The Australian government earlier this week released its plans for the Henderson Defence Precinct in Western Australia.
Last September, the government announced a $12 billion downpayment on the facility that will include naval shipyards and AUKUS-related programs, with an estimated total cost of around $25 billion over the next decade.

The decision by the Trump administration to reduce US involvement with ROK counterparts in annual military exercises is best viewed in the context of recent high-level diplomatic statements issued by Washington. They reveal a great deal: President Trump has shown a lack of diplomatic expertise, exposing the White House to other considerations which include continual dysfunctional behaviour, questionable competence and also possible connivance in a sensitive and controversial area of ...

US imperialism continues to discuss its plans for warfare in Space.  It proceeds from the assumption that “the future warfighting environment is expanding”, and that the potential for conflict comes “from China’s plans for exploring and exploiting the moon.” 
These are direct quotations from a document released in early August by the US SPACECOM.

The US Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy, Eldridge Colby, yesterday held a virtual media briefing whilst on a visit to the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia.

I have been reading Weevils In The Flour by Wendy Löwenstein.  The book is an oral record of Australian people of various backgrounds and occupations during the Great Depression of the 1930s

Diplomatic tensions between key Pacific islands and the Trump administration over the role of US mining companies seeking to exploit mineral rich deposits look set to escalate. The position taken by the Trump administration has cast further light upon the dysfunctional nature of their foreign policy.

With China and the US locked in a race to be the first to establish a manned base on the Southern Pole of the Moon, the US is making no secret of its plans to establish its space supremacy by military means.

An article in the Guardian’s online edition back in April revealed the blatant corruption of a U.S. official by the name of Emil Michael. 

Michael ‘is the Pentagon’s under-secretary for research and engineering under the Trump administration oversees negotiations with AI companies and has been pushing the defense department to rapidly increase the widespread use of AI’ ( Guardian 10 April, 2026).

SA Premier Malinauskas has just announced a Royal Commission into artificial Intelligence (AI). The announcement followed his return from a trip to the US where he met with US politicians, Department of War personnel and AI industry leaders. 
The visit to the US was as much about the AUKUS arrangements as it was about AI, but there will be no SA Royal Commission into AUKUS, just as there has been ...

On 16 July the Trump administration hosted a diplomatic forum attended by 66 countries, including Australia. (1) To what extent the official Australian diplomatic presence was linked directly to the US military footprint in Australia, was not specified in forum publications. (2) The so-called 'alliance', nevertheless, remains a major factor.

The Public Inquiry into AUKUS, convened by concerned Australians following the government’s refusal to hold a parliamentary inquiry, has so far received close to 600 submissions, the overwhelming majority of which refute the need for Australia to spend $368 billion to acquire 8 nuclear-powered submarines. 

A proposed new Agreement governing the deployment of NATO personnel to Australia to facilitate the procurement of NATO goods and services is setting a dangerous new precedent for the surrender of Australian sovereignty.

Revelations that the Netanyahu government has allocated hundreds of millions of dollars together with a US$45 million lobbying contract to 'improve its image around the world', has carried the hallmarks of an administration failing to maintain adequate diplomatic initiatives with counterparts elsewhere. (1) The Israeli State already has an elaborate propaganda machine; the strength of the world-wide Palestinian lobby, however, has left the Israeli government in a vulnerable position in ...

One of the arts of leadership is to set an example of behaviours appropriate to one’s policies and objectives. The recent ALP National Conference had the abysmal triumvirate doing just that.

Approximately 150 people rallied outside the ALP National Conference at the Adelaide Convention Centre this morning.
It was a work day, so many of the participants were retirees with varying degrees of hirsute grey. Fearing their revolutionary intentions, the police had their own greys in attendance – a phalanx of horses known in SA as the “police greys”.

Under the title “Women Confront Imperialism,” the initiative for a women’s coordination, launched at the Second ICOR Women’s Conference in Nepal, brought together younger and older women as well as representatives of various political organizations from different countries.

Led by traditional owners of the land on which the US military base Pine Gap is located, hundreds of anti-war activists have converged on the base and demanded its closure.

The present furore by the Australian Liberal Party about criticisms of its founder, Robert Menzies, carries the hallmarks of those who continue to follow, without question, the basic legacy of a figure portrayed more in line with lower-level, chalk-and-talk, secondary school-type history lessons than with the historical reality. Their seeming inability to comprehend matters arising has been conveniently used to shield them from questionable diplomatic initiatives by Menzies and his ...

Political disagreements about the role of Robert Menzies, who became an important leader of the Australian Liberal Party, reveal far more than what can be observed at face value.