donald Trump and AUKUS.

If we go to war, submarines come too: How US could demand AUKUS changes

Australia is facing the prospect of a Trump administration review demanding it pay more for the $368 billion AUKUS pact – and a guarantee that it supports the US in any conflict.

  • Paul Sakkal and Michael Koziol
Gary Rumble in a Senate committee hearing in 2014.

‘It is unconscionable’: Defence abuse inquiry chair speaks out

Gary Rumble conducted a review that uncovered widespread sexual abuse in the ADF more than a decade ago. He says little has changed.

  • Nick Bonyhady
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ADF abuse claims. 

Our military harbours rapists. Where is the political outrage?

Neither side has much at all to say on the ongoing assaults against women by the very men tasked with assuring our security.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Former Defence Minister, Senator Linda Reynolds.

‘What parent would want their daughter to enlist?’ Former defence minister in despair

Linda Reynolds and veterans groups have warned the crisis of sexual abuse in the military is affecting recruitment at a time when the ADF is trying to rapidly expand.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Bonyhady
Trump boards Air Force One to fly to the NATO summit.

NATO countries bowed to Trump’s defence demands. It’ll cost them 19,800 fighter jets

NATO countries will lift their defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP. Here’s what it could mean for them – and how it could hit Australia.

  • Millie Muroi and Angus Delaney
Donald Trump and Anthony Albanese could meet in Kananaskis, Alberta, next month.

What will Albanese give Trump on defence? Not much

The prime minister has told colleagues that if they asked for money in the way the US has on defence, they’d be laughed out of the room.

  • James Massola

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