Desperate in its search for security from Asia we are becoming a US protectorate
In responding to comments made by me overnight in respect of AUKUS and defence arrangements with the United States, the Prime Minister says ‘the world has changed between 1996 and 2024’. He says, ‘the world is different’.
These remarks are to imply that conditions which obtained during the period of my prime ministership are different to those which obtain today.
Of course, in a period of just on thirty years, international conditions do change. But the relevant issue is that our geography has not changed. And geography is the primary factor in geo-strategic settings.
The fact is, the Albanese government is returning to the Anglosphere to garner Australia’s security. In effect, the Albanese government is doing the very thing that all my life, I had trenchantly opposed, and in the post-War years, Labor had opposed. And that is,........
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