Richard Marles has confirmed the landmark defence strategic review will focus on force projection with Australia set to pivot towards long-range missile capability in the face of growing threats.
The Albanese government will unveil the landmark defence strategic review, and its response to the once-in-a-generation report, on Monday, marking a major shift in Australia’s defence posture.
Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Sheean arriving for a logistics port visit in Hobart, Australia. Australia. Picture: Getty Images “Trade as a proportion of our economy today is far higher than it was in 1985 that means that we are much more reliant upon those sea lanes.“That body of water is now clearly central to Australia’s national interests in a way that it wasn’t back in 1985.”
“We need to protect our connection to the world and we need to play our part in providing an underpinning of the global rules based order,” Mr Marles said.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
‘I have a high regard for Paul Keating’: Richard Marles on Keating’s AUKUS commentaryDeputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says he has a “high regard” for Former prime minister Paul Keating despite Mr Keating’s negative comments on the AUKUS deal. “I have a high regard for Paul Keating and I’ve been keen to keeping abreast with the thinking of the government and the direction in which we’re going,” he told Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell. “In terms of the capability that we need in the future and making sure that it matches if you like the capability that came from – has been with the Collins-class submarine the submarine, which evolved from the Hawke-Keating years and we saw the beginning of the commissioning of the Collins-class in the late 90s through to the early 2000s.”
Read more »
Marles makes surprise admission about time in shadow cabinetFive years before Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles worked on the historic AUKUS deal with the US, he spent 24 hours aboard a submarine so he would know exactly what it was like to crew an Australian defence vessel.
Read more »
Not many MPs have undergone the ‘unusual experience’ of staying 24 hours in a submarineNot many members of parliament have undergone the “unusual experience” of staying 24 hours in a submarine travelling far down in depth, says Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles. “I don’t think there are many – if there are others who have done it, I mean I think people have been on a submarine but to actually spend 24 hours and go out to sea on one and go down in depth as we did off the coast of Fremantle,” he told Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell. “I think that is a pretty unusual experience.”
Read more »
The multi-billion-dollar question that could pit Australia and its neighbours against each otherHundreds of billions of dollars is sitting in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, but the decision about whether to extract them is pitting neighbour against neighbour. This is a joint reporting project by SBSNews and AJ101East.
Read more »
Australia seeks Japan’s help to be critical minerals ‘superpower’Australian critical mineral producers are looking to Japan to help finance the government’s push to develop processing capabilities and help break China’s dominance.
Read more »