Same-sex marriage anathema to Howard
John Howard’s cabinet pondered banning gay couples from adopting foreign children by legislating against overseas same-sex unions, newly released documents show.
Special Reports
Bag the best deal for that dream 2025 trip
Planning a big trip for 2025? Here’s how you can make some major savings in the 2024 Black Friday sales.
Sales events a sign of the times
Black Friday has become one of the biggest shopping events of the Australian retail landscape.
Tech spend-fest looks set to defy cost of living crunch
Harvey Norman is aiming to woo shoppers with a range of Black Friday deals on popular items, from headphones and laptops to home audio and security systems.
Wine club deal: $1000 case for bargain hunters
For the first time in the history of the wine club we’re offering a dozen with a retail value of more than $1000 – with a saving of more than $700.
The ADF is still not fit for purpose
The Armed Forces and the government need to throw out the old inefficient and expensive way of doing things and think outside the box.
Addressing Australia’s counter-drone challenge: the time to act is now
No longer confined to surveillance or reconnaissance, drones are transforming modern warfare and Australia needs to be prepared.
Collaboration key to Australia becoming aircraft maintenance, repair hub
In an increasingly contested Indo-Pacific, Australia’s role in maintaining regional security is critical.
JABMS to deliver air, missile vision
Lockheed Martin Australia aims to deliver the core of the ADF’s Joint Air Battle Management System (JABMS), in a rapid-fire, nine-month drumbeat of capability ‘drops’ in Project AIR6500.
Joining dots on new subs’ combat systems
Now the Royal Australian Navy has disclosed its plans to acquire two new classes of nuclear-powered submarines, all the dots are finally on the page.
The urgent search for a skilled Australian workforce
Finding thousands of Australians with the right skills to deliver the SSN-AUKUS fleet is a formidable challenges that lie ahead for the nation’s next-generation submarine program.
Technology, innovation key to ADF capability and flexibility
Australia’s strategic landscape is shifting rapidly, with the country facing a range of evolving security threats and heightened tensions in the Indo-Pacific region.
It’s time to build our weapons capacity
The time to build stockpiles of weapons and Australian industrial capacity is now.
Taipan helicopters gone but not forgotten
Defence and the government might have tried to dismantle the entire MRH90 Taipan fleet in secret, but information keeps dribbling out.
Rhetoric or reality? Our security is the priority
If, as stated in the National Defence Strategy, the defence aim is to deter and hence reduce the risk of conflict, then we need to be doing different things, and doing them differently.
The doomed conceit of a political AUKUS
AUKUS will not be defeated by its lack of any plausible policy foundation, its unsupported intelligence pronouncements, or the absence of any implementation plan. It will be defeated by its unachievability, as much in Britain and the US as in Australia.
Anduril looking to overturn tradition
US company Anduril, which is better known for developing the Ghost Shark autonomous submarine for the Navy, is one of four companies that will respond to Defence’s request for establishing a rocket motor manufacturing complex in Australia.
Budget holding back whole-of-Defence strategy
Rapid technological change has wrought significant changes in how wars are fought and won. So, DSTG is a party to the reimagining and overhaul of Defence’s capability development and acquisition processes.
Nova Systems at the ready to aid ADF in testing, evaluation
Achieving the Defence aim of ‘speed to capability’ and delivery of ‘minimum viable capability’ requires sufficient test and evaluation, certification and systems assurance
Frigate fiasco appears sunk before it’s begun
The trend of building some of our warships locally is set to end with the build of the RAN’s first three General Purpose Frigates (GPFs) in a northern hemisphere shipyard.
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