- June 20th, 2026
Greens senator David Shoebridge has raised doubts over whether China would seek to shut key maritime trade routes with Australia, while warning against what he described as a strategic “warpath with Washington”, as debate intensifies over the future of the...
China’s Long Game in Indo-Pacific Raises New Concerns Over Regional Security and Strategic Influence
China is increasingly being assessed not through the lens of sudden strategic rupture, but through a more incremental and deliberate process of regional repositioning. A growing body of analysis suggests that Beijing is pursuing a long-horizon campaign to reshape the...
A new conceptual layer has emerged in the evolving defence relationship between Australia and Japan: the idea of “strategic depth.” While the term has been formally introduced into bilateral statements, its operational meaning remains only partially articulated. Yet defence analysts...
A quiet change announced at a Singapore security conference has swapped Australia's promised cutting-edge submarine for an older, less capable vessel — and Canberra barely blinked. At a security conference in Singapore over the weekend, the three AUKUS partners —...
Australia’s political opposition has been thrown into fresh turmoil after Sussan Ley, the first woman to lead the Liberal Party, was removed from the party’s top position following a decisive leadership ballot that elevated her long-time rival Angus Taylor. The...
Australian opposition leader Sussan Ley is facing the most serious threat yet to her leadership after shadow defence minister Angus Taylor resigned from the Coalition’s frontbench, a move widely seen as the opening salvo in a long-anticipated challenge. Taylor’s departure...
Boeing’s MQ-28A Ghost Bat uncrewed combat aircraft is edging closer to operational service with its launch customer, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), even as the program prepares to take a major technological leap with the upcoming Block 3 configuration....
Australia’s Qantas Group will fully exit Jetstar Japan in 2026, selling its remaining stake in the low-cost carrier to a consortium of Japanese investors and triggering a complete rebrand, according to a Reuters report. The move will bring to a...
More than four years after the AUKUS security pact was unveiled with fanfare, serious doubts are deepening in Australia over whether its most ambitious promise — nuclear-powered submarines — can ever be delivered as planned. While the United States and...
The absence of any reference to the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) in the United States’ newly released 24-page National Defense Strategy (NDS) on January 23 has reignited debate about the Trump administration’s true commitment to the Indo-Pacific’s most prominent minilateral...
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