The Latest Breaking News from AUKUS

Influential UK foreign affairs select committee recommends Japan and South Korea join the security partnership to develop critical technology

As the general election nears, the campaign focus so far has been almost exclusively on domestic issues. And yet, over the past two months, no fewer than five government documents have been released outlining the significant defence and security challenges the country now faces.

Strategy, as the great military thinker Carl von Clausewitz once observed, is the process of effectively applying means to achieve clearly defined ends. But good strategy in global politics has proved easier said than done.

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Anti-radiation and anti-tank missiles among purchase which will be locked in just days after raucous internal debate at Labor conference over Aukus pact

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A long-term Labor government is the ‘difference between laying the foundation and finishing the build’, the PM tells national conference

Labor this week had its first face-to-face national conference in five years, and it all went Anthony Albanese’s way. He won on AUKUS and rallied the party faithful, who did not rock the government’s boat.

Predictably, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese got his way on AUKUS at Labor’s national conference on Friday.

Airport worker assisting border force authorities who seized 52 vials of suspected hazardous waste during a raid at a Sydney home

Heckling, outrage and claims of ‘appeasement’ as stage-managed debate at ALP event gives way to genuine disagreement