Category Archives: Australian politics
Beyond the Asia-Pacific: China’s Next Geo-Strategic ‘Stepping Stone’
STROBE DRIVER, JUN 4 2016, 3587 VIEWS Image by U.S. Pacific Command China in recent times has begun to drastically alter its role in the Asia-Pacific (A-P) region, from that of being a docile observer for many decades to being … Continue reading
A different comment on the Paris attacks
And so it remains the sad and pathetic truth that the Algerian Conflict (see: The Algerian Conflict: A Savage War of Peace by Horne) has not been mentioned in the debate with regard to the latest tragedy in France. The … Continue reading
But will China invade Australia?
These past weeks have seen Clive Palmer MP berate the People’s Republic of China (PRC) government and other (Chinese) that have had business dealings with him. This was followed by a further dictum from his colleague Senator Jacqui Lambie speaking … Continue reading
What a State demands, what a citizen gives, and what Abbott and Hockey simply don’t understand
Recent history and the dreaded ‘age of entitlement’ mantra The rhetoric from the Abbott-Hockey mantra of the ‘age of entitlement’ appears to be getting more manic as a viewing of the ABC’s Parliament Question Time will attest; and as other … Continue reading
People ‘cost too much’: the Abbot Government and Neoliberalism
What to do, what to do… The current non-acceptance of the 2014 Budget by the Australian population—which in turn has been reinforced by the majority of state government premier’s—does not bode well for the future of the Coalition as a … Continue reading
Australia’s Abbott government, the Asia-Pacific region and the ‘China Divide’
Prime Minister (PM) Abbott arrived in China after a somewhat successful mission to Japan and South Korea recently, in acquiring trade benefits on some Australian exports. Broadly speaking, his visit to parts of the Asia-Pacific (AP) region has been hailed … Continue reading
Australian Navy ‘strays’ into Indonesian waters
There is much to read in to what has happened recently in the straying of Australian Navy vessels into Indonesian sovereign waters and the ire this has raised in the officials of their government. From a party that espouses ‘sovereignty’ one would think … Continue reading
The Indonesia spy scandal and the future for Australia
Professor White of the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre is right in his article in The Age, on 26 November, 2013: ‘Abbott playing with diplomatic fire in Asia.’ The level of incompetence shown by the Abbott government in dealing with … Continue reading
Abbott and the Archipelago
The recent lecturing of the Abbott government to the Indonesian government about what Australia will do about asylum-seeker boats is an affront to Indonesian sovereignty on several levels. Firstly, we (that is Western Europeans) forced the concept of sovereignty on to Asia and for us to … Continue reading
China, the Pacific and the waves it will create for Australia
At the present time for Australia the rise of China is not yet complete, but that is not to say Australians should be complacent to the challenges that its rise will bring. Nothing is more certain however, than as China … Continue reading
Geo-Strategic Orbit 