David Wroe is national security correspondent for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald in Canberra.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has accused Beijing of "creating an environment of tension and mistrust" after new satellite images showed China appears to have placed weapons on all seven of its artificial islands in the South China Sea.
Hard-headed figures like Admiral Harry Harris should offset concerns that Donald Trump will be too cosy with Russia.
The US will begin flying its deadliest fighter plane, the F-22 Raptor, out of northern Australia next year, the most senior American commander in the Pacific has revealed.
Police called in after the NSW government intervened in the growing scandal.
Former NSW president withdrew more than $200,000 in cash on his RSL credit card and was quietly forced to resign over expenses, rather than health reasons as claimed.
The Turnbull government will review the security clearance of an adviser to crossbench kingmaker Nick Xenophon after revelations he told the media about a massive security breach at the French firm building Australia's new submarines.
It was a stunning disclosure that caused an international furore. And now we know it played out inside a senator's office.
It's easy to think that war fighting is deteriorating into barbarism. The Islamic State's campaign of terror, Boko Haram's sexual violence and use of child bombers, the razing of Aleppo are all playing out in horrific immediacy on social media.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull maintains he is confident a Trump administration will not torpedo a deal for the United States to take refugees from Nauru and Manus Island as American officials prepared to start vetting people in the offshore detention centres.
Donald Trump has earned his reputation for recklessness over many months. But not everyone is convinced his bumpy entry into Asian strategy spells dangerous anarchy in Asia.
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