Albanese needs a sea-change on his blindly defensive attitude
Every time the Chinese navy engages in aggressive military actions near the Australian coast, the Prime Minister absolves them of doing something untoward.
Every time the Chinese navy engages in aggressive military actions near the Australian coast, the Prime Minister absolves them of doing something untoward.
Donald Trump may become so unpopular in Australia that publicly opposing him becomes politically advantageous. That would be very dangerous for Australia. For the moment, we need Trump. That’s the truth.
It’s only a matter of time before Labor’s gravely irresponsible approach causes Donald Trump to accuse us, justly, of being a free-rider ally and perhaps even decide ANZUS is no more to be cherished than NATO.
Labor’s defence shuffling of $1bn, a direct shot at the Trump administration, is not even new money but funding moved forward in an attempt at deceiving the Australian public.
Dutton, more than Albanese, faces a critical moment of truth this week. In his budget reply speech, he must commit to increasing defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP within one parliamentary term.
The shape of any Ukrainian ceasefire has been the case for months, more than a year. Donald Trump certainly never lacks energy and it may possibly be that he gets a decent outcome here.
The real lesson for Australia to understand is that every tough bit of scolding Trump has applied to feckless Europeans applies to us only a hundred times more strongly.
Pope Francis is gravely ill. He is 88 years old and many years ago already lost part of one lung. Over the last few years, he’s been increasingly frail. A good man, a man of God, is coming to the end of his journey.
After the 2024 poll trouncing and under pressure by Reform, Badenoch aims to show Brits the Tories ‘are under new leadership’.
The strategic weight of the word of the president of the United States was once a powerful and positive factor in the strategic environment. Trump is trashing the credibility of his own words. And he’s insulting people who have given their lives for freedom.
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