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Then Prince Charles, Now King Charles, with former prime Minister Scott Morrison, who was awarder in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours.

Morrison ‘saved lives’: Why former PM deserves highest honour in the land

It’s been branded by some as “the worst insult to all Australians”, but there is a case amid the controversy for Scott Morrison’s royal-endorsed gong.

  • Shane Wright

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Ukrainian drones destroy Russian bombers

Ukrainian drone strikes show up Australia’s out-of-date defences

With a focus on AUKUS and averting risk, Australia risks fighting the last war rather than the next one.

  • Mick Ryan
Julia Gillard: beam me up.

To boldly go ... Julia Gillard set to turn into a prime ministerial hologram

Not only has PM27 had a play written about her, which will play Melbourne (again) in June, but Julia Gillard is getting what no other prime minister living or dead has managed to achieve.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman

‘Be very realistic’: Defence expert on the new world order – and Indonesia’s rise

Professor Hugh White, our leading defence and intelligence analyst, discusses Australia’s national security in the shadow of Trump’s foreign policy shift.

  • Greg Callaghan
A Virginia-class attack submarine.

Trump’s billionaire envoy joins Starmer in show of force for AUKUS

Warren Stephens put $9m towards Trump’s re-election. And his first public appearance in London on Monday involved Australia.

  • Rob Harris
Dr Kaitlin Cook, deputy scientific director of the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility, and Emeritus Professor David Hinde.

How this Australian particle accelerator highlights a crisis facing AUKUS

Australia’s strongest particle accelerator helped conjure new elements into being. But many students trained at the facility are being hired offshore.

  • Angus Dalton
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After the election, is it time to rethink Australia’s relationship with the US in the time of Trump?

After the election, is it time to farewell the US protection racket?

Whoever wins government on May 3, a crucial decision awaits: what do we do about the alliance with Donald Trump’s America?

  • Tony Wright
Military experts are concerned that Australia’s move to acquire Virginia-class submarines is distorting the defence budget.

The fourth service: How AUKUS is consuming the defence budget

Army. Air force. Navy … AUKUS? The nuclear submarine program could soon cost as much as, or more than, other branches of our military, experts say.

  • Matthew Knott
Christopher Pyne tours the HMAS Collins submarine when he was Defence Minister in 2018.

Trump uncertainty not biggest threat to $368 billion AUKUS pact, Pyne says

The former defence minister turned lobbyist is confident the $368 billion deal will come to fruition, but admits US support under Trump is “qualified”.

  • Michael Koziol
Donald Trump has asked Elon Musk to find improvements in US shipbuilding.

Musk to review US submarines as Australia warned tariffs could push up cost

Donald Trump has ordered Elon Musk to improve the capacity of US shipbuilding amid growing concern that his tariffs will increase the cost of the AUKUS pact.

  • Michael Koziol

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