A former member of the United States Navy’s top brass says he hopes Australia would send its nuclear powered submarines to support America if there is a war over Taiwan. Ex-US Navy secretary Richard Spencer addressed the National Press Club in Canberra on Monday nearly a week after Anthony AlbaneseContinue Reading
The 116 new fossil fuel projects in the pipeline would pollute the atmosphere with 4.8 billion tonnes of carbon emissions by 2030 if they all came to fruition, according to a new report. Canberra think-tank the Australia Institute says the combined impact of the dozens of new coal, oil andContinue Reading
The ABC’s political editor has slammed Paul Keating over the former PM’s attacks on several journalists during last week’s fiery National Press Club speech. On Wednesday, Mr Keating blasted some of the nation’s most senior journalists as well as Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong following the multibillion-dollar nuclear submarine dealContinue Reading
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 strategic studies, unleashed a quite extraordinary criticism of Australia’s nuclear submarine plan inContinue Reading
South Australia and its “transformative” shipbuilding industry under the AUKUS security pact will be central to the nation’s diplomatic mission of countering China’s rising belligerence in our region, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has declared. The South Australian senator says a lot is riding on her home state’s ability toContinue Reading
Australians will know within the next fortnight what question they will be asked at the Voice to Parliament referendum later this year. While the referendum working group has yet to decide the final wording, Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney confirmed the constitution alteration bill – which will feature the intendedContinue Reading
La Nina has left the building – and its absence is already being felt as temperatures rise. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is warning the next three months will see below-average rain while it’s also “very likely” to be hotter than usual across much of Australia. And with a possibleContinue Reading
The government has been urged to make public advice from the solicitor general that warned a key referendum group to the Voice to parliament over its wording. Shadow Attorney-General Julian Leeser said on Sunday that “at a quarter to midnight” it had emerged the solicitor general told the Referendum WorkingContinue Reading
Less than 24 hours after a major building company closed up its website and abandoned construction sites, it has called in administrators. On Tuesday afternoon, PBS Building, a multimillion-dollar firm which does a mix of commercial and residential projects across Queensland, NSW and the ACT, officially collapsed. Jonathon Colbran, RichardContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese has finally confirmed politics’ worst kept secret: he’ll be meeting with both Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak next week ahead of an expected nuclear submarine announcement. The Prime Minister on Wednesday revealed he would travel to the US for bilateral talks with the President next week following hisContinue Reading