Statesman Lee shows Keating how it’s done
Paul Keating’s attempt to police the speech of the government sets a high standard of subservience to Beijing’s strategic interests.
Paul Keating’s attempt to police the speech of the government sets a high standard of subservience to Beijing’s strategic interests.
The Albanese government has become publicly pusillanimous. It speaks of China now far more timidly than it did in its first months in office.
With the return of nationalism, power, tribalism, anger; and the collapse of consensus, Christianity is being replaced by the strong gods of an old paganism.
This is a good moment in our politics. The battle of ideas should be ferocious, the battle of people should be civil. Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese both deserve our thanks for this.
Is Taylor Swift a conservative or a progressive pin-up icon of popular culture? The answer is both and neither. But conservatives who shun her are crazy.
Donald Trump’s big win over Haley in her home state of South Carolina continues voters’ absolute defiance of the highly politicised legal charges the former US president is facing.
The navy needs an urgent upgrade but the Albanese government’s plans are ludicrous. It’s offering a fantasy fleet with fantasy dollars in a fantasy future. And wants to pin a chest full of medals on itself. You can’t defend Australia like that.
Richard Marles offers almost no new money, no immediate acquisition of new capabilities, but abounds in grandiloquent promises for the distant future.
With few foreign policy principles, Labor does whatever it thinks is the minimum necessary to satisfy the US we’re on board. Alexei Navalny, we are surely not.
The choice between two deeply flawed candidates means trouble for Australia.
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