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Dotty And Cretinous: Reviewing AUKUS

It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals.  But AUKUS, the trilateral security alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, is now finally receiving the broader opprobrium it should have had from the outset.  Importantly, criticism […]

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Ho Hum At Sea: Anti-China Hysteria Down Under

The conduct of live-fire exercises by the People’s Liberation Army Navy Surface Force (the Chinese “communists”, as they are called by the analytically strained) has recently caused much murmur and consternation in Australia.  It’s the season for federal elections, and the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, thinks he’s in with more […]

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AUKUS: Flawed And Sinking

A stillborn agreement treated as thrivingly alive; an understanding celebrated as consensual and equal.  The AUKUS security arrangement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, envisaging the transfer and building of nuclear-powered submarines to the Royal Australian Navy, continues operating in haphazard fashion.  So far, the stream has […]