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December 05, 2025

US submarines carrying nuclear weapons could dock in Australia despite ban, Senate told

Defence secretary appears to contradict previous assurances from Penny Wong that only conventionally armed submarines will visit Australian ports...

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November 22, 2025

Human rights fears over Australia’s role in F-35 parts after Trump’s decision to sell fighter jets to Saudi Arabia

Experts warn US deal on ‘lethal’ aircraft presents issues for Australia that ‘we’ve tried desperately to ignore with the Israelis’Get our

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November 07, 2025

Google to build new AI datacentre on tiny Australian Indian Ocean outpost after signing defence deal

Military experts say facility on Christmas Island would be valuable asset to monitor Chinese submarine and naval activityGet our

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October 24, 2025

Australia’s $20m ‘iron fist’ deal with Israel’s largest arms company signed two weeks before UN genocide finding

Exclusive: Experts criticise federal government’s contract with Elbit Systems as ‘troubling acceptance’ of Israel’s conduct in GazaGet our

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October 24, 2025

Women launch class action against ADF alleging widespread sexual violence, misogyny and harassment

Female members of the military shouldn’t have to fight off their colleagues on a daily basis, lawyer says

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October 23, 2025

Aukus should expand to other shipbuilding nations, US congressman suggests, as Albanese returns to Australia

Senior US House armed services committee member says Washington must boost own manufacturing before it can sell nuclear submarines to Australia

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October 20, 2025

Australia says Chinese fighter jet released flares near RAAF aircraft in ‘dangerous’ incident

Richard Marles condemns Chinese military after flares let off ‘very close’ to Australian surveillance aircraft over South China SeaGet our

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October 17, 2025

Weapons maker Saab ‘directly linked’ to human rights breach after missile found in South Australian Indigenous area

Lawyer hopes investigation for OECD into 2021 find near Australian military testing range sets precedentGet our b...

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September 27, 2025

Australian defence force says ‘no place’ for extremists despite member’s link to neo-Nazi group

Man who remained in service more than eight months after involvement revealed was also charged with possessing extremist materialGet our

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September 17, 2025

Anthony Albanese fails to seal defence treaty between Australia and PNG

Australian PM will leave Port Moresby without agreement, sparking a setback for strategy to minimise China’s influence among Pacific nations

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September 15, 2025

Kim Beazley defends Australian War Memorial decision to exclude Ben Roberts-Smith book from prize

The former foreign minister says the Les Carlyon award is ‘explicitly for emerging authors’, disqualifying Chris Masters’s biography of the alleged...

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September 14, 2025

‘A facility for them’: Labor says WA shipyard to be used by US for sub maintenance as it commits $12bn

Defence minister says Henderson naval shipyard south of Perth ‘very much an Australian sovereign capability’ but admits US will use it tooGet our

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