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Australia calls cyber experts to serve in new Defence Cyber Reserve Force
Experienced Australian cyber professionals are being encouraged to bring their skills into Defence under a new Cyber Reserve Force...
AS9 Huntsman artillery makes battlefield debut at Exercise Pozieres Run in Townsville
The Australian-made AS9 Huntsman artillery has made its battlefield debut after being deployed for the 1st (Australian) Division�...
New US tariffs on drones, components raise defence industry hackles in Australia
New tariffs announced by the US government on drone systems and their components have raised concerns about how Australian defence...
Nova doubles footprint of National Systems Integration Centre
Nova Systems has announced it will expand its National Systems Integration Centre into a new facility more than double the size of...
SPOTLIGHT: Cyber loyal wingmen – how frontier AI transforms Defence from defender disadvantage to asymmetric advantage
An adversary’s numerical advantage is something Australia faces across all domains, but the cyber domain is one area where Austr...
Opinion
New US tariffs on drones, components raise defence industry hackles in Australia
New tariffs announced by the US government on drone systems and their components have raised concerns about how Australian defence industry will be...
August 21 2026
Distance provides no protection for Australia against transnational cocaine campaign
Opinion: Colombia’s new president has vowed to reverse a coca boom four years in the making – Canberra has a stake in whether he can.
August 19 2026
New questions surround South Korean activists investigated after Ukraine POW mission
Opinion: A South Korean investigation into six activists who travelled to Ukraine has raised fresh questions over North Korean POW treatment, unpublished allegations and the...
August 17 2026
New AS9 Huntsman artillery capability crucial for war preparations, says Major General Collingburn
Australian Army AS9 Huntsman self-propelled howitzers and the AS10 armoured ammunition resupply vehicles are a crucial new capability for Australia’s war preparations,...
August 12 2026
Australian adaptability: Ukraine’s drone war is changing warfare, can the ADF adapt fast enough to keep up?
Will the rapid evolution of uncrewed systems on the battlefields of Ukraine force the Australian Defence Force to rethink how it develops, acquires and sustains military...
August 06 2026
What I saw in Kyiv should change how every Western nation thinks about defence innovation
Opinion: Ukraine has demonstrated that speed, adaptation and industrial agility are now decisive military advantages. Australia must transform how it innovates before the...
August 05 2026
Fresh engagement with Singapore and Japan signals ongoing effort to achieve regional stability
Australia’s defensive relationship with allies in Asia has fostered a supportive and collaborative environment, recently reaffirmed through engagements with Japan and...
August 01 2026
AUKUS: The strategy for a bygone era
Opinion: Former Australian diplomat Russell Rollason AM, in responding to Assistant Minister for Defence Peter Khalil MP, argues that the government has yet to make a...
July 29 2026
Tech talk: Luckey discusses Ghost Shark, artificial intelligence and facial recognition in defence
American entrepreneur Palmer Luckey has put forward his thoughts on the development of Australia’s Ghost Shark, the global leadership of artificial intelligence, creation...
July 28 2026
A new era of Defence may be on the horizon for Australian women
Right now, women in defence are under-represented, but new leadership changes might inspire the next generation of Australian women to protect our nation as warfighters,...
July 23 2026
Uncrewed underwater vehicles set to challenge ‘status quo’ of naval warfare
Opinion: I was giving a classified brief to a senior UK officer two weeks ago on what our Speartooth large uncrewed undersea vehicle (LUUV) will be capable of in the next six...
July 23 2026
When the missile is the message: China’s patient campaign to make the unacceptable routine
Opinion: In 1945, in the first free election Hungary had ever held, the communists lost, and badly. The Independent Smallholders’ Party took 57 per cent of the vote; the...
July 18 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
2 navies, similar problems, different solutions: Following Canada’s submarine decision
Opinion: Canada’s Type 212CD submarine selection reinforces that modern naval procurement is about more than capability, highlighting the strategic and industrial...
July 16 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
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
The complicated dynamics of peace deals: US and Iran
As the history of most conflicts goes, peace deals, finalising wars and coming to common ground between fighting nations are long, drawn-out processes. All too often, these...
June 27 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
Once-in-a-century reforms for veterans
In a weeks’ time, Australia’s veteran support landscape will undergo its most significant reform in generations, explains Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Defence...
June 24 2026