Posted
| UpdatedAustralia's latest multi-billion-dollar defence spend is put on display for the first time, with the arrival of the EA-18G Growler attack aircraft marking the country's first entry into electronic warfare.
Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, defence-industry, geelong-3220
Posted
After years of delays and cost blow-outs, the controversial Joint Strike Fighter has arrived on Australian soil for the first time.
Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, defence-forces, air-force, defence-industry, federal-government, amberley-4306, australia
Posted
| UpdatedAfter years of delays and cost blow-outs, the controversial Joint Strike Fighter arrives on Australian soil for the first time.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, defence-forces, defence-industry, federal-government, amberley-4306, australia
Posted
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
Posted
| UpdatedA leading WA shipbuilder says highly capable maritime manufacturers in Western Australia are being overlooked for major Defence work, partly blaming the Barnett Government.
Topics: political-parties, elections, defence-industry, henderson-6166
Posted
| UpdatedAustralia's future submarine and naval ship building projects are at risk because of the unreliability of energy supply in South Australia, Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne warns.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, defence-and-national-security, defence-industry, sa
Posted
| UpdatedThe Federal Government has abandoned plans to compulsorily acquire farmland in Queensland which was to be used for joint training exercises with Singapore's military. The Defence Minister, Marise Payne, and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce spoke to the Queensland Country Hour about the reason they have overturned the forced land buyout of prime grazing country in Marlborough, north of Rockhampton, and inland of Townsville; AgForce and affected landholders say they are 'over the moon' about the decision.
Topics: beef-cattle, defence-industry, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000, rockhampton-4700, townsville-4810
Posted
| UpdatedRoyal Australian Air Force pilots will soon fly two Joint Strike Fighter aircrafts to Australia as the controversial F-35 program continues to face scrutiny for technical problems and cost blowouts.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, defence-industry, government-and-politics, australia, united-states
Posted
PNG's Prime Minister suspends two senior ministers and establishes a commission of inquiry into a $31 million corruption scandal over the relocation of Port Moresby’s naval base.
Topics: corruption, defence-forces, defence-industry, papua-new-guinea, pacific, asia
Posted
| 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
Posted
Adelaide will host several international shipbuilders in coming weeks ahead of a major increase in local defence construction that will start next year.
Topics: defence-industry, defence-and-national-security, defence-and-aerospace-industries, osborne-5017, sa, australia
Posted
| UpdatedCombat and communication systems on Australia's first Air Warfare Destroyer ship, HMAS Hobart, are being tested at sea this week — marking one of the final stages of construction before it is handed over to the Navy.
Topics: defence-industry, defence-and-national-security, defence-and-aerospace-industries, business-economics-and-finance, osborne-5017, sa, australia
Posted
| UpdatedFurther job cuts at Adelaide-based shipbuilder ASC are breaking people's hearts and a result of poor Federal Government shipbuilding policy, South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon says.
Topics: defence-industry, federal-government, government-and-politics, defence-and-aerospace-industries, defence-and-national-security, osborne-5017, adelaide-5000, sa
Posted
| UpdatedWestern Australia's Environment Minister is unable to confirm whether it is safe to swim or fish in Cockburn Sound due to potential contamination from toxic firefighting chemicals used on the HMAS Stirling naval base.
Topics: environmental-impact, environmental-management, defence-industry, government-and-politics, community-and-society, environmental-health, garden-island-6168, perth-6000, wa
Posted
| UpdatedAustralia has expressed concern over reports by a US think tank that China has developed 'weapons systems' on its artificial islands.
Topics: defence-industry, world-politics, china
Posted
| UpdatedThe French company building Australia's new submarines says it was not aware of a major security breach until it was "published in the newspapers", as Christopher Pyne accuses a staffer of Nick Xenophon of being behind the leaks.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, defence-and-aerospace-industries, defence-industry, federal-government, australia
Posted
| UpdatedShares of Lockheed Martin, the US fighter plane manufacturer, fall by nearly $2 billion after President-elect Donald Trump tweets that the cost of production for its F-35 fighter plane project is "out of control".
Topics: government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, defence-industry, defence-and-aerospace-industries, us-elections, markets, united-states
Posted
| UpdatedThe waters of Cockburn Sound south of Perth are being tested for potential contamination by toxic firefighting chemicals used at the HMAS Stirling navy base last decade.
Topics: environmental-impact, environmental-management, defence-forces, defence-industry, government-and-politics, community-and-society, environmental-health, garden-island-6168, perth-6000, wa
Posted
HMAS Tobruk is to be scuttled off the coast between Bundaberg and Hervey Bay as a dive site and tourist attraction.
Topics: defence-forces, defence-industry, rural-tourism, travel-and-tourism, tourism, bundaberg-4670, hervey-bay-4655
Posted
| UpdatedHundreds of ASC workers are holding a two-day strike in South Australia following stalled negotiations over an enterprise bargaining agreement, and focusing their protest on Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne.
Topics: defence-industry, federal-government, government-and-politics, defence-and-aerospace-industries, adelaide-5000, port-adelaide-5015, sa
Posted
Defence experts are indicating Gippsland could become a significant player in the Australian Defence Force's supply chain.
Topics: defence-industry, defence-forces, manufacturing, morwell-3840
Posted
The Government follows the lead of the United States and United Kingdom, announcing a new initiative designed to ease the way for veterans into skilled employment in the private sector.
Topics: government-and-politics, defence-forces, defence-industry, veterans, australia
Posted
| UpdatedA resident of a Darling Downs town affected by a defence contamination says he will lose his house because of the scandal, as the Department of Defence releases another report into the matter.
Topics: defence-forces, defence-industry, defence-and-national-security, fires, community-and-society, health, diseases-and-disorders, food-poisoning, oakey-4401, qld
Posted
Mackay Veterans Support Group volunteer George Newton discussing the need to talk about culture shock, with the ABC's Harriet Tatham
Topics: veterans, mental-health, defence-forces, defence-industry, mackay-4740
Posted
Topics: defence-forces, defence-industry, volunteers, mackay-4740