Australia: Outsourced to the US Military Establishment
It’s a very funny thing. In the US, the provision of services in such industries as security and intelligence is...
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Backyard Jitters: Australia, China’s Military and The Solomon Islands
The impression given was that of a temple burgled by blaspheming reprobates. But Australian politicians were having none of it. ...
Weaponizing Coal: Australia Gives Ukraine a Gift
Few would forget the antics of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison who, as Treasurer, entered Parliament with a lump of...
Anachronistic Frivolity: Australia’s Recent Tank Purchase
The operating doctrine of many a defence ministry is premised on fatuity. There is the industry prerogative and need for...
Backing Horses: Australia’s Solomon Islands Intervention
The history of humanitarian or policing missions is a history of taking sides, disruptive partiality and the forfeiture of the...
Cheap Grace and Climate Change: Australia and COP26
It was not for everybody, but the shock advertising tactics of the Australian comedian Dan Ilic made an appropriate point....
Weaponised Refugees and Hybrid Attacks
Refugees and asylum seekers provide rich pickings for demagogues and political opportunists. The Australian approach politicises their plight by...
Australian Sweet Potatoes Enjoying Good Demand
Australian sweet potatoes are currently having impressive showing in the market. The last three months saw the start of the...
Secrecy and Calamity in Australia’s Vaccine Rollout
With a lamentable, even disgraceful vaccination rate, confusion over how best to deal with the AstraZeneca supply, vague promises about...
In Australian Desert, Farm Uses Solar to Grow Tomatoes
For some 300 days a year, Sundrop Farms 127m tall central solar power tower shines on the tomato farm near...
Elbowed and Hustled: Australia’s Yellow Peril Problem
With the babble about Cold War paranoia becoming a routine matter in Canberra, the treacherous ground for war with China...
Australian Table Grapes Facing Delays in Chinese Ports as Trade Dispute Hots Up
In what is being touted as the latest multi-million-dollar trade dispute between Canberra and Beijing, several hundred containers filled with...
Forgetting Citizenship: Australia Suspends Flights from India
As India is being devastated by COVID-19 cases that have now passed a daily rate of 400,000, affluent and callous...
Fatuous Defence: Australia’s Guided Missile Plans
Even in times of pandemic crises, some things never change. While Australia gurgles and bumbles slowly with its COVID-19 vaccine...
Coming to the Playing Field: Biden Puts Australia First
It has gotten tongues wagging in the diplomatic corps of Beijing, Washington and distant Canberra. The opening session of the...
Refriended in Defeat: Australia Strikes a Deal with Facebook
The Australian Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, was unconvincing in his efforts to summon up courage. The Australian government had been left...
Facebook Unfriends Australia: The Triumph of Epistemic Chaos
Creepy and ruthless Facebook has again impressed with its steely indifference to civic responsibility, as if a company established by...
Lobbying for Gain: Nick Warner and Australia’s Revolving Door
Governments have an almost crippling trouble appreciating conflicts of interest. Since tentacle-heavy lobby groups decided to move into the world’s...
China, Papua New Guinea and Australia’s Backyard Blues
Clever diplomacy rarely involves total commitment or unqualified fidelity to any one state. Treacherous waters require careful navigation, an understanding...
Cowardly History: Australia Day and Invasion
It’s the sort of stuff that should have been sorted years ago in Australia: a murderous, frontier society ill disposed...
Immortal Wins: India Defeats Fortress Australia
It was never meant to be like this. After the Indian cricketing team met misery and disaster in the first...
Not Adding Up: Australia, Iran and the Release of Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Australia’s ambassadorial offices and political leaders have a consistent record of ignoring their citizens in tight situations. David Hicks, Mamdouh...
Skewed Responsibility: Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan
The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry was always going to make for a gruesome read – and...
Petitions, Probes and Rupert Murdoch
Australia has given the world two influential and disruptive exports in the field of media. One, currently in London’s Belmarsh...
Good Riddance: Facebook Threats and News Opportunities
News and information can only go so far. Despite the utopian fluffiness about having multiple platforms, the consumers of news...
Google’s Open Letter: Fighting Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code
Tech giants tend to cast thin veils over threats regarding government regulations. They are also particularly concerned by those more...
Constitutional Umbilical Cords: The Palace Letters and Royal Secrecy
On July 14, Jenny Hocking was breathless. “Forty-five years after they were written,” the political scientist penned with excitement in...
Criminalising Journalism: Australia’s National Security Craze
There has been a lot of noise made in Australia about the need for broader protections when it comes to...
Defending Australia: The Deputy Sheriff Spending Spree
There are few sadder sights in international relations than a leadership in search of devils and hobgoblins. But such sights...
Battles over Education: Australia, China and Unsafe Universities
Entering a university should be, to some degree, unsafe. Away from the gazing eyes of parents, institutional structures for the...
