Naval gazing
What’s on Labor’s defence shopping list?
Unreliable ally
We should have sent a ship to the Middle East
Are you a war criminal?
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Body cam bloopers
A solution to ensure combat behaviour?
Australian notes
The announcement of the route we will take to acquire nuclear submarines is good only in parts. Down the road…
How to fix the teaching crisis: ban mobile phones, absolutely and completely
Thirty years ago I was teaching in a high school when a student brought in a very early mobile phone.…
Left to rot: why hasn’t the Cerberus been recovered and displayed?
It seems very strange that in Australia we have – neglected, forlorn, and abandoned – one of the foremost examples…
Australian notes
In 2020, after 78 years of injustice, an 18-year-old in the Royal Australian Navy, Teddy Sheean, received a Victoria Cross…
Fast-tracking Australia toward nuclear subs
The path to Australia acquiring nuclear submarines is being portrayed as too steep. We could get ourselves one Virginia-class nuclear-propelled…
Aussie life
Of the 101 Australian military personnel who have been awarded the Victoria Cross, our highest honour for bravery, most lie…
The Moskva sinking is significant
It’s early days yet, but the sinking of the Russian cruiser Moskva in the Black Sea, apparently by Ukrainian missiles,…
Darwin under attack
Numbers tell the story of Australia’s northern war
Comparing Pearl Harbor and the Darwin Raids 80 years on
Pearl Harbor is often compared to the Darwin attack but the similarities are very few. Although both were ‘surprise’ initial…
Forget the French fury and focus: Australia needs nuclear submarines now, not later
In the debate which has ensued since the federal government decided not to continue with the French submarine contract, it…
Two good submarine decisions – but we need nuclear boats now
The Australian federal government has made two good decisions on our submarine future. Continuing the ridiculous contract with the French…
Australian notes
Submarines no-brainer Our submarine acquisition program has spent several billion dollars and not seen a metre of steel cut yet.…
Anzac notes
Time for Rankin and Taylor to be rewarded After 78 years of injustice, finally last December 18-year- old naval sailor…
2019 Thawley Essay
Runner-up: ‘Sink the subs’
A Sheean VC will right some of the wrong done to the Navy
If Teddy Sheean does receive a Victoria Cross, as the Prime Minister has recommended today, it will right a wrong…
The Empire’s atomic salvation
75 years ago, Japan was saved by the Bomb
Still Sheean and the Navy get nothing
Why is the government refusing to listen to the recommendation of its own inquiry for a Victoria Cross for Teddy…
Battlefields are also minefields of uncertainty
What really constitutes a war crime?
A Defence Force slowly dying
The Australian Defence Force is shooting itself in the foot over political correctness. But venturing opinions on PC is reminiscent…
Naval notes
Australian bravery ignored Incompetence, inertia and injustice mar the fighting record of our World War II Navy, and our government…
Submarine notes
The build-process for our new subs will be disastrous Of all of the possible solutions to Australia’s need for submarines,…
