‘Alarm bells’: Plea for AUKUS back-up
Barnaby Joyce is calling for a “contingency plan” amid fears the US is abandoning the centrepiece of Australia’s 21st century defence strategy.
The AUKUS a landmark agreement between the US, UK and Australia, which was announced to share military technology and boost combined military strength in the Asia-Pacific region.
Barnaby Joyce is calling for a “contingency plan” amid fears the US is abandoning the centrepiece of Australia’s 21st century defence strategy.
The Prime Minister has confirmed that he will likely meet with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Canada.
SA’s Premier wants to charge ahead on the $2bn nuclear submarine yard in Adelaide, even as a Trump administration review threatens the project.
Speaking from Fiji, the Prime Minister knocked back claims the AUKUS defence pact had been derailed after the Pentagon announced a review into the program.
A major move by the Trump administration has sparked warnings Australia’s defence could be left high and dry.
Australia’s longest-serving foreign minister, who is close to key Trump advisers, says the $368bn AUKUS subs deal makes too much sense to be torpedoed in a new Pentagon review.
The Coalition is probing if Labor sanctioning senior Israeli ministers is behind a surprise decision from the Trump administration.
The architect of the AUKUS pact and nuclear subs deal, former PM Scott Morrison, has weighed in on a US review that’s creating serious alarm across Australia.
Australia’s top diplomat in the US is in Canberra as a major defence pact between the two nations risks becoming a casualty in Donald Trump’s “America First agenda”.
Anthony Albanese has been grilled on when Australia can expect its fleet of nuclear-powered submarines after a shock move from the UK.
Workers at Adelaide’s naval shipyard are walking off the job of building the nation’s $45bn frigates over a huge pay claim.
Labor is poised to win all seven metropolitan Adelaide federal seats with a campaign boosted by “potent political weapon”, Premier Peter Malinauskas.
Premier Peter Malinauskas has echoed Donald Trump’s opposition to mandating diversity but championed inclusion of people with autism as “an absolute no-brainer for our economy”.
AUKUS paints a target on Australia and the ‘poor, secret’ $368bn deals should be urgently reviewed by the next government, a retired general says.
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