Australia needs a plan B:if we can no longer rely on America’s intervention to defend our interests,we need to bolster our own defences.
US congressman Joe Courtney said that “what we’re seeing is a completely needless,almost insult,to the people of Australia”.
Canberra has sent the first down payment of a total $4.7 billion to prop up US shipbuilding efforts ahead of the planned purchase of nuclear-powered submarines.
What is the legacy of the first (and perhaps only) term of the Albanese government? The loss of the Voice seems to have frozen his appetite for reform.
Penny Wong and Donald Trump hardly sound like a match made in political heaven,but there was Australia’s foreign minister in prime position.
Secretary of state-in-waiting Marco Rubio has given the strongest indication yet of what Donald Trump will do with the submarine deal.
Architects of the trilateral defence agreement said Australia should be the “beachhead” to counter Chinese aggression and the AUKUS deal was keeping Xi Jinping awake at night.
Those who fear they will bear the burden of his nuclear power scheme want answers from the opposition leader.
Living on the Central Coast,I am all for the construction of a high-speed rail link to Sydney. Currently it takes approximately the same time (1.5 hours) to drive from Gosford to the CBD on an increasingly crowded M1 as a train service that is frustratingly slow in sections.
Liberal spokesperson Anne Ruston claims that “the Coalition always has,and always will,invest in Medicare”. Well,except when under Malcolm Fraser they demolished Medibank and opposed any changes to the ramshackle health scheme we had.