Politics

The White House has earned the ire of one of Hollywood’s biggest names after they used a clip from the movie Tropic Thunder to glorify war efforts in the Middle East.

Efforts to assist Australians to return from the Middle East conflict are being stepped up by the federal government, with buses to cities with open airspace.

Close trading partner fires back over claims its military forced an Australian chopper to perform ‘evasive action to maintain safe flight’.

One week into the US-Israel war on Iran, Donald Trump says America is now ‘respected’ more than ever as the US release stunning figures on the scale of the attacks.

Russia has been accused of providing intelligence that could help Iran attack the US military, while Vladimir Putin has had a phone call with Iran's president.

Iran is about to be ‘hit very hard’, President Donald Trump says, as the US considers targeting new areas and groups "because of Iran's bad ⁠behaviour".

Seven days ago the first missile strikes hit Tehran, creating a shockwave that reverberated across the globe.

Federal Liberal MP Andrew Hastie has doubled down on his attacks on Federal immigration policy, saying many Australians are ‘angry’ with the rate of migration, leading to a rise in One Nation support.

Australia’s security has been tied to the US since World War II and remains so. The AUKUS program which has placed our sailors in US facilities is a key part of that.

A leading Australian intelligence expert says foreign officials should appear before a Royal Commission into the Bondi Beach terror attack.

Defence is refusing to say whether a naval communications facility in the remote northwest helped support a US submarine carrying ADF personnel launch a deadly strike against an Iranian warship. 

For decades officials from other nations have expressed bemusement at the ridiculous levels of defence secrecy in Australia.

Shadow defence minister James Paterson has urged the Albanese Government to publicly condemn a Chinese military incident that put ADF personnel at risk.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers invited economists to Canberra to hear their views on the economy. But a former Treasury economist said it looked like a scheme to make them back off from slamming the Budget.