by Michael Shoebridge | Feb 27, 2026 | AUKUS, China
Kevin Rudd’s 3 years as Australian ambassador in Washington have shown he can ride rollercoasters and survive. In 3 short years, Kevin Rudd has had a box seat not available to any other Australian to watch the whiplashing changes in the US – and in American...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Feb 26, 2026 | AUKUS, China, Podcasts
Plumbing new depths in politics. And Chinese sub n | RSS.com Marcus goes diving to try to find rock bottom in Australian political discourse, but has to come up for air. He at least found the curious case of a Canberra cafe that police found had put up satirical...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Dec 12, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Europe, Indo Pacific, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
AUKUS gets steamy, & cherrypicking can’t make the | RSS.com Well, well, well. the Pentagon’s AUKUS review is out – well, actually under lock and key, but apparently its’ great news that is about “strengthening” AUKUS. Hard to...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Oct 24, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Featured, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
Albanese meets Trump: champagne all round – but a | RSS.com The Grump Strategists move back into their renovated bunker deep in the Brindabellas and assess the finely managed Albanese-Trump meeting. Full marks to PM Albanese and Ambassador Rudd for stage...
by Michael Shoebridge | Sep 19, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Featured, Policy, Uncategorized
In the beating heart of this nation’s capital, Canberra, many of us have been thinking and rethinking about the Australia-US alliance and the AUKUS sub deal that is now so central to it. We’re reaching a crescendo as the long-awaited, much anticipated...
