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Devorppa

News that the #USA is undertaking a review of #AUKUS has drawn out former Prime Minister Paul #Keating to say what we all know:

‘The Albanese government had the chance to undertake a review in its own terms when first elected to office in May 2022, but denied itself the opportunity for fear of being seen as dodgy on the alliance. Now President Trump’s Pentagon, as it is entitled to do, is subjecting the deal to the kind of scrutiny that should have been applied to AUKUS in the first instance.

The review makes clear that America keeps its national interests uppermost. But the concomitant question is: why has Australia failed to do the same?

In any case, the calling of the Pentagon review should be the catalyst for the government to get on with the job of forging a relevant, distinctly Australian path for the country’s national security, rather than being dragged along on the coat tails of a fading Atlantic empire.’

We all knew we would never see those #submarines and we should never have betrayed the #French

#Auspol
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RaymondPierreL3

@Alpha1Nine
Since when have the ‘entrails’ of party #factionalism (of any political persuasion) got any ‘uglier’ - but for want of an impactful intro to a piece covering regular post-election re-org. #MichelleGrattan is beating it up it seems. Factionalism is part and parcel of normal democratic politics, has ever been so.

No surprises here. No surprises anywhere because it is basically a logical numbers’ game, democratically and procedurally so. Has ever been so.

As for #Keating ’s holler and bluster, it might keep his blood pressure up but little else.

#AusPol
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“#Keating was still the prime minister, #Kennett was premier of #Victoria. The highest selling song of the year in this country was Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio. Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chili Peppers had been out for four years but still held sway over the entire universe.

There was a band in #Sydney called Def FX who were winning awards and telling us in song titles and lyrics – with a metal/hiphop backbeat – about "ritual", "magik" and "psychoactives".

This was what was in the wind. It was commercial music, the #TripleJ staple of the day, and #Cranky came and went so very quickly within all of this with 2 Bugs and a song called Australia Don't Become America, otherwise known as "Straya Don Come Merica". It was influenced by the above – the sound and the fury – and in particular by Rage Against The Machine, Disposible Heroes of Hiphroprisy, Public Enemy, Pop Will Eat Itself and EMF”

#AusMusic / #HipRock / #hip / #band <archive.md/kOQ7X> / <smh.com.au/entertainment/music>

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Emus for Entropy

We Should Be So Lucky: Why the Australian Way Works

insidestory.org.au/the-improvi

(Yet) Another analysis of why Australia has not disappeared in a froth of beer fueled cynical lazy mismanagement ... or ... ?

This is an interesting , informative and *informed* "assay " of a book by expat Andrew Low.

Yes, it/they does/do reference the frayed Lucky Country "meme" made prominent by that Don Horne bloke.

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... Australia is not compelled to follow the American lead any more than it is compelled to follow a Chinese lead. ... they are wise words.

Australians may not be good long-term planners, he observes, but they are good improvisers. Being adaptable, Low thinks, is better than being visionary.

Adaptable is what we need to be.
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Yep :)

Mostly makes good sense to this decaying lump of post sheep meat .

#Auspol #Australia #LuckyCountry
#Hawke #Keating #Conservatism
#Society #Economy #Polity #Voting

Inside Story · The improvisers • John EdwardsAs Australia faces a crisis of orientation, an expatriate argues that being adaptable is better than being visionary
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Maude Nificent

#Auspol #NeoLiberalism #Hawke #Keating

@onekind has drawn my attention to a book by Liz Humphrys — How Labour Built NeoLiberalism … not having read the book yet, did find an interview with the author in Jacobin… an interesting snippet

<The other thing to remember is that prior to the Accord, the last time the ALP had been in government was under Gough Whitlam. His government found itself in the middle of an economic crisis. Since then, the Right has always accused Labor of being poor financial managers who can’t be trusted to run the country’s finances.

The Hawke–Keating period, on the other hand, is held up as one of the most successful periods of economic restructuring. The ALP relies on the success of that period to argue publicly that it is fit for government. That creates a problem for trade union leaders. They don’t want to disagree with this argument publicly, even if they think the Accord was a massive setback for the labor movement. Even people who were critical of the Accord feel compelled to say nothing in public or even to defend it.>

jacobin.com/2020/10/australia-

jacobin.comHow Australia’s Labor Movement Helped Build NeoliberalismIn the US and UK, conservative politicians like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher kick-started neoliberalism. In Australia, however, it began in the 1980s with a fateful Accord introduced by Labor prime minister Bob Hawke and supported by Australia’s trade union leadership.
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Debbie Spillane

Michael Pascoe nails it. The media covering the sideshow of Keating’s insults rather than the substance of his comments re China .
Tell us why his comments re China not being a threat and a few nuclear subs not being the answer even if it was are wrong. And please spare us ‘he shouldn’t have spoken to a woman journalist like that’. FFS.
#auspol #keating
thenewdaily.com.au/news/politi

The New DailyHurt feelings trump media ability to weigh Paul Keating’s substancePaul Keating opened the door to the unexamined question of how we arrived at this point, both nationally and within the Labor Party.
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