AUKUS and Indo-Pacific security: Experts discuss progress, challenges at Raisina Dialogue 2025
At Firstpost’s IdeasPod during the Raisina Dialogue 2025, experts highlighted AUKUS’s two pillars—nuclear-powered submarines for Australia and advanced capabilities like AI and quantum computing. The ...
Australia Lacks A Good Plan B If Trump Scraps AUKUS
Following the recent imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs , the Australian government is coming to terms with the reality ...
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles shoots down Malcom Turnbull’s criticism of AUKUS, calls it ‘a good deal’
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has shot down suggestions that AUKUS is a ‘really bad deal’ that is in trouble after the ...
Australia’s allies must step up in the Indo-Pacific
Readers’ letters on dealing with Donald Trump’s isolationism, looking to Congress for tariff relief, Rio’s clean energy move, ...
It’s the exact wrong time to cut Charles from the currency
Readers ask whether Australia should be weakening its ties with Britain at a time when our US relations are under threat, and ...
Tense moment former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull snaps back at The Project star in VERY awkward exchange: 'Shut up'
Former Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has had a fiery exchange with one of the hosts of Channel 10's The Project on Monday night. Mr Turnbull was invited on to discuss the ongoing saga of the ...
US starts to build submarine presence on strategic Australian coast under AUKUS
A Chinese navy task group that circumnavigated Australia in February and March highlighted China's ambition to operate more frequently in the same neighborhood, Australian officials said.
Coalition weighs spending billions more on defence
A Dutton government may boost the military’s funding to 2.5 per cent of GDP, as US president Donald Trump demands allies spend more on defence.
WA news LIVE: Cook unveils new-look cabinet; Penny Wong tells Perth crowd ‘Dutton hasn’t done the work’
In Victoria, the latest Building Bad instalment reveals companies working on Labor’s Big Build projects have been pressured ...
Pearls and Irritations20h
ANZUS and NATO are kaput and Trump doesn’t care
Albanese and Dutton have proven too gutless, so far, to speak frankly to Australians about the implications of the imposition ...
Trump is surveying Australian academics about gender diversity and China – what does this mean for unis and their research?
Trump’s executive orders are currently the subject of numerous lawsuits in the US. Plaintiffs say Trump’s orders violate the First and Fifth Amendments – those dealing with protection of free speech, ...
Australia's Missile Wish Dogged By China Deterrence Doubts
Australia is ramping up plans to bolster its missile arsenal after China's recent naval operations near major Australian ...