'Australia must build a missile defence shield'
Missile defence system needed as threat of a strike grows: former national security adviser.
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David Wroe
David Wroe is the defence and national security correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House
Shipbuilder cuts first steel in promised rebirth of naval industry
It's one small step for an Australian shipbuilder, but a giant leap for the country's plans for a major defence industry.
Australian troops in Iraq, Afghanistan for long term: PM
Prime Minister flags an Australian military presence in the two countries for the foreseeable future.
From Shanghai to Sydney to Baghdad: Captain Feng's own Anzac journey
Yikang Feng was raised in Shanghai. His grandmother was on Mao Zedong's Long March, the famous military retreat by the communists that saved them from the ruling nationalists' army.
On Anzac Day, Christopher Pyne remembers the great-uncle who never got the chance to live
Private Patrick Thomas Pyne was among the 4000 Australians who landed at Anzac Cove as part of the covering force on April 25, 1915.
North Korea is spraying Australia for speaking up, not because it's a logical target
It mightn't seem obvious at first but there's a positive interpretation to North Korea's threatening Australia: it shows they're paying attention and they're feeling pressure.
'Steady hand' Pence offers insight into Trump's thinking
Call him the Trump administration's enigma machine, the steady hand who decodes the still bewildering array of signals coming out of the White House. Or call him the good cop.
Xenophon warns China could sink Australian navy ships to warn US
Powerful crossbench Senator Nick Xenophon has warned China could sink an Australian naval ship to send a message to the United States if tensions escalate in the South China Sea.
North Korea will not 'willingly' give up its nukes, Bishop warns
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un will not "willingly giving up his nuclear program" without a significant intervention from the rogue regime's powerful ally China.
Climate change curbs must be central to foreign policy, Australia told
Turnbull government warned that containing the effects of climate change must form a central pillar of Australia's new foreign policy.
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