If the PNG government has knocked back the objections from the Australian government to their signing up to a Chinese BRI debt trap, that’s it. The Australian government has not done what it said it would; and a country once a dependency of Australia, is getting closer to being dependent on Communist China.

There is no point in saying, “The Prime Minister should …”. Our PM has clearly established himself as the most pig-headed, full-of-it, but do-nothing Australian leader yet. And, he has to consult his wife on the matter of an alleged rape that occurred at one of his Minister’s drunken ‘dos’. And, the missus says he has to think like a father - not just any man who is appalled by such conduct, father or not.

Scott Morrison talks about ‘what’s best for Australia’, but he is really interested in what is best for him.

Morrison has done nothing to indicate that he is “serious about the dominance of China”.

ttbn,
The Goaf was the main instigator (and the hero of the Left) in PNG's independence. Are the descendants of his then supporters now asking Morrison to somehow overturn that ? I mean, seriously !!

Maybe this is a Ploy (Threat) to get Australia to increase the Aid to the PNG so the Politicians there can Graft themselves more money. This would not be unusual for Countries receiving our Aid.

I'd like to see a list of Countries that send Aid to 3rd World Countries & how much they each Donate.

individual,

I don't know that there is any point in going back to Whitlam, any more than it is useful to remind everyone of Fraser's urging for Rhodesia to be turned into Zimbabwe, with Mugabe as dictator. We can't expect to repair mistakes of the past, but we should be able to expect our current Prime Minister to pull his finger out and really do what is 'best for Australia' and not just talk about it.

The Quicksotic, tilting at windmills, timid, Morrison government is good at announcing all manner of things that never ever see the light of day as the actual reality?

So why expect a different result this time? Methinks it's little more than a bidding war with China that a piss-ant, piss-weak, country like Autralia can never ever win!

China could throw a trillion into this pot? So could we If we had a leader with balls and a determined untied party at his back! Instead of the risible rabble there now, all with hypothetical daggers drawn?

Especially those on the (rum-soaked, cage-rattling) hard right in the pocket of (up shite creek) Peabody and co?

Actually doing anything big and bold, for us here at home? A terrifying prospect! Let alone doing something big and bold for a backwater nation like (deep in the pecuniary poo) PNG
And if of those caps fit?
Alan B.

I don't know that there is any point in going back to Whitlam
ttbn,
If today's voters were to be informed of the decision-making in the past, they'd be more careful at the ballot box next time.
Alas, our education system or rather indoctrination machine, coupled with ABC/SBS is denying them the opportunity to see how long after an election their vote can come & bite them & their children in the butt. The Whitlam era (& Fraser's) is one such legacy.
It's discrimination against the next generation not to show them the folly of preceding Govts.
Teach them Australian history, not academic winge lists !