US STATE Department spokesman Ned Price said the United States supports Australia’s decision to cancel two Belt & Road Initiative arrangements with Beijing. “We continue to stand with the people of Australia as they bear the brunt of the PRC’s coercive behaviour,” Mr Price said.
AUSTRALIA’s defence chiefs have been told to quit their bleeding-heart posturing and to toughen up. After years of governments pandering to a military obsessed with gender fluidity and political correctness, new Defence Minister Peter Dutton has ordered the armed services to “get back to business”.
THE world is at greater risk of polarisation, and like-minded, democratic nations needed to work together to carry the “aspirations of the future” Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said. In a recorded speech to the Raisina Dialogue in India, the Prime Minister said Australia was “not blind” to the realities of the state of the world.
THE High Court will soon have the opportunity of demonstrating that traditional academic freedom and freedom of expression are still alive in Australia. The decision they hand down in Peter Ridd v James Cook University will rank in importance with the Court’s unanimous decision concerning Cardinal Pell, reaffirming the presumption of innocence and that guilt be proved beyond reasonable doubt.
DEPUTY NSW Premier John Barilaro says he backs coal to the hilt while his energy minister Matt Kean has announced he wants to be completely rid of it. Mr Barilaro has promised there would never be a moratorium on coal while Mr Kean’s failed choice for climate tsar, Malcolm Turnbull, publicly pushed for an immediate end to coal mining licences.
CHINA has been warned to re-consider its aggressive stance as “credible” military forces align against it.
Australia’s former Army Chief, General Peter Leahy, said a hot war with China now appeared inevitable given its escalation of aggressive and assertive actions.
THE Prime Minister has forced the Victorian State government to hand over documents related to secret deals it signed with the Chinese Communist Party. This is the third “Belt & Road” deal between Victoria and the CCP that the Morrison government is scrutinising under the Foreign Relations Bill that will see arrangements with all foreign nations at each level of government vetoed if they aren’t in Australia’s national interests.
THE Prime Minister resembles a mindless fish which swallows any bait dangled in front of it. Most are from ABC fiefdoms which realise that any sexual assault allegation, even unprovable, is his Achilles heel.
THE mood among Liberal Party supporters is darkening as the Party continues its hard lurch to the Left, shedding millions of voters as it does. From this month’s Western Australia debacle – where a radical Liberal opposition was all but wiped out – to recent big losses in Queensland, the Northern Territory and a minority government in Tasmania, there’s little joy among centre-right conservatives.
AUSTRALIA’S domestic spy agency’s decision to drop sensitive labels such as “Left-Right” and “Islamic extremism” has received a mixed reaction, with one religious expert saying the shift to broader terminology could inadvertently mislead public perception of extremist behaviour.
