We’ve given Ukraine a load of old junk
The Albanese government’s support for Ukraine has been like everything else this government does in strategic matters, all announcement and no substance.
The Albanese government’s support for Ukraine has been like everything else this government does in strategic matters, all announcement and no substance.
In what will one day be studied as the Platonic ideal of incoherent policy, the Albanese government has effectively decided to degrade and diminish Australia’s defence forces.
Look past the impressive $330bn defence spending headline and Richard Marles’s defence policy is riddled with contradictions and illogicality.
There is a history over many centuries of Islamist persecution of the Assyrian Christian minority.
Israel is mulling a retaliatory strike after Iran’s drone and missile attack on the weekend. The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan explains the background to this latest escalation and where it’s likely to go next.
Air Marshal Mark Binskin should resign his commission as the government’s adviser to interfere with Israel’s investigations into the accidental killing of aid workers in Gaza.
Israel has received a solid 12 hours of political and moral support from Western leaders. But, as with the Albanese government’s response, it looks very shaky.
Australian nuclear-powered AUKUS submarines may eventually be welcomed into New Zealand ports.
Christopher Luxon is brimming with energy, confidence and a determination to get the NZ economy, and society, moving. But he has a couple of truly shocking things to tell me.
Penny Wong’s reasoning inverts reality, her facts are dubious if not outright wrong, her logic is missing, but the politics is compelling.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/greg-sheridan/page/18