Royal Australian Navy Collins class submarine inbound Pearl Harbor - September 2, 2022. #RoyalAustralianNavy #collinsclass
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“The ABC has learnt officials have begun preparing for a visit scheduled to occur after Mr Macron and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese join world leaders at the G20 summit in Bali” - story with
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Noteworthy comments from UK Defence Secretary on Australia’s future nuclear submarine: "may look like something none of us have in our stocks”
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A resident in Canberra’s Weston Creek area has become well known to locals for regularly displaying different flags of the world in his front yard, coinciding with various National Days… Recently he’s decided to stick with flying just one flag 🇺🇦
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“Welcome to the main non-event, where 142 painstakingly selected rent-seekers will huff and puff and … rubber-stamp the government’s pre-ordained policy path. Someone change the channel already” - vintage
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#BREAKING: UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet's office calls China's treatment of the Uyghur minority as constituting "serious human rights violations" in a report issued just minutes before the end of her tenure.
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Last month UK’s visiting Defence Chief revealed “Australian submariners are coming to Europe to experience a nuclear submarine and how we go about that, our capabilities and our tactics in the North Atlantic”. Today it’s announced by visiting Aussie MINDEF
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US RADM on AUKUS: "If we were going to add additional submarine construction to our industrial base, that would be detrimental to us right now, without significant investment to provide additional capacity... I think that exists for both the US and the UK"
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Defence has confirmed the Australian Army’s fleet of CH-47F Chinooks have not been grounded, a spokesperson telling the ABC a review of the US grounding has revealed its fleet is "not impacted by the issue"
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"There were discussions of a treaty going forward between our countries to ensure we are all on the same page when it comes to security in the region” - big development out of Papua New Guinea (via and )
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"If we don't upgrade the M113 and replace it with a newer system which is the infantry fighting vehicle — we're condemning the infantry to fighting potential wars in the 21st century with 20th-century capability” - fierce debate inside military circles
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Trying to imagine the response from ’s Ministerial and Executive Coordination and Communication Division if CASG had suggested a video like this when HMAS Adelaide broke down in Tonga earlier this year…
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.@smrmoorhouse statement from @HMSPWLS
Confirms issue with starboard shaft "may require repairs that will impact the ship’s programme" but investigations are still ongoing.
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China claims US plane violated its sovereignty by entering its 'territorial airspace' taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4641205
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The 's #USSAntietam and #USSChancellorsville are conducting a routine Taiwan Strait transit August 28 (local time) through waters where high seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law.
Read more here:
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“She had lots of male friends but they never seemed worthy. She was so attractive and the men looked ordinary and I never understood it”
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It is deeply disappointing that the #NPTRevCon was unable to reach consensus this evening, despite the extraordinary efforts of . Russia's rejection of the proposed text is, frankly, incomprehensible in light of the generous compromise by Ukraine & all other parties.
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#Ukraine: An Australian 🇦🇺 Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle which is currently being actively used on the frontline- this has a EOS R400-Mk2 remote weapon station with an American Mk. 19 Mod 3 automatic grenade launcher. This is the first time we have seen this combination.
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On responds: “I always thought the time for morning teas was after you've won the war, because I'm pretty sure in other countries at the moment they're not having woke morning teas; they're getting on with how they can protect and defend their country”
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Australian defence writers: "India's first locally built aircraft carrier will be commissioned next week"
Indian defence writers:
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"We recognise a diverse workforce supported by an inclusive culture is essential to Defence's capability and effectiveness”
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“I haven't heard tickety boo – nothing. I know that it went through all the official levels with PNG's Australian High Commissioner, so I know that it's gone through to her ()”
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"It is still business as usual for us, we force generate our crews to a very high standard, they're capable of operating in contested environments and so we think they're well equipped to keep operating in the South China Sea"
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“The Collins Life Of Type Extension (LOTE) is technically risky, expensive – and will only add 10 more operational years to each submarine. A new submarine will have a life of 30 years”
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Forget Collins LOTE – buy new submarines from Korea instead
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“Labor has expressed confidence in the Governor-General… but questions remain over whether the retired General David Hurley raised any concerns about the unusual arrangements and why he didn’t demand they be made public”
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“On August 22, 1872, the mighty Overland Telegraph Line — covering the width of the continent — was connected, allowing fast communication between Australia and the rest of the world for the first time”
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Indonesia's ambassador to Canberra Siswo Pramono declines to comment on confirmation Bali bomb maker Umar Patek has had his prison sentence reduced abc.net.au/news/2022-08-1
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"The thing that's going to win this war for them is better technology … they're very much after Western technology that's going to help them, which is why the Bushmaster is so celebrated”
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Russia has flagged legal action after Australian bureaucrats scuttled the construction of its new embassy building in Canberra
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#breaking National Capital Authority terminates lease on Canberra site designated for new Russian embassy building
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Fmr PM and Minister for Health, Finance, Treasury, Home Affairs and Resources media conf at 12.15pm.
First media conf since ministries scandal story broke.
Watch live on channel
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“Senior intelligence figures, including ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess were unaware until this week that, up to election day, they had officially also been directly reporting to the former prime minister as part of his expanded ministerial roles”
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When your housemate finishes the milk and forgets to tell you
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"A balance will need to be found between bringing some ‘low hanging fruit’ capabilities forward to satisfy some immediate requirements, while pushing funding for some of the bigger ticket items out to the right" (via )
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Defence Minister Richard Marles have delivered on a promise to implement a new #DefenceStrategicReview, which aims to clarify Australia’s current and projected security environment ow.ly/IRS150KhsIz
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So Huawei, CHEC, Ministers Aviation and Finance of Solomon Islands yesterday signed a $407-million agreement for 161 telecommunications to be built by Huawei! @
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“Weeks’ return & public praise for the Taliban… stood in sharp contrast to the criticism & concerns many international groups & Western governments have expressed recently about the Kabul regime’s tightening repression of women’s rights & other freedoms”
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“I saw these people in a light that nobody else has been able to do” - Australian Timothy Weeks, who spent more than three years held captive by the Taliban, has returned to Kabul to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the regime’s return to power
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