by PAUL COLLITS – THE odds against Anthony Albanese making it back to the Lodge for a second term must be lengthening by the day. Ditto the odds of him even being there for the ALP’s next election launch. Some time back…
by JESSIE ZHANG – FOREIGN Minister Penny Wong has offered asylum to all residents of the small Pacific nation of Tuvalu claiming “climate change could impact their homeland”. The move provides a pathway for Tuvalu citizens to relocate and access Australian services…
by ERIC LOUW – FOREIGN Minister Penny Wong has discovered that while playing the colonial guilt card might work well with Left-wing audiences, the use of such finger-wagging on the international stage is a diplomatic failure. Why Wong thought publicly shaming Britain…
by DAVID FLINT – FOREIGN Minister Penny Wong has hardly “recognised” Tel Aviv as Israel’s capital. She cannot. That remains the sole prerogative of the Israeli government. If Minister Wong had prudently first phoned her Jerusalem-based counterpart, she would have realised her…
INDIGENOUS Senator Jacinta Price has called for an “Asian Voice to parliament” that would specifically advise how to improve Labor MP Penny Wong’s life. In a stirring address to CPAC Australia this month, Senator Price said the government’s attempts to create racial…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of the great advantages of awful politicians who become foreign ministers is that most of the time they are out of the country, far, far away from us, indulging in the bulldust that is the stuff of…
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…
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…
SHADOW Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong’s sustained defence of China is “worse than appeasement”, according to legal academic and political historian Prof David Flint. The long-serving Australian Labor senator has repeatedly sided with Team China, even as it unleashed havoc on Australian farmers, fishers, miners and businesses.
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.
