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Increased spending is just another way of throwing up our hands, refusing to deal with the present and showing our inability to deal with the future

Dutton commits to redo security checks for Gazan refugees and doubles down on antisemitism questions in citizenship tests

Just as voting has begun in this year’s federal election, the Coalition has released its long-awaited defence policy platform. The main focus, as expected, is a boost in defence spending to 3% of Australia’s GDP within the next decade.

Coalition leader says he will subject Palestinians from Gaza on visitor visas to more scrutiny, echoing claims – without evidence – they are a national security risk

Opposition leader insists costings will be released prior to the election as Andrew Hastie says ‘America-first’ US means Australia’s defence must be prioritised

Pundits and political scientists like to repeat that we live in an age of political polarisation. But if you sat through the second debate between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition leader Peter Dutton last Wednesday night, you’d be forgiven for asking what polarisation people are talking about.

"Prime Minister, you couldn't lie straight in bed," Dutton said in what felt like a Real Housewives episode.

Election talk is inevitably focused on Labor and the Coalition because they are the parties that customarily form government.

Seven Regions Nuclear Free alliance launches campaign representing groups who oppose Dutton’s proposed nuclear power reactors in their communities across Queensland, NSW, SA, Victoria and WA

Labor’s Richard Marles says announcement is a ‘pathetic whimper’ rather than a defence policy

As I begin this review sitting in a Canberra cafe, there are two blokes on the next table complaining about the present federal election campaign’s lack of substance. The complaints of one of them about the Coalition’s fuel excise cut were the first to catch my ear, but it was…