Former clients of Mick Bainbridge’s law firm claim they were overcharged for legal advice. The firm is suing them for not paying their fees.
Canberra has sent the first down payment of a total $4.7 billion to prop up US shipbuilding efforts ahead of the planned purchase of nuclear-powered submarines.
“Who would have thought a year ago that Greenland would be at the centre of political and strategic debates?,” the French president said without mentioning Trump by name.
Secretary of state-in-waiting Marco Rubio has given the strongest indication yet of what Donald Trump will do with the submarine deal.
“You are asking us to lower the standards to make you the secretary of defence simply because you are buddies with our president-elect?”
Architects of the trilateral defence agreement said Australia should be the “beachhead” to counter Chinese aggression and the AUKUS deal was keeping Xi Jinping awake at night.
A backlog of 60,000 unprocessed medical and compensation claims from veterans has been cleared – and has delivered a $13 billion hit to the budget.
Seven months after Daniel Duggan lost his two-year legal battle to stay,Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has approved the request to send him to the US.
After being left with a huge backlog in veterans’ financial assistance claims,the government is facing another $1.8 billion in payments.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said it was time to act to combat an “epidemic” of suicide among former and current military personnel.