by ROGER CROOK – OVER the past 40 or 50 years successive Australian governments have abandoned defence planning and have been lured away from national security and self-sufficiency. Free trade agreements on trinkets, beads and bargains made by others, including the Middle…
by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIANS are tired after two slow years of pandemic recovery and a rapid escalation in rents, mortgages, the cost of food, diesel, petrol, electricity and gas. Cost of living, for many, has become an extraordinary challenge and seemingly…
by ROGER CROOK – THERE are ever increasing concerns around the world that the conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas could escalate across the Middle East – and beyond. With China rattling the sabre over Taiwan; Russia seemingly pushing and maybe…
by KEVIN ANDREWS – IMAGINE the outcry from the Chinese if an Australian naval vessel set off its sonar system at People’s Liberation Army divers, while disentangling fishing nets from their propeller while stuck in another country’s economic zone. There would be…
by DAVID FLINT – THE saying “The only thing we learn from history is that men never learn from history” may be dismissed as a sweeping generalisation. But as the formidable general Sir John Glubb – Glubb Pashah – remarked, it is…
AUSTRALIA is rapidly accelerating its procurement of new defence equipment and technology amid a globally deteriorating strategic environment. Defence Industry Minister Melissa Price has spearheaded the changes, which will involve slashing swathes of red tape that previously protracted procurement negotiations by years. …
JIM Molan is a living example of the quality of those great statesmen we once had in Australia. A distinguished general who held a series of commands, including the 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment and the Australian Defence College, he served in…
