Brooke van Velden ACT’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta and Finance Minister Grant Robertson seem to be on completely different pages when it comes to the remit of Five Eyes. Nanaia Mahuta has explicitly said she was “uncomfortable expanding the remit of the Five Eyes.” And yet
You can tell a lot about someone by the friends they cultivate. Friends, after all, are the people you pick, unlike your family. Australia and New Zealand are family: a pair of occasionally squabbling siblings who’ve nevertheless spent the last century more or less getting along under the same
They hunted him down like he’s a terrorist. Police cars swarmed him as he drove home from his church. They ordered him out of his car and made him kneel down on a busy highway. Heavily-armed SWAT police arrested him. But he’s not a terrorist. He’s Artur
Naomi Levin aijac.org.au Australia’s foreign aid to the Palestinian Territories has been cut by 25% over the past year, with funding redirected and long-running programs brought to an end. The cuts – from $44.1 million in 2019/20 to $29.8 million in 2020/21 – are due
9th May 2021 I scratched around for a suitable responsible heading for today’s second update but in the end, I can’t think of a better one than the one I have used. By closing down the internet and mobile phone services the military put great pressure on a
9th May 2021 First of all, my apologies for missing a couple of days of updates. Two of my sources have had section 505 orders issued against them and have gone into hiding. I just wanted to make sure they were ok and not push too hard for further information
We’ve all seen the glowing images promulgated by the mainstream media: smiling German women and simpering Swedish soy-boys, holding signs declaring “Refugees welcome”. Because, you know, Europeans are just so morally superior to us Antipodean oiks. Where wicked Australia tries to shut the gate on a flood of boats,
Being threatened with war by France seems somewhat akin to being bailed up at the point of a limp baguette, and protests are something of a national pastime. So, on the one hand, France’s fit of pique in the Channel seems almost comical. On the other hand, it’s
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The left have long venerated Scandinavia as a model of “democratic socialism”, even though Scandinavian countries aren’t remotely socialist. A fact that former Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen was at pains to point out to Bernie Sanders in 2015. But hey, there’s still the left’s beloved
In the left’s simplistic roster of good guys and bad guys, Denmark is very much one of their White Hats. After all, the left just love Scandinavian countries, which they falsely imagine to be “socialist”. They certainly won’t want to burst their bubble of delusion by finding the
6th May 2021 Nearly 200 Myanmar military troops, including a colonel and a lieutenant colonel, were killed in clashes between the regime’s troops and the military wing of the Karen National Union (KNU) in Karen State. Military tension has risen in Hpapun area, Shwe Kyin and Thaton Districts, in
Labour watered down Act deputy leader Brooke van Velden‘s resolution about Uighur genocide in a futile exercise of CCP bootlicking. The much-weakened statement, however, has still managed to enrage the CCP: China has lashed out after New Zealand’s Parliament declared “severe human rights abuses” are occurring there against
John Blaxland Australian National University John Blaxland is Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies, and was recently appointed Official Historian of the Australian Signals Directorate and commissioned to write a two-volume history of ASD. Talk of war has become louder in recent days, but the “drumbeat” has been heard
The idea that the best person to catch a thief is a thief has been explored in countless stories and films, from The Stainless Steel Rat to To Catch a Thief. It even has real-life counterparts: hackers have been recruited to participate in anti-hacking initiatives. Still, those are the exceptions.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Unsurprisingly the United Nations has a Women’s Rights Commission, something that is a huge issue given the societal and religious oppression of women world-wide. The latter religious factor is primarily an Islamic issue. How then is its cause advanced by the election of Iran
