Australian Defence Forces (ADF) Archives

Australian Defence Force Signaller during Talisman Sabre 2011 at Shoalwater Bay.

Issue #2094

An Australian Pacific Battalion: mutual defence or imperialist domination?

A report, Regional security and Pacific partnerships, has just been published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). One of this right-wing think tank’s major...

Kanak house – Tjibaou cultural centre, Nouméa, New Caledonia.

Issue #2118

Kanaky: French, Australian, and Chinese ‘influence’

Since 2016 the Australian and French governments have seen the Indo-Pacific as a major theatre of competition against Chinese economic, political and military influence, especially...

Issue #2066

US spies take over

At the recent AUSMIN (Australia-United States Ministerial) talks in Brisbane, it was announced that US intelligence operatives will be integrated into Australia’s Defence Intelligence Organisation...

Senator the Hon Penny Wong Minister for Foreign Affairs, The Right Honourable James Cleverly, UK Foreign Secretary, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles, Lieutenant Colonel and Captain the Right Honorable Ben Wallace, UK Secretary of State for Defence.

Issue #2096

$100 billion arms budget

The announcement by Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, that Australia’s military spending will reach 2.4 per cent of GDP is chilling news. This means a...

Issue #2106

LETTERS

Don’t delay – it may be too late. Dear Comrade Editor, Water and Environment minister Tanya Plibersek’s actions are attracting considerable attention on social media,...

Issue #2044

We must win the battle of ideas

Working people around the capitalist world have been hit hard from the employer class. Capitalists will always look at how to improve profit margins from...

Issue #2111

PEACE NOTES

This paper has used a lot of space to explain how Australian military forces have been turned into a working part of the US military,...

US soldier in Shoalwater Bay during Talisman Sabre 2011.

Issue #2052

Australia-USA exercise Talisman Sabre: Preparing for war in Taiwan

According to the Australian Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, Exercise Talisman Sabre is the largest war game ever held between the Australian Defence Force (ADF)...

Issue #2098

DINGO

Paramilitarised Powers to intervene in civilian public order management were given to the Australian Defence Force to be used during the 2000 Sydney Olympics, although...

Issue #2047

STOP AUKUS!

A vocal and forceful protest demonstration took place at 8 in the morning of 21st March outside the Western Australian Defence Forum (admevents.com.au/western-australia-defence-forum) in Rockingham...

Issue #2094

Blood on their hands

Following the deadly air strike on 2 April on the World Central Kitchen (WCK) convoy in which 7 staff were killed, the WCK and other...

Lavarack Army Barracks, Townsville, c 1966.

Issue #2205

Townsville military buildup

The Defence Strategic Review placed great importance on Australian defence planning on the defence of Australia’s northern approaches. In 2024, the Australian government announced a...

David McBride outside of the Supreme Court in Canberra, 2024.

Issue #2203

ADF whistleblower McBride released: what now?

Australian whistleblower and former ADF legal officer David McBride has been released on parole after serving the full non-parole period of his unprecedented five-year and...

Issue #2129

Talisman Sabre, the drive to war

The 11th Talisman Sabre military exercise will be held later this year. A lot has happened since the last gathering in 2023. While the exercises...