'Jennings is hugely dismissive of Morrison’s reliance on the supposed great friendship we share with our Pacific “family”, including #SolomonIslands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare'

#auspol #KhakiElection

"#Drones have both military and civilian research applications.

"While it is easy enough for Australia to smack 'science' on drone policies, making use permissible in Antarctica, this may embolden Russia and China to enhance their own dual-use technologies.." #KhakiElection

#KhakiElection

'Morrison doesn’t much care about an aghast foreign policy and security establishment openly criticising him for blatantly and dangerously playing partisan politics with the national interest'

#auspol...

'..inside the Prime Minister’s tactical playbook there’s..a sharp conviction..Russian and Chinese aggression is likely to translate into domestic political benefit for the government.

It provides an ominous backdrop to a #KhakiElection..'

#auspol

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“This #bipartisanship is a national asset,” Kelly wrote, noting that Morrison was intentionally antagonising China, further damaging the relationship, so that China would criticise him more, thus making him look “strong”'
Another #MorrisonFail
#auspol
#Desperate
#KhakiElection

Given 566 deaths, thousands in lockdown and a minister's ... For Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck, perhaps it won't ...

#AgedCare is the #KhakiElection photo op Morrison is looking for

'..nursing home owners are calling for the defence force to step in, something Prime Minister Scott Morrison has refused to consider'

www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-03/covid-ag...

'But with missing-in-action and generally invisible Foreign Minister #MarisePayne unable or unwilling to articulate this, it’s the Defence Minister and hardened political warrior Mr #Dutton who’s out there proclaiming a new domino theory'
#KhakiElection
#auspol

'With the chances of an autumn 2022 election centred around post-pandemic “hope”taking water Morrison is now preparing his plan B tapping the Coalition’s longstanding brand advantage on national security for a fear campaign about #China’s rising influence'
#Auspol
#KhakiElection

#KhakiElection

'..the PM is laying out an alternate path to re-election based on the eternal truth that for conservative governments on the skids, defence is the best form of...