AUSTRALIA is rapidly accelerating its procurement of new defence equipment and technology amid a globally deteriorating strategic environment. Defence Industry Minister Melissa Price has spearheaded the changes, which will involve slashing swathes of red tape that previously protracted procurement negotiations by years. …
FORMER Australian defence minister Kevin Andrews has made the case for a “diplomatic” boycott of Beijing’s Winter Olympics. A diplomatic boycott would see Australia refuse to send government representatives and embassy officials to the Beijing games – while athletes and coaches would…
WARRINGAH MP Zali Steggall has come under blistering criticism after rejecting calls for a “diplomatic” boycott of China’s Winter Olympics. A diplomatic boycott would see Australia refuse to send government representatives and embassy officials to the Beijing games – while athletes and…
A CHINESE spy ship has been circling Australia for three weeks collecting intelligence off the coast, raising security concerns as Australia’s defence minister warned the country is facing the most dramatic change in its strategic environment since WWII. Intelligence ship Yuhengxing entered…
FORMER Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has delivered a stinging criticism of Chinese Communist Party leadership during a speech to the Yushan Forum in Taiwan on October 8. Mr Abbott said he turned down an opportunity to attend the conference two years…
AN AUSTRALIAN academic has abruptly fled to China after his work on developing technology to identify Uyghurs based on visual data was found to be unethical. Research conducted by professor Wanquan Liu at the University of Curtin in Western Australia and published…
THE Chinese leadership is beset by insecurity and a “siege mentality”, according to the outgoing head of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade. Secretary Frances Adamson, a former ambassador to China who was present during the elevation of Xi Jinping to the Communist Party leadership, said that from his ascension, the Chinese regime underwent the most “consequential change”.
WE ARE now being told that it was Donald Trump’s fault that the mainstream media missed the story that the Wuhan virus probably escaped from a military-controlled laboratory. They even claimed that anyone who suggested this was plausible, as I did over a year ago, needed medical attention. As they do anyone who concludes, as I do, that the presidential election was rigged through flagrant breaches both of scrutineering and of the Constitution.
UNTIL recently the sanity of anyone suggesting that the Wuhan virus could have come from a laboratory was put in issue … it is fascinating when reality catches up.
FEWER Australians wanted to buy products made in China, preferring locally made goods, according to new figures. The number of Australians more likely to buy products made in China fell to 21 per cent, down 9 percentage points, according to market research company Roy Morgan.
