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Rudd sticks with “Fortress Australia” among funding doubts

May 3, 2009 – 7:12 am

Kevin Rudd has rejected criticism of his deeply flawed defence build-up. In fact, he seems unwilling or unable to defend the logic of that disgraceful white paper. Just flicking reporters with an “I’m the PM and you’re not” response.
The BBC points out that the strategic hysteria underpinning the white paper and the crazy buildup are [...]

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More on the ‘focused force’

April 20, 2009 – 8:07 am

The Lowy Institute blogger has taken me to task in rather severe terms for my off the cuff remarks so I had bettter elaborate.
I don’t think the proposition of probable threat from China’s emergence is well-established at all.
Hugh White asserts that because China will become the world’s largest economy that this will lead automatically and [...]

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Planning for the next world war

April 18, 2009 – 7:04 am

The Lowy Institute’s excellent Interpreter blog is running a series in advance of the release of the Government’s white paper. So far there have been six contributions: one, two, three, four,  five, and six. The effect of much of this debate is to make you feel queasy. Most of these guys live in something akin to a parallel universe. Their [...]

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