AUKUS

A top Canberra defence expert has lashed Australia’s multi-billion dollar AUKUS submarine project as amounting to a promise to follow the US into a war against China.The Australian National University’s Hugh White, an emeritus professor of…

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeIn his landmark book Australia’s Defence, which chronicled the nation’s defence policy in the lead-up to the Vietnam War, historian Thomas Millar stressed that “the first point to remember…

But Garrett said the submarine deal, first agreed to by former prime minister Scott Morrison, was “the most costly and risky action ever taken by any Australian government and should not have been allowed to stand”.“At the very least,…

The AUKUS nuclear submarines deal was a very “modest” and “conservative” proposal, says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. “What we’re doing is making sure that we receive first…

China’s “chief ideologue” and most important political theorist is Wang Huning. A high-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee, Wang was instrumental in developing modern China’s ideological…

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has fired back at Paul Keating, accusing his predecessor of diminishing himself by attacking the government’s most senior cabinet ministers and saying he “fundamentally disagreed” with Keating’s relaxed view…

France would have been a better partner than the UK because it has a permanent military presence in the Pacific, he said.“The United Kingdom, on the other hand, has no permanent military or material territorialinterests in this region from…

Malcolm Turnbull has joined the chorus of former prime ministers criticising the government’s $368bn AUKUS deal, saying there are more risks than there are rewards. A day after Paul Keating’s extraordinary spray in which he labelled the…

“The fact is China is not an outrider,” he said. “China is a world-trading state – it is not about upending the international system.”Labor MP Peter Khalil, the chair of the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security, said…

Rabuka is seen by the Australian government as a stabilising force in the region given his role in persuading Kiribati to return to the Pacific Island Forum.Albanese is expected to attend the next annual island forum summit of 18 member…