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The largest-ever war fighting drills in Australia, Exercise Talisman Sabre, is underway and expected to attract the attention of Chinese spy ships. Talisman Sabre began in 2005 as a biennial ...
A launch ceremony for the Talisman Sabre exercise took place aboard the HMAS Adelaide at Garden Island in Sydney.
Four Frenchmen arrived on Australia's Norfolk Island in the middle of winter claiming to be on a diving and pleasure cruise.
News release July 2, 2025 – Ottawa – National Defence / Canadian Armed Forces Exercise TRIDENT FURY 2025 (Ex TF25) concluded yesterday following two weeks of multinational training activities ...
Norfolk Island Regional Council acting general manager Philip Reid said asbestos is not being buried as part of the council's waste management operations. Reid said construction and demolition waste ...
Norway's Kongsberg Gruppen and France's Thales said on Friday they would establish a joint venture in Norway combining their defence communications businesses.
Armed Forces Brewing Company, submerged in debt, may have left Norfolk, but it hasn’t gone away. The controversial military-tribute brewery’s former Norfolk facility is for sale for $5.45 million, ...
‘We’re having to reconsider Australia as a homeland from which we will conduct combat operations’, the chief of the defence force, Admiral David Johnston, surprised some listeners by saying at ASPI’s ...
The Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) ability to operate effectively in contested and congested environments increasingly depends on resilient, adaptable technologies and capabilities.
Australians should expect more Chinese naval flotillas to enter our waters, says Defence Force chief David Johnston, issuing a veiled warning against more unannounced live fire exercises.