In 2007, I was invited by the United Nations to address a regional conference on multilateral cooperation in Pacific Rim ocean governance. The conference was hosted by th ..
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Commentary on equipping the Australian Defence Force tends to focus on high-end combat capabilities such as frigates, fighter aircraft and armoured vehicles. Much less is ..
Australia’s strategic circumstances over the next few decades will mean we cannot afford to be without a submarine capability. But that’s an area in which we are terr ..
The Australian government and the Australia subsidiary of US-based underwater technology firm Phoenix International have both agreed to terminate an existing contract for ..
In the first part of this series, we saw that by late 2015, before Australia’s Defence Department had received industry responses in the competitive evaluation proc ..
The latest salvo in Australia’s national debate about how best to spread the risks and benefits of the AU$300 billion (US$200 billion) naval shipbuilding plan is wh ..
There’s a common rule of thumb in militaries known as “the rule of threes”: for every three platforms you have, you can deploy one. This is how the Australi ..
There have been claims in the media and by various commentators that the cost of Australia’s future submarine program has gone up. The Defence Department insists that i ..
Three years ago, I wrote that the Australian shipping industry was at the crossroads of existence. It’s now hanging by a thread. We have been continually losing ships a ..
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