President Biden’s foreign policy initiatives have been consistently disastrous. From giving the Russians an extension to the New START Treaty on their terms to his pursuit of renewal of Obama’s nuclear weapons deal with Iran and his debacle in Afghanistan…
One day after Chinese warships were spotted within Alaska’s exclusive economic zone, the Biden administration announced Wednesday that the United States and the United Kingdom would share sensitive nuclear submarine technology with Australia. This marks the first time since 1958…
The French parliament voted Monday to require COVID-19 vaccine passports to participate in public life. The policy is even stricter for health-care workers. France joins a growing list of countries to pass COVID passport legislation and to receive pushback from…
At universities in Australia, Chinese students and certain academics have experienced an atmosphere of intimidation from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that leads many to self-censor and suppresses academic freedom, a Human Rights Watch report released Tuesday found. The 100-page…
A warning: near the bottom of this column you’ll find a completely shameless, though entirely relevant, plug. There, I said it. And I don’t apologize. Have you been paying attention to the Facebook–Australia dustup? It’s a fascinating and entirely predictable…
Canberra Americans should feel at home in Australia. A large, diverse, beautiful land, its people tend to be open and friendly. Many of its political divisions mimic those of the U.S. The ruling conservatives (naturally, “Liberals” Down Under) are divided…
It’s appropriate that I started writing this on Thanksgiving morning. We all have every reason to be thankful for the courageous Americans who stood up and did their duty during WWII, including the flyers military historian Bruce Gamble brings us in the very readable Kangaroo Squadron.
It is now a year since the leftist Malcolm Turnbull seized the leadership of the Australian Liberal (i.e. conservative) Party and the Prime Ministership of Australia from the genuine conservative Tony Abbott, in a coup as conscienceless as it was stupid,…