US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has asked Australia to dramatically raise its military spending to 3.5% of gross ...

Australia’s defence hawks have chosen to overlook US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s sabre-rattling and inconvenient omission of AUKUS in his weekend speech in Singapore, instead focusing on ...

Jacqui Lambie Network Senator Jacqui Lambie reacts to US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth calling on Australia to increase ...

Former Labor defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon reacts to US Defence Secretary Peter Hegseth urging Australia to increase ...

PM Albanese says government already increasing spending and decisions will be based on defence capability needs.

Australia's prime minister said on Monday his government would decide its defence capability needs before announcing defence ...

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has urged Australia to increase military spending, a day after Prime Minister Anthony ...

China's foreign and defense ministries issued angry statements after Hegseth called the People's Republic a "threat" at a ...

The Trump administration has asked Australia to pump billions of extra dollars into the defence budget "as soon as possible" ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth​ reassured allies in the Indo-Pacific on Saturday that they will not be left alone to ...

When pressed on the thorny matter, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth offered a quick zinger. He was here at Asia’s preeminent ...

In a world rattled by President Trump’s tariffs and his scorn for Western allies, the defense secretary struck a rare note of ...