by Michael Shoebridge | Jul 15, 2025 | China, Policy
So, prime minister Albanese is in China for his fourth meeting with Xi Jinping, accompanied by a large Australian business delegation. We hear from the government that now they have ‘stabilised the relationship’ with Beijing, it’s time to grow our two way...
by Michael Shoebridge | Jul 14, 2025 | China, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Policy
Senior figures in the Trump Administration are asking if Australia is committed to deterring Beijing from invading Taiwan and have made their request public. And our prime minister is tying himself up in knots trying not to answer. He doesn’t want to say...
by Peter Jennings | Jul 8, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Anthony Albanese’s wildly inaccurate take on John Curtin’s war would fail as an undergraduate essay. Curtin’s defiance of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt to bring Australian troops home from the Middle East did not win the war or create an independent...
by Michael Shoebridge | Jul 7, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Anthony Albanese has used a speech about our wartime prime minister John Curtin to assert Australia’s independence on security from America, right when our relations with Trump’s America and Xi Jinping’s China are both complicated and difficult. His speech will be...
by Peter Jennings | Jul 5, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Policy
“It’s past the point that the failure of Donald Trump and the Prime Minister to meet face-to-face can be put down to diary difficulties. Anthony Albanese will not go to Washington – and it’s clear Trump is playing him.” Ernest Hemingway famously asked:...
