China’s massive commercial ship-building
In only two decades, China has grown to be the dominant player in shipbuilding, claiming more than half of the world’s commercial shipbuilding market,...
Chinese ships off the coast shows complacency
By Tom Lewis*
A Chinese naval flotilla cruising down the east coast of Australia sends two messages. One is “here we are and we’re here...
Rethink AUKUS, ex-Defence chief says
The United States has become an unreliable ally under Donald Trump’s presidency and the Albanese government should urgently develop a plan B for Australia’s...
N-subs: let’s move to Plan B
By Peter Briggs*
The Trump administration’s actions in abandoning long-term alliances with Europe, support for Nato and Ukraine is a wakeup call. The new reality...
AUKUS: Why Australia should stay the course
The world is in a difficult stage of its recent history, and the new United States administration’s change of tack is undeniably jarring, Jennifer...
AUKUS: a conspiracy of silence
Australians have never had the chance to properly vote on AUKUS. The major parties haven’t allowed them, Bernard Keane writes in Crickey.
It was foisted...
History of HMAS Melbourne on the way
The long and distinguished history of the Royal Australian Navy’s aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne is about to be published. This 202-page book from the...
China-Iran-Russia naval exercise
On 10 March the People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N) announced that their task group participating in the China-Iran-Russia "Security Belt-2025" naval exercise arrived in the...
Operation Kitay – a story of what might have happened
By Tim Coyle
The military component commanders, senior staff officers, together with a select group of defence civilians and foreign affairs representatives settled into their...
Honouring the legacy of HMAS Perth
The HMAS Perth I Memorial was dedicated on 1 March 2025 by His Excellency the Honourable Chris Dawson AC APM, Governor of Western Australia.
It...