‘A cross between a damp squib and a huge con job’
Richard Marles offers almost no new money, no immediate acquisition of new capabilities, but abounds in grandiloquent promises for the distant future.
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.
Prabowo Subianto was once one of the most feared men in all Indonesia and for a time was banned from entering the US.
Any US ally who decides that it will take no serious measures in its own self-defence but leave everything to the Americans is intensely irresponsible.
Yang Hengjun’s death sentence is yet another capricious atrocity as Beijing tries to re-educate Canberra about its place in the world.
If Joe Biden really cares deeply about the Republic, he should declare now that he’s not running for the US presidency and let the Democrats pick a better candidate.
Richard Marles and Pat Conroy do not effectively run Defence. Defence runs them. This is a personal failure for both men that cannot be ignored.
With an unholy alliance between Iran, Russia and China putting us on a perilous path towards all-out war, Labor is presiding over the catastrophic run-down of Australia’s already minuscule military capabilities.
The Albanese government is still making a fair fist of the South Pacific, but its grand narrative is exposed as complete nonsense.
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