As Australia’s top strategists brainstorm how to improve the national security, a group of experts is calling on the government to lift defence spending to three per cent of gross domestic ...

It’s almost sad that this institution, one that — whatever its other faults — had small government and a scepticism about public spending ... the Chinese military threat to Australia.

Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie has called for Labor to increase Australia’s defence spending in the next budget ahead of expected pressure from the United States. “Labor is not spending ...

In early meetings with the Trump Administration, Australia has emphasised plans to double its annual defence budget over the next decade to A$100 billion ($63 billion) and notes that the United ...