China accuses Australia of being a ‘thug’ in the South China Sea after military fired flares at RAAF aircraft
Beijing has accused RAAF personnel of acting like “thugs” and “intruding into other people’s homes” in an extraordinary ...
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US defense secretary hosts Australian counterpart
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth welcomed Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles to the Pentagon on Friday, after Australia made its first $500 million payment to the United States under ...
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SECDEF: White House Supportive of AUKUS, Australia Makes $500M Payment
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles for a bilateral exchange at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Feb. 7, 2025. DoD Photo Secretary of Defense ...
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Pete Hegseth to meet with Australian counterpart with focus on Indo-Pacific
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will meet with Australia’s minister of defense, Richard Marles, on Friday, marking Hegseth’s first meeting with a foreign counterpart at The Pentagon.
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Australian Labor government pledges collaboration with Trump in anti-China war drive
Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles visited Washington over the weekend ... to which the dominant sections of the ruling elite view their own interests as being completely bound up with ...
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Hegseth to host Australian leader in first visit with a foreign peer
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will meet Friday with his counterpart Richard Marles, the deputy prime minister and defense minister of Australia. (Alex Brandon/AP) Australia’s defense minister ...