by DAVID FLINT – THE reaction to this column’s 2020 conclusion that COVID had escaped from a Wuhan laboratory ranged from ridicule to denunciation as a “conspiracy theory” or “misinformation and disinformation”. These terms are code for suppressing divergence from the elites’…
by DAVID FLINT – MORE than anyone else, Paul Keating is responsible for three long decades of wasting vast amounts of taxpayers’ funds. What was perhaps worse, is how he wasted the time and attention of politicians and the media in the…
by DAVID FLINT – IT IS a truth universally acknowledged that in the tradition expressed in the question famously asked by the Roman magistrate, Lucius Cassius, “Cui bono?” (who benefits from this?) we should “follow the money”. The answers would explain the…
BEIJING has, since 2018, been operating covert police operations in Sydney in an attempt to keep a “repressive” check on Australians of Chinese descent. According to the ABC, China’s Public Security Bureau established an official “contact point” in Sydney in 2018. The…
by DAVID FLINT – I RECENTLY agreed to join a Sydney demonstration. It wasn’t to block traffic, scream abuse, glue my hands to the road, stop workers from getting to their jobs, in brief, to be a public nuisance to ram down…
by DANIEL Y TENG – CHINA has issued a new list of “demands” for the Australian government to follow if it hopes to reset bilateral ties. It comes as part of Beijing’s new charm offensive to win over the Labor government while…
by DANIEL Y TENG – PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has clashed with Anthony Albanese on the China threat during a second televised leaders debate on the weekend. For both men, the debate was crucial coming on the eve of the commencement of…
by DANIEL Y TENG – US SENATORS have warned Beijing will become the “owner and minder” of the Solomon Islands if a controversial bi-lateral security pact is implemented. Chairman of the US Foreign Relations Committee Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), on a visit…
BEIJING is in a panic over Australia’s decision to fast-track its fleet of nuclear submarines, according to Taiwanese intelligence. Taipei’s defence sources said this week that Chinese officials were caught off guard by the AUKUS partnership and viewed it as a “major…
LABOR is demanding Scott Morrison accept Australian Defence Force advice not to reverse Chinese control of Australia’s most northern sea port. While calling for a briefing on the matter, Labor defence spokesman Brendan O’Connor this week warned the government not to act…
