We need to pool our defence capabilities
Australia needs friends after several years of being punished by Beijing for failing to subordinate our national interests to China.
Peter Jennings
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A cricket Test of the Taliban’s PR
Australia is due to play Afghanistan in the first cricket Test between the two countries in Hobart in mid-November. This match must not happen.
To keep US interest going, we must be a stronger ally, fast
Don’t be fooled by the usual rhetoric about mateship and standing shoulder to shoulder. Strong alliances are based on calculations of interest and mutual usefulness.
America cut and ran with panicked incoherence
The only thing worse than a ‘forever war’, as Joe Biden has called the Afghan conflict, is a ‘forever defeat’. The President has delivered that.
Eight reasons I think Covid escaped from the Wuhan lab
It’s no small thing to get all 18 US intelligence agencies agreeing that the laboratory accident scenario was a likely cause of the pandemic.
Defence spending needs to match the risk of conflict
Xi JInping has learned to turn risky situations to his advantage and will apply the same strategy to Taiwan.
We need Darwin Port in our hands
The risk of Indo-Pacific conflict is sharply rising and Darwin is emerging as a strategic location not just for Australia, but for our allies.
We’ll be on this rollercoaster for years
While Scott Morrison and his senior look confident, China’s rhetoric suggests panic is seeping in. The question now is, what do we do about New Zealand?
Biden’s big blunder on Afghanistan
The US President forgets that this war was fought defending US and Australian interests. And the next one will be, too.
US brings weight to Quad as China airs contempt
The risk of a slide into conflict is clearly playing on the Prime Minister’s mind.
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