AUKUS
- Opinion
- Drones
Ukrainian drone strikes show up Australia’s out-of-date defences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
Latest
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
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
- Analysis
- Science
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
- Tony Wright’s Column
- Donald 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
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
- Exclusive
- Defence
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
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
- Updated
- Trade wars
Trump mocks world leaders, claims they are ‘kissing my ass’ to make a deal on tariffs
Trump was speaking at a Republican Party black tie dinner after his own trade representative was grilled at a Senate hearing about why the US whacked tariffs on Australian goods.
- Michael Koziol
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