AUSTRALIA’s military build-up has placed the nation on a trajectory towards nuclear weapons according to respected security analyst Dr Euan Graham.
The Singapore-based Asia-Pacific defence expert said this month’s announcement by Prime Minister Scott Morrison had “nudged Canberra into a more serious exploration of an independent nuclear capacity”.
AS BEIJING manoeuvres to turn the South Pacific into a “Chinese lake”, New Zealand’s response has so far been to hide behind Australia.
With Prime Minister Scott Morrison this month scrambling to lift Australia’s military capabilities to Cold War levels, New Zealand remains one of the world’s lowest defence spenders.
HAVING triumphantly knifed two Labor prime ministers so far, Bill Shorten appears to have mistimed his latest attempt to knock off another ALP leader.
Seemingly convinced his Party would lose last weekend’s Eden-Monaro by-election, Shorten struck early by releasing his own “vision” for Australia – presumably believing struggling ALP leader Anthony Albanese would be mortally wounded on Saturday.
THE ABC has been accused of supporting Marxist ideology – aimed at turning Australians against each other – as it sides with extremists’ demands to topple national statues. In a lopsided piece appearing on its public-funded on-line service, the ABC this week argued the case for removing statues of prime ministers, monarchs and white settlers.
AUSTRALIA’S military build-up is on track to dwarf Germany, France and Britain as it responds to Chinese hostility in the Indo-Pacific region.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week announced a massive war chest taking annual military spending from this year’s US$35b up to US$61.2b by 2030.
This is approaching Russia’s current defence budget of US$61.6b a year.
NSW Government Whip Natasha Maclaren-Jones has torn strips off the Human Rights Commission – accusing it of “weaponising” against Australians who hold differing views.
In a scathing parliamentary speech, she blamed a serious lack of oversight for allowing the HR Commission, among other government agencies, to punish “wrong-thinking” citizens.
THE suspended Labor MP currently under ASIO investigation has described white Australians as “obsolete scum”, banned Jews from public meetings and encouraged the overthrow of Western society.
Lebanese-born NSW politician Shaoquett Moselmane, who had his offices, car and home raided by Australia’s top spy agency on Friday, is being investigated for close links to the Chinese Communist Party.
FORMER Prime Minister Tony Abbott has called for national restraint as ASIO commenced raids last Friday on the offices of a Labor MP and his political staffer.
With the ALP suspending NSW MP Shaoquett Moselmane over “dreadfully concerning” allegations of Chinese Communist Party links, Mr Abbott has called for caution.
HAVING been rejected by Labor – and twice ousted by the Liberals – now former PM Malcolm Turnbull appears to have turned his sights towards Greens Party membership.
In a speech last week to the so-called conservative group Coalition For Conservation – members of which backed Zali Steggall’s successful campaign last year against Tony Abbott – Mr Turnbull pushed for a “green new deal” on energy.
WHEN so-called “experts” forced most of the western world’s population into home detention earlier this year they said we had to accept medical science. A few years earlier, when other so-called “experts” scared the western hemisphere into de-industrialising, they told us climate science was settled.
