Dear Foxy,

Only slightly less concerning than having him as the Minister for Home Affairs which is scant comfort.

He engaged in what I believe was patently corrupt behaviour multiple times in his previous role not just delivering au pairs for his mates.

There is enough of a stench around this bloke to give many people pause. But then again that could be said about a whole raft of the buggers in the LNP.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/04/whistleblower-lodges-complaint-about-peter-dutton-in-case-of-drug-trafficker-spared-deportation

So Biden has been going harder on Taiwan than Trump ever did.

"The arrival of Hennessey-Niland marked the first visit to Taiwan by a U.S. ambassador in an official capacity since the severing of ties 42 years ago."

So much thus far for the naysayers.

On China. It was good to see Andrew Bolt giving New Zealand a lambasting for stabbing Australia in the back and sucking up to China. PNG selling out to China at one end, NZ probably ready to do the same on the other end.

The US is trying to escalate a situation with Putin over Nord Stream 2;
They're trying to stop the projects completion, and ramping up trouble in Ukraine again.

"He engaged in what I believe was patently corrupt behaviour multiple times in his previous role not just delivering au pairs for his mates."

Really, I don't even care about small infringements.
What's important is we have the person who's the best for the job.

If he IS the best person for the job, then so be it.
If he's NOT the best person for the job, then get me the person that is.

SR,

Once again you have posted baseless allegations without reading the article.

What we have is probably a low-level flunky in the public service who with only a cursory knowledge of the affair sees an opportunity to smear Dutton and runs to the far left whinge Guardian who happily prints this idiots' claims ensuring that the notification by the home office that this particular case never reached Dutton is only mentioned later in the hope that left whinge morons don't read the entire article and simply regurgitate the half-truths as fact.

Quod erat demonstrandum

SR,

So after Trump supplies $bns of modern weapons to Taiwan that can make invasion by China difficult, Biden outdoes him with a diplomatic visit?

If I was in Taiwan I know which one I would prefer.