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Australia: A sovereign continent not for Marles to gift away
Yesterday’s statement by Defence Minister Richard Marles that Australia’s geography and continent would be crucial to any United States prosecution of a war against China will go down as a dark moment...
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June 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Spend 3.5% of GDP on defence? Bugger off.
Australia already spends a huge amount on defence - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...
Australia already spends a huge amount on defence - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...
Australia already spends a huge amount on defence - The Australia Institute
The debate on defence ignores that Australia already spends more than it should.
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June 2, 2025 at 4:59 AM
A bit rich given that under AUKUS Australia are paying US nearly $5bn to fix their own submarine building capacity (without any guarantee of actually selling us their subs & reportedly without other clawbacks).
Hegseth - sort your own shit out before you come for us.
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Hegseth - sort your own shit out before you come for us.
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US demands Australia lifts defence spending by $40b a year 'as soon as possible'
The United States wants Australia to lift spending on defence to about $100 billion a year, with its Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warning of a "real and potentially imminent" threat from China.
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June 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
There is a stark choice. If Australia continues to shackle ourselves to the US, we cannot help but be caught in the wake of the Titanic sinking – and it is sinking fast. #auspol #uspolitics
The Australian moment is now
History, it could be convincingly argued, is a series of pivot points. It is rarely a progression of a sequence of events, but rather a series of critical moments where multiple pathways are made available and the eventual outcome is determined by the decisions that are made in that moment.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
June 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Jacquie Lambie is correct.
And Albanese, Wong and Marles so slavishly following that bloody sociopath into his new war means our government is our biggest national security risk. #auspol
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And Albanese, Wong and Marles so slavishly following that bloody sociopath into his new war means our government is our biggest national security risk. #auspol
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Australia news live: Lambie labels Trump a ‘bloody sociopath’; Hastie calls PM’s response to US strikes on Iran ‘too slow and too passive’
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June 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Are we paying attention, Australia? #auspol Because we need to cut the leg rope before the USA drags us out across the reef.
Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities…
October 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
youtube.com/live/_T1WMif... “Excellent points on our unhealthy relationship with US & unwillingness (fear) to actually grow up & be sovereign Michael, thank you” #auspol #AUS-US #strategicliability #vassalage
House About It - August 17 - Michael Pascoe and Chris Wallace
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August 17, 2025 at 5:31 AM
youtube.com/live/_T1WMif... “Excellent points on our unhealthy relationship with US & unwillingness (fear) to actually grow up & be sovereign Michael, thank you” #auspol #AUS-US #strategicliability #vassalage
. @albomp.bsky.social #Trump sitdown went well in political spin terms. Albanese didn’t cop an Oval Office bollocking on live TV. But it was a very thin veneer. What now? As the Trump #fascism project further unfurls & his #dictatorship consolidates? The #USA #democracy unravels? “Alliance”? #auspol
October 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
2/. Perth, with a housing shortage just as bad as anywhere, is about to receive thousands of US families to convert HMAS Stirling into a base for US subs (It will never see Aussie ones). Many see AUKUS as surrender of material sovereignty but it’s social surrender first.
April 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Sabotaging 2026 Ceasefire With Iran: Mapping Israel’s Impact on U.S. Diplomacy
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@gailwaldby.bsky.social #USAid #IsraelWar #PeaceNegotiations #Ceasefire2026 #StrategicLiability #TaxpayerWatch
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@gailwaldby.bsky.social #USAid #IsraelWar #PeaceNegotiations #Ceasefire2026 #StrategicLiability #TaxpayerWatch
April 16, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Sabotaging 2026 Ceasefire With Iran: Mapping Israel’s Impact on U.S. Diplomacy
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@gailwaldby.bsky.social #USAid #IsraelWar #PeaceNegotiations #Ceasefire2026 #StrategicLiability #TaxpayerWatch
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@gailwaldby.bsky.social #USAid #IsraelWar #PeaceNegotiations #Ceasefire2026 #StrategicLiability #TaxpayerWatch
June 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
July 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
“We will not stop hitting ourselves in the head unless you all agree to hit yourselves in the head” DF #tariffs #Aus-US #strategicliability #MakeAustraliaBraveAgain
Frum: What a tariff is, is the equivalent of hitting yourself in the head. And he’s saying to the world: “We will not stop hitting ourselves in the head unless you all agree to hit yourselves in the head.”
July 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
“We will not stop hitting ourselves in the head unless you all agree to hit yourselves in the head” DF #tariffs #Aus-US #strategicliability #MakeAustraliaBraveAgain
At some point we've got to start asking .. are we the good guys? Trump Musk blow-up, #EpsteinFiles #Israel #China
Australia needs an urgent inquiry into Foreign Affairs, #AUKUS & defence #auspol
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Australia needs an urgent inquiry into Foreign Affairs, #AUKUS & defence #auspol
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Musk Has the Epstein Files? What That Means for Australia - Michael West
Elon Musk has declared war on Donald Trump, claiming he handed him the election — and now he’s airing dirty laundry, including Epstein files, US government secrets, and threatening to bring the whole ...
michaelwest.com.au
June 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
1/. The transformation in the US is complete. Each day is an ever more bizarre episode of a bad reality TV show. Next step is international syndication.
April 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM