Commentary After years of delays, cost blowouts, and subsequent crisis meetings with France’s Naval Group this September, Australia finally cancelled the disastrous program and instead opted for a U.S. or UK nuclear-powered submarine design to ensure national security was not further compromised. To use Australian parlance, that’s when French President Emmanuel Macron chucked the mother…

French authorities, although upset at being kept in the dark around AUKUS, shouldn’t be surprised at Australia’s decision to cancel the troubled A$90 billion (US$65 billion) Future Submarines Program—according to a defence expert, who now says it’s time for governments to move forward. Greg Copley, president of the International Strategic Studies Association, said that the…

Beijing’s trade war against Australia has been a “failure” that could serve as a lesson to the Chinese leadership, according to former Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who noted that the key to dealing with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was to stand firm on your values. Turnbull, along with the Labor Party’s former Prime…

Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has claimed News Corp’s role in Australian politics is too powerful, and the media giant must be held to account while speaking at the federal Senate inquiry into media diversity in Australia on April 12. Turnbull, who was recently dropped as the head of the New South Wales (NSW)…