Australia’s nuclear-powered, conventionally armed submarines will be of a new British design, but their reactors, combat systems and heavyweight torpedoes will all be American. After 18 months of intense consultations, details of this massive joint …
More than two centuries ago, one of America’s founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, famously said: ‘An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.’ At that time, he was talking about the need for more universal education …
Australia needs to have a more honest conversation, with itself and its main ally, about the b-word. As a straight-talking country that prides itself on its closeness to the United States, Australia finds it curiously …
On 4 January, Chinese President Xi Jinping clasped hands with his Philippine counterpart under very different circumstances from the last time he welcomed a Philippine leader to Beijing. During that September 2019 visit, which Xi …
In 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy saw considerable value in Milne Bay as a maritime and aviation base from which to attack northern Australia. Milne Bay is noted for the ‘Turning Point’ battle, the title …