It took less than 48 hours from Thursday until Saturday morning for New Zealanders to learn who their new Prime Minister would be. There was none of the dithering, back stabbing and delays evident in some other democracies when changing leaders. After Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern resigned there was just one nomination, Chris Hipkins, 44, Continue reading »
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Currently Australia has 6 Collins Class submarines in service all of which are approaching end of service life. If they are to remain safe and operational a major and expensive refit will be required. Australia no longer has Collins Class replacement submarines planned, after the demise of the program to build 12 French designed Barracuda Continue reading »
The risks for Australia in joining another “failed” American war, this one contrived to crush China, are worse than even-money, and climbing. The consequences verge on existential. Australia’s wartime Prime Minister John Curtin wrote to Britain’s Prime Minister Churchill in a 1942 letter marked “Most Secret” – “we make no apologies for our effort or Continue reading »
Top House Democrats have shown a willingness to work with the Freedom Caucus to block progressive reforms.
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The upcoming debt ceiling fight has an unusual feature: Republican opposition to military pork, or at least the Ukraine variety.
The World Economic Forum, which concluded on Friday, provides clues as to why European leaders would sacrifice their national economies for the war in Ukraine.
The connection between economic integration and political security has long attracted attention. Integration through intensive trade and investment relations has led to greater interdependence and made conflict more costly, helping states to maintain peace and stability. But interdependence can also increase the risk that geopolitical tensions might turn into open conflict. The situation in East Continue reading »
It’s time for the Australian Republic Movement to move on from the minimalist campaign of the 1990s and embrace reform of our archaic constitution. In 1999 those who campaigned for a Republic during the 1990s were at pains to point out that nothing else would change. Only the Head of State would be an Australian Continue reading »
In recent months, Sinophobia in the mainstream media in the West, in particular in the United States, has resulted in widespread condemnation of China for its undemocratic and repressive social credit system. Never mind America has something similar. There are also big dissimilarities between China and the U.S. in this realm that beg to be Continue reading »
The man who walked out on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s apology to the stolen generation, Peter Dutton, has demanded that all Australians celebrate Australia Day with gusto, or else. ”I, and my good friends at News Corp have decided that... Read More ›