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| UpdatedThere is "significant anecdotal evidence" of trauma to frontline personnel caused by having to retrieve bodies of asylum seekers killed trying to reach Australia by boat, the Border Force chief tells a Senate estimates hearing.
Topics: depression, defence-and-national-security, mental-health, suicide, refugees, federal-government, australia
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The black box is been credited with saving hundreds of lives, yet little is known about its inventor.
Topics: inventions, science-and-technology, air-and-space, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, defence-and-national-security, defence-industry, australia
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| UpdatedMalcolm Turnbull and Joko Widodo hold formal talks in Sydney, reviving cooperation halted after the discovery of "insulting" posters at a Perth military training base, and reaching deals on trade and a new Australian consulate in east Java.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, foreign-affairs, international-aid-and-trade, world-politics, government-and-politics, australia, indonesia
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| UpdatedIndonesian President Joko Widodo hears first-hand the challenges Australian businesses face in investing in his country during Sydney visit.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, trade, international-aid-and-trade, business-economics-and-finance, foreign-affairs, agreements-and-treaties, defence-and-national-security, indonesia, australia
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| UpdatedDonald Trump's chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports the US President's campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official says.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, defence-and-national-security, world-politics, donald-trump, us-elections, united-states, russian-federation
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to the Crawford Fund's John Anderson about the importance of food security to regional and political stability.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, government-and-politics, defence-and-national-security, australia
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to author Nicole Hemmer about Donald Trump's appointment of Lieutenant General Herbert Raymond McMaster as his new national security adviser.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, government-and-politics, world-politics, united-states
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The federal Attorney-General approves the prosecution launched against protesters who broke into top-secret military base, Pine Gap.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, defence-and-national-security, alice-springs-0870
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Walking away from the United States alliance could force Australia to ramp up defence spending by tens of billions of dollars, Australia's former defence chief Sir Angus Houston says, February 21, 2017.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, donald-trump, foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedWalking away from the United States alliance could force Australia to ramp up defence spending by tens of billions of dollars, Australia's former defence chief says.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, world-politics, security-intelligence, defence-and-national-security, australia, united-states, china
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| UpdatedDonald Trump has selected 54-year-old career officer General HR McMaster to be his new national security adviser. This is what we know about him.
Topics: donald-trump, government-and-politics, defence-and-national-security, united-states
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United States President Donald Trump has appointed Lieutenant General Herbert Raymond McMaster as his new national security adviser.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, us-elections, defence-and-national-security, united-states
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| UpdatedUS Vice President Mike Pence assures the European Union that the Trump administration will develop their cooperation in trade and security and backs the EU as a partner in its own right.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, world-politics, government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, donald-trump, belgium, united-states
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A United States aircraft carrier strike group begins patrols in the South China Sea amid growing tension with Beijing over control of the disputed waterway.
Topics: territorial-disputes, defence-and-national-security, world-politics, foreign-affairs, united-states, china, asia, pacific
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Former Manchester United striker Dwight Yorke maintains he has been refused entry to the United States because of an Iranian stamp in his passport.
Topics: sport, soccer, defence-and-national-security, united-states, trinidad-and-tobago, iran-islamic-republic-of
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| UpdatedMilitary collaborations between the US and Russia are off the table, Defence Secretary James Mattis says, an apparent blow to Donald Trump's suggestions the two nations could fight together against Islamic State.
Topics: foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, world-politics, defence-and-national-security, us-elections, treaties-and-alliances, united-states, russian-federation
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US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis has told NATO allies that they must start increasing defence spending by year-end or the Trump administration will "moderate its commitment" to them.
Topics: world-politics, treaties-and-alliances, defence-and-national-security, united-states, belgium
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| UpdatedRussia's intervention in Syria and Islamic State on the agenda as US Defence Secretary James Mattis arrives in Brussels for NATO talks.
Topics: government-and-politics, security-intelligence, defence-and-national-security, belgium, united-states, australia
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| UpdatedGovernor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove praises the courage of Australia's veterans and prisoners of war during a commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the seminal moment when Singapore fell to the Japanese in 1942.
Topics: world-war-2, history, community-and-society, veterans, defence-and-national-security, government-and-politics, ballarat-3350, vic, australia
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Topics: veterans, defence-and-national-security, ballarat-3350
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Khaled Beydoun of the University of Detroit Mercy Law School about the implications of Michael Flynn's resignation.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, defence-and-national-security, security-intelligence, united-states
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The collective grief of thousands of mothers who lost sons and daughters to war is to be recognised in a new Ballarat memorial to be unveiled on Wednesday, the 75th anniversary of the fall of Singapore.
Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, veterans, world-war-1, world-war-2, history, ballarat-3350, singapore, france
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| UpdatedAustralian Islamic State fighter Khaled Sharrouf, who slipped out of the country in 2013 using his brother's passport, becomes the first dual national to be stripped of citizenship under the Federal Government's anti-terror laws.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, security-intelligence, defence-and-national-security, australia
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The most senior Australian leading the Coalition fight against Islamic State in Iraq has warned the terrorist organisation's ruthless tactics could be replicated by others around the world.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, defence-forces, terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, australia
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to geopolitical risk expert Afshin Molavi on Iran's deteriorating relationship with the US.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, unrest-conflict-and-war, nuclear-issues, iran-islamic-republic-of, united-states