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| UpdatedThe South Australian and Federal Governments are in a funding stoush over a state-owned ship-building hub called Techport.
Topics: navy, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedWhen you think of Canberra, it's unlikely the ocean springs to mind.
Topics: history, navy, jervis-bay-2540, bega-2550, lake-illawarra-2528, nsw, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedAn Italian naval frigate docks in Adelaide in a bid to help its manufacturer secure a multi-billion-dollar federal contract, but Christopher Pyne says there is no clear frontrunner among the designs competing for the work.
Topics: navy, defence-industry, defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, defence-and-aerospace-industries, outer-harbor-5018, port-adelaide-5015, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA former commander of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force says there are serious questions to be answered in relation to the government decision to move the main naval base to a new location well inland.
Topics: defence-forces, navy, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedRepercussions for the Top End from the recent strain on national military ties between Australia and Indonesia are yet to be determined, the Indonesian consul to the Northern Territory says.
Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, army, navy, air-force, government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedChina says it will return an American underwater drone taken by a Chinese naval vessel in the South China Sea, but adds the US did not help by "hyping up" the issue.
Topics: territorial-disputes, navy, world-politics, china, asia
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| UpdatedThe American warship USS Sampson was on its way to Auckland for the 75th anniversary of the New Zealand navy, when the country was rocked by a powerful earthquake earlier this week.
Topics: earthquake, relief-and-aid-organisations, navy, pacific, new-zealand
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| UpdatedHundreds of survivors stranded by a huge earthquake that struck central New Zealand three days ago reach Christchurch on a naval ship, as engineers in the capital, Wellington, assess the state of dozens of damaged buildings amid fresh storms.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, navy, new-zealand, pacific
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A former salvage diver is intent on finding the final resting place of Australia's first submarine, AE1.
Topics: world-war-1, oceans-and-reefs, navy, history, maritime, human-interest, lifestyle-and-leisure, cairns-4870, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedForeign Minister Julie Bishop has confirmed Australia is considering joint patrols with Indonesia in the contested South China Sea.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, foreign-affairs, territorial-disputes, navy, australia, indonesia, china, asia, pacific
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A German U-boat supposedly said by its captain to have been sunk by a giant sea monster at the end of World War I has been discovered off the west coast of Scotland.
Topics: world-war-1, navy, human-interest, offbeat, scotland
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| UpdatedAustralian Navy patrols have seized over 950 kilograms of pure grade heroin on the Indian Ocean — but admit it is only a trickle of the flood that is getting through.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, navy, defence-and-national-security, afghanistan, tanzania-united-republic-of
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government says it wants to split the Adelaide-based shipbuilder ASC into three separate companies: shipbuilding, submarine maintenance and support, and infrastructure.
Topics: navy, defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, industry, business-economics-and-finance, defence-industry, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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Australian warships, planes and soldiers begin annual joint military exercises with four strategic allies in the sensitive South China Sea region, but the Defence Force denies the activity is aimed at sending a message to Beijing.
Topics: army, world-politics, air-force, defence-forces, navy, singapore
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| UpdatedThe ABC goes aboard the HMAS Warramunga and HMAS Glenelg for a look at Exercise Kakadu — the largest Australian Navy exercise.
Topics: navy, darwin-0800
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Australian patrol boat HMAS Gladstone has opened to the public as a museum in the central Queensland city that shares its name.
Topics: navy, history, 20th-century, gladstone-4680, rockhampton-4700
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| UpdatedA 21-year-old woman who went missing in 1997 died after a violent confrontation with a Navy sailor at Broome wharf, the West Australian coroner rules.
Topics: courts-and-trials, missing-person, navy, broome-6725
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Experts say a spike in the number of foreign boats caught fishing illegally in Australian waters could signal an influx of poachers into the region.
Topics: illegal-fishing, immigration, navy, foreign-affairs, water-management, townsville-4810, cairns-4870, darwin-0800, pacific, asia
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The Navy has stood aside Commander Michael Letts as it investigates an on-board complaint by a female officer.
Topics: navy, sexual-offences, australia
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| UpdatedThe Royal Australian Navy stands aside the commander of one of its largest ships, HMAS Success, while it investigates an on-board complaint from a female officer.
Topics: navy, sexual-offences, defence-forces, australia
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A week-long search for two people stranded on an uninhabited Micronesian island ends as they are rescued after writing "SOS" in the sand.
Topics: human-interest, navy, sailing, pacific, united-states
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| UpdatedA US Navy ship fires warning shots after an Iranian fast-attack craft approaches two US ships in the northern Gulf on Wednesday, a US Defense official says.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, defence-and-national-security, defence-forces, navy, united-states, iran-islamic-republic-of
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| UpdatedFour concerned local groups in the Northern Marianas have filed a complaint against the US navy's plans to station thousands of marines in Guam and hold live-fire training on the islands.
Topics: environment, environmental-health, defence-and-national-security, navy, pacific, guam, northern-mariana-islands
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Wollongong artist Bob McRae is one of the few people in Australia allowed to go on board Navy vessels to paint what he sees, but his love for the military and the nature it inhabits runs deep.
Topics: navy, visual-art, wollongong-2500
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| UpdatedAustralian Navy warship HMAS Darwin returns to its home port but the recent death of a crewmate made the journey bittersweet for those on board.
Topics: defence-forces, navy, death, darwin-0800, oman