US President Donald Trump’s chief foreign affairs adviser has reassured Australia there are “no plans” to scrap the AUKUS ...

Public pledges from the Asia-Pacific allies unlikely, observers say, with efforts to pressure them seen as signs of 'weakening' confidence The United States is unlikely to secure public pledges from ...

The White House has turned up the heat on Australia, calling on its close Indo-Pacific ally to increase military spending as regional threats mount and global security dynamics shift dramatically ...

Former home affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo has said Australia may be forced to lift its defence spending, depending on the ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has taken a thinly veiled shot at Australia, saying if European countries can agree to hike defence spending, then US allies in the Indo Pacific ”can ...

Eldridge Colby has pushed for significant changes to the AUKUS deal-sparking uproar among senior officials across the White ...

which involves selling nuclear-powered submarines to Australia, is in line with President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda. But many officials at the State Department, the White House-based ...

The administration has already asked Australia to lift defence spending to 3.5 per cent from a projected 2.33 per cent by 2033, something the government says it is assessing. But the NATO decision ...