A NAVAL officer who may have brought down the Zero fighter which crash-landed on Melville Island on 19 February 1942 has died in Brisbane. Lieutenant Frederick Sydney Sharp, known as Syd, was stationed at East Point on the Port War Signal Station facility which checked shipping in and out of the harbour, during the first air raid on Darwin. 
Russia warns on Black Sea forces
A senior Russian diplomat warned NATO (June 2016) not to build up its naval forces in the Black Sea, saying such a move would...
Japanese foreign minister’s concern about Chinese naval ships
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida expressed concern Friday about "escalating" moves by Chinese navy ships following repeated entries into Japanese territorial waters, or those nearby,...
18% of the world’s cargo ships are sitting idle
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Maritime strategy and Australia’s future in an Asia-Pacific century
IN NATIONAL security affairs what often marks Australia’s experience is an insular imagination, a feature that is most striking when it comes to understanding the importance of the sea. Despite being an island-continent dependent on seaborne trade for prosperity, Australia has undergone a two-century long adolescence in appreciating the significance of the ocean in strategy, Michael Evans writes.
Navy set as a national enterprise, CN says
The following is the address by the chief go the Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, to the Defence and Industry Conference in Canberra on...
The politics of the two-ocean Navy
< THE Ocean Navy policy of 1987 is arguably the boldest shift in force posture Australia has made since the Second World War. In a rare and exclusive insight into how this came into being, Security analyst Serge DeSilva-Ranasinghe interviewed former Defence Minister Kim Beazley, the policy's chief architect. He went on to discuss why the policy was strategically necessary, the rationale behind the expansion of HMAS Stirling, the challenges of implementation, and the contribution it has made to the future of Australia's national security. The Navy and nation-building: CN speech
Australia's second Prime Minister Alfred Deakin highlighted the importance of the Navy in nation-building which continues today, as the Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Tim Barrett said in a speech to the Order of Australia.
South China Sea news
China says the Philippines is ignoring a maritime talks proposal
China said on 8 June 2016 the Philippines has ignored a proposal for a...
US frigate upgrade ‘not much of an improvement’
The upgraded frigate variant of the Littoral Combat Ship isn’t much of an improvement over the controversial original, the Government Accountability Office says, because...