Albanese, Marles all talk in face of rising Chinese aggression
The Australian government’s China policy is not working; it is failing to restrain dangerous behaviour and limit the risk to our Defence Force.
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General Campbell’s six-year reign was marked by a period of drift and inaction, when Australia needed strength and decisiveness.
We have no right to moral high ground over Israel’s actions
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Let’s hold the praise ‘til we get certainty on Defence deals
When things get real with signed contracts, actual deliveries and new recruits to the Navy then we might have something to genuinely applaud.
Refusing Red Sea mission is a failure of kit and conviction
We must acknowledge events in the Middle East affect us here at home and that freedom of navigation is a global good. It’s not too late for the Albanese government to make the right choice.
No equipment, no crew, no support: Defence falls down
Australia’s Defence is failing and appears to have no plans, aside from doing more of what it’s already doing, with an expanding hierarchy making everything more opaque and confusing.
What Albanese’s three-visit trip shows the world
The PM’s recent foreign visits exposed jarring differences in rhetoric and nasty gaps in consistency.
Alliance thriving in new frontiers, but lagging at defence core
Anthony Albanese’s visit to America had mixed results, which is disturbing given military co-operation is the core of the Australia-US alliance and key to collective security in the Indo Pacific.
Australia needs to get cracking on an east coast submarine base
The US is going to start questioning why it should fast track its own work to provide Australia with nuclear submarines when its Australian partner seems to lack the seriousness of purpose to deliver a core part of the bargain.
Why industry leaders, not bureaucrats, can fix Defence
The Albanese government should learn from the Coalition’s past mistakes in Defence and not repeat them. Our times demand fast delivery of tangible things.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/michael-shoebridge/page/2