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Kongsberg secures new 10-year contract for vessel traffic service system in Port Hedland
Norwegian multinational defence company Kongsberg has been awarded a new 10-year contract to deliver a vessel traffic service syst...
Ben Roberts-Smith talks Australian Army directives, the soldier’s code and that ‘farcical’ airport arrest
Victoria Cross recipient and former Australian Army soldier Ben Roberts-Smith, accused of committing alleged war crimes, has share...
Australia to provide maritime patrol vessels, strengthen cyber security under new Timor-Leste agreement
Australia will provide new Timor-Leste National Police maritime patrol vessels and strengthen Timor-Leste’s cyber security capab...
Goldsworthy Veterans and Families Centre supports Perth’s veteran community
Opinion: The first time Leon Goldsworthy tried to enlist in the Navy in Perth, he was rejected for being too short.
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National Reconstruction Fund invests $245m into Austal’s Landing Craft Heavy production
National Reconstruction Fund invests $245 million into Australian shipbuilder Austal Limited to help strengthen the country’s mi...
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Get used to it: Former ambassador warns Australia to expect more Chinese power projection close to home
With China seeming to have “locked down” hegemony in Eurasia, its focus will inevitably turn to the wider Indo-Pacific. For Australia’s former...
July 21 2026
Beyond Defence: Lessons in innovation from across industry
Opinion: Australia’s Chief Defence Scientist, Professor Tanya Monro AC, has challenged industry to build the resilience, adaptability and partnerships needed to strengthen...
July 20 2026
ADIA 2026 Academic of the Year: Creating excellence in defence industry
You don’t have to be excellent to start, but you have to start to become excellent.
July 17 2026
Slow learners: Doubling down and rolling out the red carpet for another potential adversary
Melbourne cheered a foreign political rally and called it diplomacy. If Beijing or even Washington had run the same playbook, we’d have called it foreign interference, so...
July 15 2026
Pax Australis: Towards an Australian hemisphere?
As great power competition returns, Australia faces a defining choice: remain a declining, middling middle power or embrace its potential as the strategic, political and...
July 14 2026
SDIP26 – mind the gaps: How to close them and not paper over them
Opinion: The 2026 Defence Industry Development Strategy improves the transparency of Australia’s Sovereign Defence Industrial Priorities but not the underlying framework...
July 13 2026
Don’t build your defence start-up in Queensland
Opinion: A year ago (June 2025), I wrote an article, Navigating the challenges of building a defence company in Queensland. Given some recent decisions by the Queensland...
July 10 2026
Paperwork v missiles: Australia, China and neighbourhood security
Opinion: Australia’s Pacific security partnerships risk becoming little more than paperwork unless they’re backed by credible military power to deter China, warns...
July 08 2026
AIs are only human – so what can we do?
Opinion: Air Marshal (Ret’d) John Harvey AM argues that large language models will always remain fallible, making careful verification, appropriate tool selection, human...
July 07 2026
The nuclear temptation: Why Australia can’t outsource its strategic anxiety to ‘the bomb’
From submarines and stealth bombers to nuclear weapons, Australia keeps chasing silver bullets. Real, sustainable security, prosperity and stability mean confronting regional...
July 06 2026
Australia’s zombie defence industry policy is rewarmed – the 2026 DIDS reinforces failure
Opinion: Strategic Analysis Australia’s Michael Shoebridge argues that the 2026 Defence Industry Development Strategy is a rehash of the failed 2024 version, criticising...
July 04 2026
What’s in a name? Battlelines drawn as patriotism becomes part of the political debate
Depending on who you ask, patriotism means different things to different people. It has different characteristics, priorities, objectives and “vibe”, with major...
July 03 2026
Hand thrown to drone dropped: Could Ukrainian tactics shape the Australian Defence Force’s next grenade?
New insights gleamed from the battlefields of Ukraine raise questions around the longevity of one of the Australian Defence Force’s oldest weapons, the humble and...
July 03 2026
AIs are only human
Opinion: LLM “errors” range from accidental to adversarial, each with a human-expert parallel – from the confidently wrong specialist to the outright censor. Knowing...
July 02 2026
Short-changed? British government releases initial details for £15bn ‘splurge’ on Defence capability
The outgoing British prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has finally begun to release details about his prime ministerial swansong, the long-awaited Defence Investment Plan...
July 01 2026
Shots fired! Ex-British Defence chief issues stark warning, words of wisdom for incoming PM
With dust beginning to settle in Westminster’s halls of power, former British Defence chief, Admiral (Ret’d) Sir Tony Radakin has provided some timely advice about the...
June 30 2026
From aye, aye to AI: Why military judgement still matters
Opinion: Air Marshal (Ret’d) John Harvey AM asks a critical question as militaries around the world accelerate their adoption of artificial intelligence: Can machines...
June 29 2026
Beyond experimentation: MQ-28 Ghost Bat spreads its wings on the world stage at Valiant Shield 2026
It’s fair to say that the MQ-28 Ghost Bat collaborative combat aircraft has been kicking some goals lately.
June 26 2026
Writing cheques our body can’t cash: Middle powers fall behind on ‘stabilising’ ambitions, capabilities
When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney declared to the World Economic Forum that “middle powers” collectively need to lift their game to act in the interest of the...
June 24 2026
2 navies, similar problems, different solutions: Canada and Australia’s diverging submarine futures
Opinion: Despite near-identical challenges, Canada’s pursuit of a larger, conventional submarine fleet for speed and affordability provides an interesting contrast compared...
June 23 2026