Australia’s closest allies are boosting their defence budgets, but Canberra is bucking the trend despite warnings about a ...

Iran’s local ambassador has urged Australia to support diplomacy, warning a US intervention could threaten shipping and ...

The Prime Minister was similarly guarded last week when asked at the National Press Club in Canberra ... Australia's coastline in an unprecedented move that most defence analysts interpreted ...

A Security and Defence Pact (SPD) - like the one the EU signed with the UK last month - is one of the likely deliverables of ...

In his book On War, Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz wrote: “War is a mere continuation of policy by other means.” And, ...

Anthony Albanese says Australia will “continue to play an important role in the Pacific” but has stopped short of committing ...

The Defence Minister will fly into a raging debate on military funding at the June 24-25 summit in The Netherlands, after his ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will tell Donald Trump that Australia is doing its part on defence spending, as he prepares ...

But Tokyo scrapped the meeting after the US asked Japan to boost defence spending to 3.5 per cent, higher than its earlier ...

Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s hardening of rhetoric against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program could help ease tensions ...

Australia's closest ally is giving a spirited impression of behaving like a cantankerous bear ahead of G7 summit in Canada.