Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States are considering working with Japan on future AUKUS projects, the three countries have confirmed in news that will “gravely concern” China. Stopping short of announcing a formal expansion of the trilateral partnership, Defence Minister Richard Marles and his AUKUS counterparts said inContinue Reading
Analysis of domestic flight data in the United States puts the performance of Australia’s two largest airlines to shame and reveals passengers are being treated as mugs, experts say. Wednesday was the busiest day ever for air travel in America, with a staggering 51,332 domestic flights taking off and landingContinue Reading
A far-right minister in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has sparked fury after suggesting Israel could nuke Gaza. “That’s one way,” Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said during an interview on Radio Kol Berama on Sunday. The interviewer had asked, “Your expectation is that tomorrow morning we’d drop what amountsContinue Reading
A $7.6 billion contract has been awarded to British military manufacturers to design and develop a new nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarine as part of the AUKUS (Australia-United Kingdom-United States) pact with Australia. The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) has signed a deal for a detailed design study to examine the potentialContinue Reading
China is angry that Australia’s building eight submarines. Meanwhile it’s busily expanding its own fleet to 70. It’s part of what Chairman Xi Jinping this week declared will be a “Great Wall of Steel”. And neighbouring countries are increasingly worried they’ll get trapped behind it. In the first speech ofContinue Reading
China will be briefed on Australia’s multibillion-dollar plan to acquire nuclear-powered submarines despite accusing the AUKUS partners of going down a “path of error and danger”. In recent days, more than 60 nations have taken up a briefing by the federal government as ministers and bureaucrats seek to allay nuclearContinue Reading
Australia will spend up to $368 billion to deliver the historic AUKUS deal, which will culminate in home-made nuclear submarines by the 2040s. The biggest industrial undertaking in the history of the country will be announced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in San Diego alongside British Prime Minister Rishi SunakContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese has hit back after China ramped up its attack on AUKUS and accused the countries involved in the trilateral security agreement of stirring up an arms race. The Prime Minister defended the government’s plan to acquire nuclear submarines under the agreement as he spoke to reporters in NewContinue Reading
The West risks using up its entire stockpile of long-range precision missiles within a week should war breaking out over Taiwan. So what happens next? The Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has released a report based on a series of simulations analysing the implications of a potential conflictContinue Reading
In a typically bitter speech in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the country would be suspending its participation in the last remaining treaty which limits the size of its nuclear weapons arsenal. Putin also said Russia could restart testing nuclear weapons – but only if the US did theContinue Reading