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Australia is not expected to return to surplus anytime within the next four years as commodity prices are level off from their recent highs, Jim Chalmers says.

While the Labor Party accuses the previous government of flushing money "down the toilet," defense analysts say there's more politics than substance to the outrage.

Proposal to fast-track submarines by having them produced by US ‘would not be acceptable’, Peter Malinauskas says

As the AUKUS trilateral security partnership between Australia, Britain and the United States marked its first anniversary this week, Australian defense officials have stressed that the "optimal pathway" to acquiring nuclear-powered submarines under the pact is taking shape.

Fresh questions have emerged over the availability of the ageing Collins class submarine fleet after one boat broke down in Hawaii recently.

Australia must develop its own long-range missiles to meet rising challenges to regional security, opposition defence spokesman Andrew Hastie has said, as tensions across the Taiwan Strait continue unfolding.Mr Hastie said on Sunday that Australia had to develop greater deterrents to challenges, such as from a rising China with “expansionist ambiti

Advanced Western weapons are giving Ukraine added firepower to push back Russian attacks, a defence expert ...

Latest report to US Congress reveals the superpower will struggle to meet its own submarine-building targets for decades

US congressional report warns that building the most up-to-date nuclear submarines could be billions more than the current cost of acquiring boats.

In a fresh procurement headache, defence companies have been told to resubmit bids based on Australia buying 300 vehicles rather than 450 under the $27 billion project.