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Lara Bowden, 10, playing in the mud in the wake of ex-cyclone Alfred, at Skennars Head in northern NSW

‘We need you’: NSW’s plea to rely on Defence in natural disasters

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred stalked the coast for days, but while the flooding risk for Lismore was downgraded, NSW is not out of the woods yet.

  • Matt Wade and Chris Barrett

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Anthony Albanese spoke with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at the weekend.

UK welcomes Albanese’s willingness to commit peacekeeping troops

Australia’s top military representative in Europe is preparing to head to Paris for high-powered talks on the future of Ukraine.

  • Matthew Knott
Nick Moir at the crash scene.

I dropped my camera and rushed to help after discovering mayhem of army trucks rollover

The Herald’s chief photographer Nick Moir was driving towards Lismore when he came across the accident involving two Australian Defence Force vehicles.

  • Nick Moir
A rescue operation got under way after an army tanker rolled south of Lismore.

Defence vehicles crash during flood rescue efforts, injuring 13

Thirteen people have been injured after two Australian Defence Force vehicles crashed near the flood-hit town of Lismore in northern NSW.

  • Carrie Fellner
Elbridge Colby

Trump admin to Australia: spending $56 billion on defence isn’t enough by half

One of Trump’s top Pentagon picks, Elbridge Colby, made the United States’ first explicit call for Australia to massively increase defence spending to counter China.

  • Matthew Knott
An Australian Army M1A1 Abrams tank.

Australia to send Ukraine more tanks but no peacekeeping troops

The bipartisan support was announced in the wake of the ugly White House confrontation between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.

  • David Crowe
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German shipbuilder TKMS’ Meko A-200 frigate is under consideration for the Australian navy’s general-purpose frigate.

‘We want a decision’: Marles slaps down official over key navy contract

Military experts said the presence of a Chinese flotilla had reinforced the vulnerabilities of Australia’s “old and small” fleet of warships.

  • Matthew Knott
Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

As Wong and Dutton exchange fire, the Chinese flotilla laps Australia

The foreign minister accused the Coalition of seeking political advantage from ships’ exercises in the Tasman with inflammatory rhetoric on China.

  • Matthew Knott

‘We’ve been exposed’: China’s ‘act of intimidation’ – and why Australia can’t complain

Listen: International editor Peter Hartcher breaks down how Chinese warships conducted exercises off Australia, and what it says about our defence force.

  • Peter Hartcher
People were warned to avoid Main Beach after a suspicious device was found.

Torpedo washed up on Gold Coast beach

A Gold Coast beach was closed down after a training torpedo was found washed up on the sand shortly after dawn.

  • Cameron Atfield

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