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Defence Minister Richard Marles (left) said his US counterpart, Pete Hegseth, gave him a heads-up about the AUKUS review.

Australia quietly pays US another $800 million for AUKUS despite review

The second payment, made in the second quarter of this year, takes Australia’s contribution to the US industrial base to $1.6 billion with no guarantee AUKUS will continue.

  • Michael Koziol

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An Australian Army M1A1 Abrams tank during an exercise at Puckapunyal in Victoria in 2018.

Australian tanks arrive in Ukraine after nine-month wait

Around 40 Australian army tanks have arrived in Ukraine to help defend the country against Vladimir Putin’s invading Russian forces.

  • Matthew Knott
Trump and Marles.

Excuse me, Donald, a word? The Trump challenge facing Richard Marles

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles is representing Australia at NATO in the Netherlands. How might he win the chance to speak to US President Donald Trump?

  • Tony Wright
Pedro Sanchez

‘Crosses our red lines’: Trump demand divides NATO

The US president has made it clear to Europe that it cannot expect an unlimited American guarantee over its security. But Spain is refusing to play ball.

  • David Crowe
Gina Edwards and Oscar the cavoodle after she won her defamation case against Nine.

ABC makes cameo appearance in celebrity cavoodle legal drama

Journalists from the public broadcaster’s investigations team won access to documents related to an ongoing legal stoush involving the “million-dollar” dog.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Gina Edwards and Oscar the cavoodle after she won her defamation case against Nine.

How a tabloid dog attracted the attention of the ABC’s crack current affairs unit

The case of Oscar, the million-dollar celebrity cavoodle, sparked the interest of the unlikely player which surely must be the first time the ABC has sought to follow up an ACA tabloid banger.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Labor elder Paul Keating has launched a scathing tirade at Defence Minister Richard Marles.

Paul Keating accuses Marles of ‘careless betrayal’ over China

The Labor elder accused the defence minister and the government of “intellectually ceding Australia to the United States” as a platform for conflict with China.

  • Nick Bonyhady
The AUKUS review will certainly feature in talks should Anthony Albanese secure a meeting with Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit.

What’s the alternative? The many AUKUS questions the PM must answer

With news the United States is reviewing AUKUS, fundamental questions – both old and new – have surfaced about the merits of the $368 billion submarine deal. The Albanese government must confront them.

  • The Age's View
The future Virginia-class attack submarine.

Give Trump ‘a new Pine Gap’, say experts claiming AUKUS go-slow

Senior Australian government sources say the snap AUKUS review might be designed to gain leverage as Americans push Australia to spend more on defence.

  • Paul Sakkal
The trade war is morphing into a capital war.

‘Time to wake up’: Turnbull, opposition seize on Trump’s AUKUS review

Defence Minister Richard Marles and AUKUS architect Scott Morrison insist they are confident the United States will keep supporting the $368 billion submarine deal.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos, Paul Sakkal, Michael Koziol and Rob Harris

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