AUSTRALIANS would never sell out to China and would stand by their national principles despite calls for appeasement from Labor MPs and profit-driven executives.Australia’s ambassador to Washington Arthur Sinodinos told a US audience this week that Aussies would never “compromise national interest to safeguard economic interests”.
UNIVERSITY leaders should be hiding their faces in shame having diverted stretched national intelligence resources to deal with subversive threats on campus. The chairman of Australia’s Federal Intelligence & Security Committee Andrew Hastie said ASIO’s job was to deal with the most pressing threats to the nation – not securitising universities.
THE head of Australia’s powerful Intelligence & Security Joint Committee has called for the reinstatement of National Service as Australia’s strategic position continues to deteriorate. With rising concerns around a “strategic miscalculation” within the region, Committee chairman Andrew Hastie warned the risk of conflict was also increasing.
AUSTRALIA has been warned to further ramp up defence planning as China utilises aggression to mask its economic decline. Faced with halved economic growth, a collapsing workforce, uncontained debt and political restlessness, experts have warned the Chinese Communist Party is in a world of pain and “unpredictable”.
THE politicians are ruining Australia far sooner than anyone ever expected.It was always self-evident that a lockdown of the productive sector must be a last resort. The first was completely unjustified. It has, without explanation, morphed from “flattening the curve” to preventing hospital crowding to eradication, which is impossible.
WHEN a commercial media outlet engages in a serious and unacceptable breach of ethical standards, the solution is simple. Turn it off or don’t read it. Where this is a public broadcaster, reforming its governance, even questioning its very existence, must follow. Above all, such a broadcaster must never engage with an alien foreign power to abuse the prestige and authority entrusted to it.
PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has outmanoeuvred China’s trade threats by securing alternate markets for discretionary items – strengthening Australia’s hand dealing with Beijing’s “structural” trade needs. In a move described as “smart”, the Prime Minister has made Australia a harder target for Beijing according to defence and security expert Michael Shoebridge.
FORMER Prime Minister Tony Abbott has raised concerns about Australia’s deteriorating strategic situation saying the nation’s economy is not as strong as it should be nor its citizens as united as they need to be. In his third and final interview with the Institute of Public Affairs on Thursday, Mr Abbott spoke about his current unease and outlined what needed to be addressed as Australia faced uncertain times.
SHADOW Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has again questioned Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s leadership as a major factor in Australia’s deteriorating China relationship.
In an ABC TV interview this week the Labor senator said Australia needed “better leadership, true leadership” in order to restore a productive relationship with China.
MALCOLM Turnbull’s myopic investment in yesterday’s technology, today, for tomorrow, even managed to skip nuclear in his race for the past. In an interview with Defence News the US Navy’s top officer Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday says he has…
