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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, the Secretary for National Defense Delfin Lorenzana and a delegation of senior government and military officials visited HMAS Adelaide (Oct 2017) as Australia continues to work closely with the Government of the Philippines to counter the threat of terrorism in the region.

Will Taylor responds to the article by "Sir Humphrey" The Royal Marine Corps. What is it good for?

By Greg Colton* One-third of the Royal Australian Navy’s surface combatant force is committed to the wrong part of the world, at least according to James Goldrick and Andrew Shearer in an opinion piece in The Australian (Oct 2017). They argue there is a shift in the balance of power in the Asia Pacific (for which, read an increasingly confident and capable Chinese navy), and that Australia can ‘can no longer take a free and open region for granted’.

The Naval Studies Group at the University of New South Wales (Canberra) in partnership with the Australian Naval Institute, the RAN Seapower Centre, Naval...

The Royal Australian Navy has drawn the Sea Power Conference to a close after three intense days of presentations, bilateral meetings, industry engagements and...

By Ambassador Dr Tobias Feakin* The Australian government has launched an ambitious cyber affairs strategy, seeking to take a leading role in building a free,...

By Pete Barker* In July, two major announcements were made renewing the Royal Navy’s commitment to the principle of freedom of navigation in the coming years. Firstly, the Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Fallon, told Reuters that Britain was intending to send a warship to the South China Sea in 2018. The Defence Secretary explicitly stated that, “we have the right of freedom of navigation and we will exercise it.”

The Minister for Defence, Marise Payne, and the Minister for Defence Industry, Christopher Pyne, announced (Oct 2017) two projects to sustain the capability superiority of the Collins submarine fleet until its replacement by the future submarine.

The Minister for Defence Industry, Christopher Pyne, announced (Oct 2017) world leading Australian company CEA Technologies had won a contract to upgrade the capabilities...

The Royal Australian Navy will use an innovative new data analytics system to improve fleet efficiency and capability as part of a new collaboration...