Defence spending used to account for little more than a fifth of government spending on procurement. Just seven years ago. Now it accounts for almost three-quarters
AS the federal election looms next year, there is a multi-billion dollar blow-out in government spending on contracts which have not gone out for tender; and this spending has been rapidly ...
Global defence contractors are among the largest beneficiaries of Australian government spending. All the big names of military hardware operate here: from Boeing and Raytheon to Lockheed Martin ...
When it comes to war, our government needs to be more transparent and to open up decision-making on whether to become involved. Professor John Keane, University of Sydney, reports.
In March ...
Terrorists and evil masterminds pursuing world domination are now on notice. They are required to inform paint-maker PPG Industries if their paint is to be used in rockets or chemical and ...
The financial clout of Australia’s billion-dollar gun industry is increasing with firearm sales, membership revenues and political donations all climbing according to an investigation for ABC ...
The Adani Group has become embroiled in a corruption scandal in South Africa after a series of leaked emails revealed the Indian power company was in talks to do a weapons deal with the ...
The global giants of nuclear power are in disarray. As Westinghouse Electric, Toshiba, AREVA struggle in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, a new breed of sophisticated nuclear campaigners, led ...
Sensibly, the federal government abandoned plans to privatise the database of the corporate regulator just before Christmas. Almost inexplicably, the NSW government continues to pursue its plan ...
If, faraway, there is little stirring of the earth in Oxfordshire, in the shadows of the village church in Sutton Courtenay, it is because this is where George Orwell is buried and George Orwell ...
Opinion piece by George Rozvany
In 1964, when Bob Dylan wrote his immortal protest song, ”The times they are a-changin”, the Peoples’ Tax Revolution of today was 52 years away. While many ...
After a welter of strategic press leaks, targeted with the precision of a laser-guided missile, the 2016 Defence white paper was finally unveiled this week.
Defence spending has the added ...