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National security issues have been a constant feature of this federal election campaign.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have both committed to stripping a Chinese company, Landbridge, of the lease to operate Darwin Port. Landbridge paid A$506 million for the 99-year lease from the Northern Territory government in October 2015.

Australia faces crisis-level workforce shortfalls in security and defence. Recruiting more people to the defence force is now an urgent matter of national security.

Ben Britton made comments on a fringe right-wing podcast which didn’t align with official Liberal positions.

Ben Britton, who was running as the candidate for Whitlam in NSW, has been removed from the Liberal party’s website

Women’s rights – especially abortion – are truly at risk, says writer and broadcaster Deborah Frances-White

The US Department of State and vice president have made comments on UK law in recent weeks.

Benjamin Britton, standing in the seat of Whitlam, told a rightwing podcast Australia’s education system ‘brainwashed’ students with Marxist ideology, and praised Isle of Man flat tax

Exclusive: Alliance Defending Freedom, which is funding case of activist Livia Tossici-Bolt, is lobbying against buffer zones around clinics

US vice president JD Vance and now the US State Department have drawn attention to legal cases in the UK.

Australia’s defence spending is on the rise. The future defence budget has already been increased to 2.4% of GDP. There is pressure from the new Trump administration in the United States to raise this further to at least 3%.