Labor’s reaction to Zomi Frankcom’s death compromises the ADF’s ability to fight and win future wars. Picture Gary Ramage When Michael O’Neill, a Tasmanian who was helping to evacuate wounded Ukrainians from the frontlines, was killed by a Russian attack in May 2022,...
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Commentary: Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
PLEASE be seated as we draw inspiration from Isiah 55, which says, “Come, all you who are thirsty but have no money, eat buy wine and milk without money and without cost”. Now I have your undivided attention, let’s address the vexed issue of religious affairs in the...
ADSO Media Release: Reinstate ASIO and ASIS Director Generals to Permanent Membership of Australia’s National Security Committee
The Australian Government’s primary responsibility is to keep our nation safe from those who seek to do us harm, both internally and externally. The Government’s decision to exclude permanent members Mike Burgess the current Director-General of Security in...
Opinion: Labor’s National Security Kowtow a Win for Beijing
The Albanese government is taking a series of disturbing actions in national security, effectively implementing an agenda that the Chinese Communist Party wants for Canberra Labor is doing bad things Beijing wants it to do. These are: expelling intelligence chiefs...
Opinion: Australia ignores lessons from WWII
The past may be a different country, but has well trodden paths and byways. In 1938 politically peripatetic Winston Churchill seemed a lone voice against British PM Neville Chamberlain’s attempted appeasement with Hitler. Churchill warned against the Axis powers who...
Defence Connect Commentary – Looking into the crystal ball and preparing for the other side of a Taiwan crisis
19 Jan 2024 The Defence Strategic Review went a long way to articulating the long-term objectives and capability priorities of the Australian Defence Force in the era of great power competition, but in light of recent developments and the rapidly shifting sands, do we...
Seventy years on, the Korean War still resonates
Commemorations in South Korea yesterday, and elsewhere around the world, marked the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War armistice at Panmunjom on 27 July 1953. Today, amid the war in Ukraine and tensions in East Asia that could flare into hostilities,...
Commentary: Defence ‘con job’ shames leaders on both sides of politics
18 Jul 2023 It looks increasingly likely we’ll get nothing of consequence out of the whole Defence Strategic Review. This is not only dismal and not only the doing of this government. It shames our whole nation. – Greg Sheridan It is almost time to pronounce...
Defence’s biggest capability worry? Building its workforce
The defence strategic review brings into sharp focus the challenges faced by Australia with respect to strategic policy, defence planning and resourcing over the coming decades. Its discussion of recruitment and retention of personnel for the Defence Department and...
Commentary: ‘Armchair moralists sipping lattes lecture us on how soldiers should behave’
From The Australian June 2, 2023 Readers have their say on the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation decision. Welcome to the column where you provide the content. Greg Sheridan weighed in on the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case loss, suggesting it...