by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – THE Albanese Government’s adoption of key recommendations from the Varghese Review, including the defunding of a prominent Australian think tank known for its critical stance towards Beijing, has sparked controversy. The Varghese Review is named after Peter…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – ISRAEL’S recent targeted attacks on Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon with exploding pagers and walkie-talkies have been praised or condemned depending on political perspectives. But one factor seems to have universal acceptance by the Right and the woke Left. …
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 KEVIN ANDREWS – IMAGINE the outcry from the Chinese if an Australian naval vessel set off its sonar system at People’s Liberation Army divers, while disentangling fishing nets from their propeller while stuck in another country’s economic zone. There would be…
by DAVID FLINT – THERE is a growing realisation in the West that the Beijing-Moscow-Tehran axis is not the only hostile power. There is what could well be an even greater danger, one from within. Following the failure of the Voice –…
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…
by DAVID FLINT – SINCE Whitlam, Nixon, Clinton – and now Anthony Albanese, Western politicians have treated China’s communist dictatorship as if it were just another normal, law-abiding government. They have also treated communist leaders, including mass-murderer Mao, with respect and at…
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…
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…
