AUKUS, AUKUS AUKUS.

Enough already! There is no point in AUKUS and submarines that might or might not start being seen in a decade or more.

What we need is something to deal with possible missiles from you-know-where we'll before that.

Australia is a shag on a rock. The 2025 election says that Australians like it that way.

So far, so good; then Hunter suggests that the Communist Chinese dictatorship is not the “big bad boogey man of the north”.

Then: “Australia may need to make a radical departure from its existing track”.

This is the most pointless article, of many pointless articles, that Murray Hunter has produced.

Australia is saved by its irrelevance. The enemy is within.

In the meantime, the Albanese government 'might' lift its defence spending, but NOT to 3% of GDP.

At the same time, Australia is increasing its aid to Ukraine, a country that has nothing to do with Australia, while increasing sanctions against Russia, another country that has nothing to do with Australia. The average Russian wouldn't know where Australia is, and I don't think Putin has ever mentioned the insignificant shag on a rock.

The enemy is within.
diver dan,
How many years have some of us been saying that ? And, Albo is bringing in more as we didn't have enough of the useless kind already.
Labor's mentality beggars belief !

Indyvidual

There are certain ruling class politicians currently in power, who would be less than secretly joyful to wave goodbye to one hundred thousand Australian Jews as they expatriate themselves out of Australia to Israel, for their personal safety.

diver dan,
I think it's unhelpful to look at people living here as automatically Australians. Jews, Arabs, Greeks, Ons, Turks, Germans, Italians, Chinese, Japanese etc etc & whatever are Australian only in a technical sense. Deep down peoples' loyalty ultimately is with their heritage. Of course, they'll never admit it & keep faking their loyalty as being "proudly Australian". If any were indeed capable of becoming Australian they wouldn't tolerate the demonstrations & open support for the "Homeland". What exaggerated that hypocrisy is the insanity of dual citizenship which affords them to spend money made here in the homeland until it runs out & then conveniently come back to fill the coffers again. Billions upon billions are drained away from the economy here. I knew someone from an Asian Nation who said they'd never take on Australian citizenship yet they happily send thousands every couple of months to the relatives in their "Homeland". The whole immigration rort is constructed around the eventual takeover of Australia by those who are feverishly working on expanding their "Homeland" culture & practices here whilst getting paid to do so by Australians with no connection to them. A good Government would never cooperate with this scheme.