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GUEST RESEARCH: A new report calling for building genuine sovereign defence capability for Australia is recommending the Department of Defence cultivate Australian defence prime contractors and create a new $1 billion fund to acquire capabilities and services from medium and small Australian companies for defence purposes.

In what could be a setback for Australia's plan to acquire American Virginia-class submarines, a US government audit has found a shortage of staff and work efficiency estimates will set back the building of new submarines by two years longer than reported in 2022.

Australia's decision to buy nuclear submarines, the so-called AUKUS initiative, has been guided mostly by ex-US Navy admirals who have potential conflicts of interest, the Washington Post has revealed in a detailed investigaton.

In a sure sign that the US is losing its ability to spread believable propaganda — something at which it has excelled in the past — a senior US naval commander has warned that China could invade Taiwan "as soon as this year".

Thirteen years ago, as Indian students were being beaten up left, right and centre in Melbourne, India was anything but flavour of the month Down Under.