Australia should revive merchant navy
By Victor Abramowicz*
Australia’s vulnerability to maritime trade disruption is well recognised. International shipping moves some 99 per cent of the nation’s traded goods by...
Navantia wins RAN design contract
Navantia Australia has announced it has won the Designer Support Contract with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Under the contract, Navantia will provide comprehensive...
Singapore Navy: big on size, small on personnel
By Dr Abdul Rahman Yaacob*
Singapore’s defence minister last week announced that two new submarines would be acquired from Germany in addition to the four...
More self-reliance and defence money
By Paul Dibb and Richard Brabin-Smith*
Two recent foreign challenges suggest that Australia needs urgently to increase its level of defence self-reliance and to ensure...
The danger of smaller crews
By Rowan Moffitt*
People are getting carried away with the virtues of small warship crews. We need to remember the great vice of having few...
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,...
Quad navies can help monitor China
By Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan*
Australia should enlist partners in the Quad to help address China’s increasingly assertive naval behaviour in the Indo-Pacific. (The Australian Strategic...
Focus on what we agree on with China
By Edward Chan*
Since taking office in 2022, the Albanese government has stabilised Australia-China relations, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese holding his third formal meeting...
Danger in Diego Garcia transfer
It has been widely reported that, during his meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer last week, President Trump gave his consent to the UK’s...
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...