The Latest Breaking News from AUKUS

Whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden is the next US president, Australia will continue to work with America regardless, the deputy prime minister says.

Australia commits another $4.6bn to AUKUS, Pauline Hanson revisits her maiden parliamentary speech 28 years on, and Bruce Lehrmann denies getting free massages courtesy of Seven Network.

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Luxon is set to visit China after an invitation from visiting Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

There are growing concerns that another Donald Trump presidency could leave the AUKUS deal in tatters. They appear to be unfounded.

Australia has set aside billions of dollars to fund US submarine building. But the same shipyards and staff building the AUKUS subs are also building nuclear-armed boats.

Nearly 40 years after the Treaty of Rarotonga came into force, the region is on edge about another rise in geopolitical tensions

Australia, the US and the UK would have a military-style free trade zone under the Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill 2023 introduced quietly last week, and ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott says the Australian dream of home ownership ‘has become the preserve of the rich’.

Nuclear fallout has again become a top political issue in the Pacific as states worry about AUKUS and Japanese wastewater.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese returned home from his official US visit with a belly full of sarsaparilla-braised short ribs and a string of announcements under his belt.

A freed Israeli hostage, 85, has said her Hamas captors treated her ‘gently’ and with ‘care’, but also that after her painful kidnapping she had ‘been through hell’. And AUKUS discussions with Democrats and Republicans remain ‘productive’, PM Anthony Albanese says.

SSN-AUKUS ‘will be largest, most advanced and most powerful attack submarines ever operated’ by Royal Navy, UK says.