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Newcastle could be at the epicentre of one of the biggest strategic defence projects in Australia, potentially creating jobs and injecting millions of dollars into the region.

A group of 11 Islamist militants based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were killed in clashes with Ugandan forces overnight during a cross-border raid, Uganda's army said on Tuesday.

Eight people were added to the sanctions list, including rebels, a politician, an army member and a foreign businessman.

Australian Security Leaders Climate Group says measures needed to contain climate change will be disruptive, but better than ‘existential threat’ of the alternative

Deciding how Australia goes to war is being reviewed, with the Defence Department issuing a dire warning on what could happen if changes are made.

It has acquired Location One a leading service and equipment hire company in the TV and film sector

I was invited to participate in a Hofstra Law Review symposium on free speech in law schools, which will be happening in February, and I thought I'd serialize my current draft article; there's still plenty of time to improve it, so I'd love to hear people's comments. Here are some…

Gen Angus Campbell declares Australia and Japan are bound together by ‘increasingly shared strategic challenges’

"Consider that—as reported in the local paper—several students were so distraught over this event and afraid for their 'physical and emotional safety' that they claimed they could not even be inside Green Hall at the same time as the speaker. Perhaps this should alert us to an institutional failure to…

Australian Defence Forces yet to investigate if training was trigger for deaths of soldiers

Soldiers who agreed to strip naked as part of specialist capture, torture and interrogation training course are among those who died by suicide.