Angus Houston

Top-secret war-gaming exercises conducted for the Albanese’s government’s defence review concluded Australia would be “f***ed” if China established a military base in a nearby Pacific nation such as the Solomon Islands, according to a…

Beijing has returned fire after Australia unveiled plans to overhaul its armed forces, accusing its southern neighbour of hyping up a “China threat” as an excuse to expand its military.In its first response after the federal government…

Australia’s defence force is not fit for purpose to respond to the threat of military force or coercion, a major review into the nation’s capabilities has found.The government has accepted, or accepted in principle, all of the…

Crossbench senator Jacqui Lambie has declared she’d have to quit parliament and “pick up a weapon” if a war broke out, because of a shortfall of Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel.The ex-soldier turned firebrand Tasmanian independent…

The most significant review of Australia’s defence force and capabilities in decades has laid bare a significant budget struggle, with suggestions multi-billion dollar programs may need to be wound back and others scrapped. The Defence…

Australia’s chief of defence has sounded the alarm after classified US Defence Department documents about the war in Ukraine surfaced online. The documents, labelled secret and top secret, first appeared on social media last month and…

Suggestions that Australia could be at war with China within three years have been shot down by the government. National security experts made the alarming claim in a report commissioned by the Nine Newspapers. The panel warned that…