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#21755127 at 2024-10-13 03:36:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition

#36 - Part 58
Australian Politics and Society - Part 34
>>21655824 "Where we go one, we go all":Dentons chief Doug Stipanicev denies QAnon town hall reference- The local chief of the world's largest law firm once ended an all-staff town hall with a slogan associated with the far-right QAnon movement, a leaked video has revealed, amid allegations he sent anti-vax and anti-Semitic material to a former partner at the firm. In the video, stood-aside Dentons Australasia CEO and Australian chair Doug Stipanicev is seen telling employees to "maintain that rage" that came following the Covid-19 pandemic to increase the firm's size and client contact. He then says a motto that is used by extremist conspiracy group QAnon - "where we go one, we go all" - and tells employees it is time for afternoon tea. It is not clear whether Mr Stipanicev was aware of QAnon's use of the slogan. Mr Stipanicev told The Australian it was not his intention for the slogan to refer to QAnon, but rather related to a 1996 film in which teenage boys and their captain learn about life and loyalty sailing a boat through a deadly storm. "The slogan was in a sailing movie called White Squall," Mr Stipanicev told The Australian. "I thought it was apt for a law firm - we work as a team and succeed together - and is meant to foster collaboration and team effort and belonging." The motto may have been used to encourage employees of the firm to continue to grow and develop following the pandemic. The Australian understands Mr Stipanicev's address to the all-staff meeting occurred around June 2022, just after many Covid-19 restrictions had eased. "We set out at the beginning of Covid to be stronger on the other side. We are stronger on the other side. We are significantly stronger on the other side," Mr Stipanicev said in a video snippet of the address, obtained by this masthead. "We have our focus now on scale, connect and innovate. We propose to maintain that rage to continue to increase the size of this firm, increase our client contact, increase our people. We will do it together. Where we go one, we go all." A former Dentons employee, who was in the room at the time, said "several employees" understood the slogan was associated with QAnon.

>>21660526 Back to Camelot:Caroline Kennedy set to leave Australia in months- Caroline Kennedy, the US ambassador to Australia, is planning to wrap up her Canberra posting within months regardless of whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris wins November's presidential election. Kennedy, the daughter of late president John F. Kennedy, arrived in Australia in July 2022 with much fanfare owing to her status as a member of America's most storied political dynasty. The widespread expectation in diplomatic circles is that Kennedy will end her high-profile posting by the time of the presidential inauguration on January 20, in line with American diplomatic conventions. She was definitive about her plans in an April interview with a Perth FM radio station that went under the radar at the time. "I'll be finished up next January," Kennedy told Nova 93.7 when asked whether she had a set term in Australia. Asked whether she would consider a diplomatic posting somewhere else, Kennedy said: "It couldn't get better than this." She is close to President Joe Biden and told this masthead in an extended interview last year that she lobbied him to send her to Australia. When Kennedy was appointed, Australia's former US ambassador, Joe Hockey, said: "It says so much about the strong relationship between the US and Australia that President Biden is sending someone from Democratic Party royalty to represent him in Australia."

#21660526 at 2024-09-26 12:54:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition

>>21360391
Back to Camelot: Caroline Kennedy set to leave Australia in months

Matthew Knott - September 26, 2024

Caroline Kennedy, the US ambassador to Australia, is planning to wrap up her Canberra posting within months regardless of whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris wins November's presidential election.

Kennedy, the daughter of late president John F. Kennedy, arrived in Australia in July 2022 with much fanfare owing to her status as a member of America's most storied political dynasty.

The widespread expectation in diplomatic circles is that Kennedy will end her high-profile posting by the time of the presidential inauguration on January 20, in line with American diplomatic conventions.

She was definitive about her plans in an April interview with a Perth FM radio station that went under the radar at the time.

"I'll be finished up next January," Kennedy told Nova 93.7 when asked whether she had a set term in Australia.

Asked whether she would consider a diplomatic posting somewhere else, Kennedy said: "It couldn't get better than this."

She is close to President Joe Biden and told this masthead in an extended interview last year that she lobbied him to send her to Australia.

When Kennedy was appointed, Australia's former US ambassador, Joe Hockey, said: "It says so much about the strong relationship between the US and Australia that President Biden is sending someone from Democratic Party royalty to represent him in Australia."

Kennedy's Republican predecessor, Arthur Culvahouse, who was appointed by Donald Trump, ended his term on January 19, 2021, the day before Biden's inauguration.

Kennedy previously served as US ambassador to Japan under Barack Obama from 2013 to 2017.

She could possibly agree to a request by Kamala Harris to extend her time in Australia, but this is a hypothetical scenario.

It is seen as extremely unlikely Kennedy would agree to serve under Trump, given their political differences.

A spokesman for the US embassy said: "At the end of US presidential terms, all political ambassadors customarily submit resignation letters.

"That is the typical practice as they are representatives of the current administration."

Kennedy landed with impact in Australia in 2022, chiding a male journalist for speaking over a female reporter at her arrival press conference.

She has worked behind the scenes to secure congressional support to pass legislation to loosen US export rules to Australia and the transfer of nuclear-powered submarines.

In terms of public diplomacy, she has focused on projecting soft power by presenting a friendly image of the US rather than delivering hard-edged policy speeches.

Michael Fullilove, executive director of the Lowy Institute international affairs think tank, said last year that he had been impressed by Kennedy's "understated manner, her conscientiousness and her curiosity".

"And of course, she has the ultimate ambassadorial superpower: the ability to get the president of the United States on the line," he said.

Kennedy told an Asia Society event last week that her Australian posting, like her previous stint in Japan, had an "enormous personal dimension" for her.

She drove across the outback this year as part of a "shitbox rally" to raise money for cancer research and travelled to Solomon Islands with her son, Jack Schlossberg, in 2023 to recreate part of the famous 1.2-kilometre swim her father made in 1943 when his navy ship was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer.

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#21252077 at 2024-07-20 14:17:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition

#36 - Part 56
Australian Politics and Society - Part 40
>>21225996 Jack Black cancels Tenacious D national tour amid calls for deportation over sick Donald Trump joke - Tenacious D, the comedy-rock duo fronted by Hollywood A-list celebrity Jack Black with Kyle Gass, have cancelled their Australian tour after an Australian senator called for the band to be deported over "evil" comments made about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet said the duo should be "immediately removed from the country" after Black's bandmate "wished for the death of the president" during a concert in Sydney on Sunday. Kyle Gass made the comment at the ICC Theatre in Sydney on Sunday night, which was also his 64th birthday. In footage shared on social media, Black presented Gass with a birthday cake on stage and asked him to "make a wish". "Don't miss Trump next time," Gass joked before the crowd burst in laughter. "I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday. I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form," Black said on social media. "After much reflection, I no longer feel it is appropriate to continue the Tenacious D tour, and all future creative plans are on hold." Gass also apologised for the "improvised" joke made on onstage in Sydney, saying it was "highly inappropriate, dangerous and a terrible mistake". "I don't condone violence of any kind, in any form, against anyone," Gass added. "What happened was a tragedy, and I'm incredibly sorry for my severe lack of judgement. I profoundly apologise to those I've let down and truly regret any pain I've caused."
>>21226022 Video: Ambassador Kevin Rudd talks up his relationship with Trump's VP pick Vance, slams Tenacious D Trump comment - Kevin Rudd has urged governments around the world to "chill out" about the increasingly likely prospect of a second Trump administration, declaring Australia's relationship with the US would remain strong and positive whatever the outcome in November. Speaking to Joe Hockey on Sky News from the floor of the Republican convention in Milwaukee, Ambassador Rudd said he was telling "many ambassadors in Washington [that] it's really important to chill, just chill", amid a surge in concern among US allies a Trump administration could see the US abrogate its role as world policeman. "If instead you think, my God, this is beyond the pale, and reach for your smelling salts, well, you know something that's going to cruel you from day one ... I say a lot, to the euros along these lines, which is chill bill," he said on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST). Mr Rudd has been on a charm offensive seeking to broaden and deepen his Republican contacts in recent months as polls suggest Mr Trump was likely to defeat Joe Biden in November, especially in the wake of the president's disastrous debate performance last month and his recent near brush with death from would-be assassin's bullet last week in Pennsylvania.
>>21226061 Australia ready to work with Trump, Vance if they win election, Rudd says - One-time Donald Trump critic Kevin Rudd says Australia stands ready to work with the Republican candidate and his chosen running mate J.D. Vance if they win November's election. Speaking at the Republican National Convention, Australia's ambassador to the US also revealed he has "what I've described as a texting relationship" with Vance, and had contacted the Ohio Senator after Trump was almost killed last Saturday to convey his concern about the shocking event. The comments came a day after Trump and Vance were formally endorsed as the Republican candidates for the White House, and mark the first time the former prime minister has publicly addressed the moment when Trump learnt about past comments Rudd made as an independent think tanker, in which he referred to the Republican as "nuts", a "traitor to the west" and "the most destructive president in history". "He won't be there long if that's the case," Trump had replied, when told about Rudd's comments by former Brexit party leader Nigel Farage during an interview on Britain's right-leaning GB News. "I don't know much about him. I heard he was a little bit nasty. I hear he's not the brightest bulb. But I don't know much about him. But if, if he's at all hostile, he will not be there long." Asked if he was concerned about his future in Washington if Trump becomes president again, Rudd said he did not wish to add to the issue, other than to say: "I think you'll note that a whole range of people over time have had a range of interesting things to say about President Trump, including John Howard, including Tony Abbott, including others."

#21251465 at 2024-07-20 12:50:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

#36 - Part 56
Australian Politics and Society - Part 40
>>21225996 Jack Black cancels Tenacious D national tour amid calls for deportation over sick Donald Trump joke - Tenacious D, the comedy-rock duo fronted by Hollywood A-list celebrity Jack Black with Kyle Gass, have cancelled their Australian tour after an Australian senator called for the band to be deported over "evil" comments made about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet said the duo should be "immediately removed from the country" after Black's bandmate "wished for the death of the president" during a concert in Sydney on Sunday. Kyle Gass made the comment at the ICC Theatre in Sydney on Sunday night, which was also his 64th birthday. In footage shared on social media, Black presented Gass with a birthday cake on stage and asked him to "make a wish". "Don't miss Trump next time," Gass joked before the crowd burst in laughter. "I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday. I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form," Black said on social media. "After much reflection, I no longer feel it is appropriate to continue the Tenacious D tour, and all future creative plans are on hold." Gass also apologised for the "improvised" joke made on onstage in Sydney, saying it was "highly inappropriate, dangerous and a terrible mistake". "I don't condone violence of any kind, in any form, against anyone," Gass added. "What happened was a tragedy, and I'm incredibly sorry for my severe lack of judgement. I profoundly apologise to those I've let down and truly regret any pain I've caused."
>>21226022 Video: Ambassador Kevin Rudd talks up his relationship with Trump's VP pick Vance, slams Tenacious D Trump comment - Kevin Rudd has urged governments around the world to "chill out" about the increasingly likely prospect of a second Trump administration, declaring Australia's relationship with the US would remain strong and positive whatever the outcome in November. Speaking to Joe Hockey on Sky News from the floor of the Republican convention in Milwaukee, Ambassador Rudd said he was telling "many ambassadors in Washington [that] it's really important to chill, just chill", amid a surge in concern among US allies a Trump administration could see the US abrogate its role as world policeman. "If instead you think, my God, this is beyond the pale, and reach for your smelling salts, well, you know something that's going to cruel you from day one ... I say a lot, to the euros along these lines, which is chill bill," he said on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST). Mr Rudd has been on a charm offensive seeking to broaden and deepen his Republican contacts in recent months as polls suggest Mr Trump was likely to defeat Joe Biden in November, especially in the wake of the president's disastrous debate performance last month and his recent near brush with death from would-be assassin's bullet last week in Pennsylvania.
>>21226061 Australia ready to work with Trump, Vance if they win election, Rudd says - One-time Donald Trump critic Kevin Rudd says Australia stands ready to work with the Republican candidate and his chosen running mate J.D. Vance if they win November's election. Speaking at the Republican National Convention, Australia's ambassador to the US also revealed he has "what I've described as a texting relationship" with Vance, and had contacted the Ohio Senator after Trump was almost killed last Saturday to convey his concern about the shocking event. The comments came a day after Trump and Vance were formally endorsed as the Republican candidates for the White House, and mark the first time the former prime minister has publicly addressed the moment when Trump learnt about past comments Rudd made as an independent think tanker, in which he referred to the Republican as "nuts", a "traitor to the west" and "the most destructive president in history". "He won't be there long if that's the case," Trump had replied, when told about Rudd's comments by former Brexit party leader Nigel Farage during an interview on Britain's right-leaning GB News. "I don't know much about him. I heard he was a little bit nasty. I hear he's not the brightest bulb. But I don't know much about him. But if, if he's at all hostile, he will not be there long." Asked if he was concerned about his future in Washington if Trump becomes president again, Rudd said he did not wish to add to the issue, other than to say: "I think you'll note that a whole range of people over time have had a range of interesting things to say about President Trump, including John Howard, including Tony Abbott, including others."

#21226022 at 2024-07-17 11:11:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

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>>21217684
Ambassador Kevin Rudd talks up his relationship with Trump's VP pick Vance, slams Tenacious D Trump comment

ADAM CREIGHTON - 17 July 2024

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Kevin Rudd has urged governments around the world to "chill out" about the increasingly likely prospect of a second Trump administration, declaring Australia's relationship with the US would remain strong and positive whatever the outcome in November.

Speaking to Joe Hockey on Sky News from the floor of the Republican convention in Milwaukee, Ambassador Rudd said he was telling "many ambassadors in Washington [that] it's really important to chill, just chill", amid a surge in concern among US allies a Trump administration could see the US abrogate its role as world policeman.

"If instead you think, my God, this is beyond the pale, and reach for your smelling salts, well, you know something that's going to cruel you from day one ... I say a lot, to the euros along these lines, which is chill bill," he said on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST).

Mr Rudd has been on a charm offensive seeking to broaden and deepen his Republican contacts in recent months as polls suggest Mr Trump was likely to defeat Joe Biden in November, especially in the wake of the president's disastrous debate performance last month and his recent near brush with death from would-be assassin's bullet last week in Pennsylvania.

"The really good thing about the United States is brand Australia is in good working order, and therefore we are in a good position to work with whichever party is elected," Mr Rudd told Sky.

"If the American people vote for Donald Trump and for JD Vance, the Australian government, led by Anthony Albanese, will be in there, working hard, positively, constructively, with incoming Republic administration for day one as it has been in the past".

At a press conference earlier in the day Mr Rudd talked up his contact with Ohio Senator JD Vance, whom Mr Trump selected as his Vice Presidential running mate a day earlier, prompting fears the young MAGA-loyalist would shift US foreign policy in an isolationist direction.

"I certainly conveyed to him [Vance] my comments immediately following the assassination attempt on Saturday," Mr Rudd said, revealing he'd established a "texting relationship" with Senator Vance.

"In terms of qualities he brings to this office that's, of course, a matter for American domestic political opinion, something which, as an ambassador, I don't propose to engage in".

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#21054415 at 2024-06-20 11:24:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

>>21054410

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More and more voters are giving up on Albanese and instead want to listen to Dutton, a trend that's been clear for more than 12 months. Dutton is offering solutions that he frames as easy, and consequence and cost-free. In a cost-of-living crunch, those who are fearful of making ends meet will naturally find that opposition argument appealing if the government is not rebutting it with a persuasive counter-argument. They will want to deal with the challenges of today ahead of problems that are years away. Let the future take care of itself.

Albanese has only himself to blame for his increasingly dire situation. He may see himself as a public housing kid made good but in the eyes of an increasing number of Australian voters, he is Elmer Fudd, constantly being outsmarted while he slowly goes about his business.

Two decisions are killing him. The first was his panicked choice to back Scott Morrison's AUKUS boondoggle. By endorsing the switch to nuclear submarines and thus the establishment of a more developed nuclear industry, he helped open the way for Dutton to advocate for nuclear energy.

The other decision was his election night pledge to hold a referendum to create an Indigenous Voice to parliament. That now rivals Tony Abbott's backing of Joe Hockey's first budget in 2014 and Kevin Rudd's 2010 postponement of an emissions trading scheme under pressure from Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan as the worst decision by a newly elected prime minister in recent history. The referendum campaign led many voters to either reconsider or abandon their belief in Albanese as a leader who understood them.

As every week passes, the unlikelihood that Albanese can win back those voters increases.

What times we live in, when a shift as profound as the adoption of nuclear energy, which John Howard's Coalition government outlawed, stands at least an intellectual chance of being implemented, chiefly to stymie all the people Peter Dutton has come to disdain.

Shaun Carney is a regular columnist, an author and former associate editor.

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#20886268 at 2024-05-19 08:15:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

#35 - Part 12
Australian Politics and Society - Part 4
>>20595022 Trump has lit the fuse, but Rudd has been a ticking time bomb all along - "Tick, tick, tick. Since Anthony Albanese chose Kevin Rudd to be Australia's top diplomat in the United States, the former prime minister's appointment has been a bomb waiting to explode. Now Donald Trump has lit the fuse, threatening to blow up Rudd's diplomatic career in Washington and damage Australia's most important security alliance. Installing Rudd as Australia's ambassador to the US was always a high-risk, high-reward gamble by Albanese. On the plus side, Rudd has a prodigious work ethic and a formidable intellect. His status as a world-renowned China expert promised a level of access in DC that other diplomats could not match. The prospect of a Trump return to the White House just became even more alarming for Canberra. Intellect and work ethic won't get you far if the leader of the free world hates your guts." - Matthew Knott - smh.com.au
>>20595024 Video: Donald Trump threatens to get rid of 'nasty' Kevin Rudd - Donald Trump has threatened that Kevin Rudd, currently Australia's ambassador to the US, "won't be there long" because of his supposed "hostile" stance towards the former president. - 9 News Australia
>>20595025 Video: Trump vs Rudd: What the former President said about the former Prime Minister - Donald Trump has declared Kevin Rudd "not the brightest bulb" and suggested the former Labor prime minister wouldn't be welcome in Washington as ambassador under a second Trump presidency. In an interview with Nigel Farage on GB News, to be aired in Australia by Sky News, the former president said he had heard Mr Rudd, who last year succeeded Arthur Sinodinos as the government's man in the US capital, was "a little bit nasty". "He won't be there long if that's the case ... I don't know much about him," Mr Trump told Mr Farage during the interview, when the former Brexit party leader rattled off some of Mr Rudd's less complimentary remarks about Mr Trump before he became ambassador. - The Australian

>>20595028 'Poor choice': Kevin Rudd showed 'lack of judgement' prior to becoming ambassador - Kevin Rudd has shown a "lack of judgement" and was a "poor choice" to become Australia's Ambassador to the US, says Nationals Leader David Littleproud. Mr Littleproud's comments come after former US president Donald Trump called Mr Rudd "nasty" in an interview with GB News host Nigel Farage. "I find it extraordinary that Kevin Rudd, who has had experience in the diplomatic pool and then as a prime minister has wanted to weigh in on foreign politics and then ended up as the ambassador to the United States," Mr Littleproud told Sky News Australia. "It shows that he was a poor choice to start with. "Now if we have a Trump administration, we're going to have a very difficult time in negotiating with a new administration, particularly with things as important as AUKUS. "This is a problem for the government, they mismanaged this, and Kevin Rudd should have known better than to make disparaging comments about a potential future president of the United States." - Sky News Australia
>>20595031 Video: Albanese defends Kevin Rudd after Donald Trump labels former PM as 'nasty' - Anthony Albanese has been pressed in Question Time for comment after Donald Trump labelled Australia's Ambassador to the United States Kevin Rudd as "nasty" during an exclusive interview with GB News host Nigel Farage. The interview between former US President Donald Trump and Nigel Farage is set to air in Australia on Sky News this evening. Donald Trump also slammed Kevin Rudd as being "not the brightest bulb" during the interview. Prime Minister Albanese was on Wednesday questioned by Liberal MP Paul Fletcher about Mr Trump's comments. Mr Albanese said the question "says everything about the character of this current Opposition". "At a time when Australians are worried about the cost of living and a range of issues that affect their daily lives - they decide to politicise Australia's representative in Washington DC, something that was never done by this side of the chamber when Arthur Sinodinas occupied that position, when Joe Hockey occupied that position," Mr Albanese said. - Sky News Australia

#20545573 at 2024-03-10 08:42:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition

#34 - Part 23
Australian Politics and Society - Part 16
>>20493681 Former prime minister's son Alex Turnbull reveals contact with Chinese agents - Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's son Alex has revealed he was the target of suspected Chinese agents over an infrastructure project, revealing he immediately rejected the approach and reported it to spy agencies. Mr Turnbull has told news.com.au that while he did not definitively know if he was the family member ASIO chief Mike Burgess was referring to in his speech, his experience fits the sting outlined by the spy agency boss. Describing the approach as "brazen", the activist and investor said he was contacted around 2017 when his father was Prime Minister, and he was offered equity in a company. "It was just so brazen," Mr Turnbull told news.com.au. "My reaction was to express no interest and forward the details immediately to the authorities."
>>20493684 Video: Joe Hockey calls for ASIO boss to name 'traitor' who betrayed Australia - Former treasurer Joe Hockey has called on ASIO's Director General Mike Burgess to name the "traitor" ex-politician who betrayed Australia by working with an international spy network. Australia's spy chief delivered the agency's annual threat assessment on Wednesday night, including the shock details about the actions of an ex-politician. Mr Burgess did not name the country involved in recruiting the representative but said he had decided to declassify the news as a way of warning their operatives their cover was blown. "Of course he should say immediately who it is, not simply come out of the shadows, say this was a politician, then go back to the shadows and leave everyone else wondering who the hell it was," Mr Hockey told Sky News Australia.

>>20493700 'It's not me': Ernest Wong speaks out after spy agency claims - Former NSW Labor MP Ernest Wong, who was found by ICAC to have engaged in corrupt conduct over Chinese donations, has flatly denied he is the MP at the centre of bombshell ASIO claims regarding a sting targeting a former prime minister's family. ASIO boss Mike Burgess revealed on Wednesday night that a mystery former Australian politician had "sold out their country, party and former colleagues" after being recruited by spies for a foreign regime". Revealing he's never been contacted by ASIO about the claim, Ernest Kwok Chung Wong, has told news.com.au that he knows nothing about the spy agency allegation and has never met with former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's son who believes he may have been a target. "No, never,'' Mr Wong said. "ASIO did contact me about five or six years ago, they did contact me for very general inquiries in regards to how the Chinese committee groups operated in Australia," he said.
>>20493719 Sam Dastyari denies he is the ex-politician singled out by ASIO boss - A former Labor senator whose political career was ended by a storm over his links to a Chinese businessman has categorically denied he is the mystery figure Australia's spy boss claims 'sold out their country'. Ex-NSW senator Sam Dastyari sensationally quit politics in 2017 amid intense scrutiny over his links to Chinese real estate developer and political donor Huang Xiangmo. Mr Dastyari, who has always insisted he is a patriotic Australian, was labelled a 'Peking schmuck' by the tabloids after it was revealed he accepted money from Chinese donors. Mr Dastyari refuted speculation that has erupted on social media in the hours since. He told Daily Mail Australia the incident had 'zero to do with me', and there is no suggestion of wrongdoing. 'I'm not jumping into any commentary,' he added.
>>20498472 Victorian Labor senator Linda White dies after taking leave over health issues - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his heart is "broken" by the news Victorian Labor senator Linda White has died after taking leave this month to deal with health issues. Senator White had a long career behind the scenes of the Labor Party before being elected to represent Victoria at the 2022 federal election. Mr Albanese said the state's Labor branch was hurting after having lost MP Peta Murphy just months ago. "To lose two women in their prime within three months of each other is beyond belief, is so sad," he said. "On behalf of the Australian government and the Labor family, I offer my deepest condolences to Linda's family and loved ones."

#20545571 at 2024-03-10 08:41:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition

#34 - Part 22
Australian Politics and Society - Part 15
>>20482515 Video: ABC's Q + A: Malcolm Turnbull reveals what he really thinks of Donald Trump - Malcolm Turnbull has labelled Donald Trump a 'tyrant', had a cheeky dig at Scott Morrison and questioned whether Israel's war in Gaza is actually what Hamas wants during his latest appearance on the ABC's Q+A. Mr Turnbull fears that a Trump victory in November will threaten to turn US into an autocracy without the rule of law. 'Donald Trump does not believe the law applies to him,' Mr Turnbull told the audience. 'Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and refused to accept it and ... encouraged a mob to try to overthrow the constitutional process in the Congress, tried to overthrow his own constitution.' When it was pointed out that Mr Trump was outpolling current President Joe Biden, Mr Turnbull replied: 'Tyrants are often popular.'
>>20488534 Controversial Israeli weapons company awarded $917 million Australian army contract - An Israeli company whose technology was stripped from Australian Army equipment over possible data security concerns three years ago has been awarded a fresh defence contract worth $917 million. Elbit Systems has confirmed it will provide "advanced protection, fighting capabilities and sensors" for new Korean-designed Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs) being constructed in the Victorian electorate of Defence Minister Richard Marles.
>>20488543 New Tuvalu govt reaffirms relationship with Taiwan - Tuvalu's new government has reaffirmed its relations with Taiwan after the election, Tuvalu's government says, adding it wants dialogue over a new security pact with Australia. "The new government wishes to reaffirm its commitment to the long-term and lasting special relationship between Tuvalu and the Republic of China, Taiwan," the statement said. "It intends to reassess options that would strengthen and lift it to a more durable, lasting, and mutually beneficial relationship."

>>20488547 Tuvalu's new prime minister indicates he will revisit deal that gives Australia control of island nation's security agreements - Tuvalu's new government has dealt a blow to Australia's signature foreign policy initiative in the Pacific, signalling it will seek revisions to the landmark Falepili Union in order to protect its sovereignty. Australian officials were relieved when former regional diplomat Feleti Teo, who was on a panel that helped craft the agreement, won the contest to become prime minister earlier this week. But, in a sign of the political sensitivities which still surround the pact, Mr Teo's new government has today acknowledged that Tuvalu's citizens were not sufficiently consulted on the agreement.
>>20493657 'Video: Your cover is blown': ASIO boss reveals politician betrayed Australia to foreign spies - ASIO boss Mike Burgess has blown the cover of a sophisticated foreign interference operation that involved a former politician betraying Australia and attempting to bring a prime minister's relative into the orbit of foreign spies. In his latest annual threat assessment, the nation's spy chief goes into remarkable detail about the so-called "A-team": a dedicated unit within a foreign intelligence service that made Australia its primary target and operated for several years until at least last year. "The team is aggressive and experienced, its tradecraft is good - but not good enough," Burgess said in a speech delivered in Canberra on Wednesday night. "ASIO and our partners have been able to map out its activities and identify its members."
>>20493671 Video: ASIO boss Mike Burgess won't bow to pressure to reveal which former politician 'sold out Australia' - The nation's top spy has called for calm, refusing to name names after dropping a bombshell that a former politician sold out Australia to foreign spies. Mike Burgess used his annual threat assessment address on Wednesday night to reveal an ex-politician was recruited by a foreign intelligence service "several years ago" but declined to name them. Former federal treasurer and ambassador to the US Joe Hockey said the claims had implicated hundreds of officials, and said Mr Burgess had a duty to every politician to reveal who it was. "You can't make an allegation or a statement about someone being a traitor and then expect that no one will ask questions," Mr Hockey said.

#20519936 at 2024-03-05 08:39:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition

>>20493657
China revealed as country behind spy chief's unnamed 'A-Team'

Nick McKenzie - March 3, 2024

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China's leading spy agency has been revealed as the organisation behind the sustained targeting of Australians detailed by the nation's spy chief in his annual threat assessment.

In an exclusive interview with this masthead and 60 Minutes, ASIO Director General Mike Burgess has separately hit back at calls for him to identify the "traitor" ex-politician who he accused of betraying the nation in last week's threat assessment.

Burgess warned those pointing fingers for political advantage that they risked embarrassment for their own party, given that foreign spy operations have crossed Australia's political aisles.

While Burgess repeatedly refused to name any overseas intelligence agency, this masthead has independently confirmed the spy unit he described as the "A-Team" in his threat assessment speech involves a division of China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) devoted to Australia.

And while Burgess also steadfastly declined to discuss the work of MSS, he said he stood by his rare and "worthy" decision last October to publicly call out the Chinese government's "unprecedented" theft of western intellectual property through hacking and other covert means.

He also revealed how his secret advice to government has led to "dozens" of diplomats being turfed out of Australia and that ex-police officers turned private investigators are unwittingly working for foreign spies seeking to silence or harm local critics of overseas regimes.

Over half a dozen of the deported diplomats were Russian, uncovered as part of an exhaustive ASIO inquiry during the tenure of the Morrison government and early days of the Albanese government, official sources confirmed.

Burgess' pushback on attempts to politicise his annual threat assessment speech last Wednesday came after Opposition Leader Peter Dutton suggested the unnamed traitor was a NSW Labor figure while former Liberal treasurer and Australian ambassador to America Joe Hockey demanded Burgess name the ex-politician cultivated by the "A-Team".

"They [spies] target all parties equally. Individuals who call out names, if they're doing that for political purposes, I suggest they be very careful because it might come back on their own party," Burgess said.

"I'm aware of Mr Hockey's comments. I don't agree with him, but he's entitled to his opinion."

Despite Burgess' refusal to name Beijing or discuss China's alleged spying in Australia, court records and briefings from security sources reveal that MSS infiltration of Labor and the Coalition has been uncovered in ASIO's higher-profile counter-interference operations since Burgess' appointment in 2019.

Burgess' reluctance to publicly name the Chinese spy agency mirrors a whole-of-government reticence to call out Beijing's aggressive espionage and interference campaigns.

Since winning government, federal Labor has softened Australia's overt relations with Beijing while simultaneously hardening the nation's security posture in direct response to advice from ASIO and other agencies about China's covert malign activities and intentions.

ASIO and the federal police have avoided publicly identifying the MSS' key role in directing minor Liberal party figure Sunny Duong- who was jailed on Thursday over a foreign interference plot in 2020 targeting now ex-federal Liberal minister Alan Tudge.

In sentencing Duong to a minimum one year in jail on Thursday, County Court judge Richard Maidment said Duong had interacted with figures he knew or suspected were MSS operatives over the encrypted WeChat application.

The AFP's initial plans to name the MSS publicly when Duong was arrested in late 2020 was overruled by government officials, said sources who were not permitted to speak publicly. The judge noted Tudge had done nothing wrong in his dealings with Duong.

The MSS is also at the heart of a ASIO-AFP joint investigation, which is yet to lead to any charges and whose resolution has been delayed by legal and evidentiary challenges, involving allegations ex-NSW state Labor staffer John Zhang engaged in foreign interference while working for upper house member Shaoquett Moselmane.

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Offer to repeal one of its powers

Critics have said that in the two decades since the 11 September 2001 attacks and the Bali bombings in 2002, Australia's terrorism laws have continually ratcheted up.

But Burgess said contrary to the claim that "we collect more and more powers", ASIO was now offering to relinquish one of its powers regarding the questioning of children.

ASIO can seek a warrant from the attorney general to compulsorily question people aged from 14 to 17 if they are likely to engage in terrorism, but this power has never been used.

"We asked for an extension of those powers last time the review was done because the threat environment in my mind justified that ask; parliament agreed," Burgess said.

"Now we're saying we've seen a recession in the number of minors [coming to the attention of authorities]."

Burgess said radicalisation of children was "still an issue" but ASIO had concluded "that's not the point you want to deal with the problem and therefore we do not need the compulsory questioning power of a minor".

The 'person knows who it is'

Burgess's speech last Wednesday sparked a round of intrigue and speculation after he alleged that an unnamed former Australian politician "sold out their country, party and former colleagues" after being recruited by foreign spies.

Some current and former MPs, including Peter Dutton and Joe Hockey, called for the individual to be named or at least for further details to be disclosed to avoid sullying the reputation of others.

Burgess told Guardian Australia his main aim was to raise awareness "so politicians and budding politicians know what this threat looks like, so they can be resistive to and report any inappropriate approaches".

He said he would not name the former politician because ASIO must "protect our people, our sources and methods".

Burgess said the activities of the former politician were legal at the time because they pre-dated the 2018 espionage and foreign interference laws.

Asked whether ASIO had confronted the former politician directly, Burgess said he would not divulge operational details except to say "this person knows who it is" and "the harm has been dealt with".

"If we see indications they are active again, engaging with foreign intelligence services, they will be subject to our investigation."

Burgess also said some foreign spies used "cover stories" to hire private investigators to gather information about dissidents in Australia.

"The private investigators may well be fooled by that, not because they're silly, because good intelligence services know how to build a good cover story. And they'll collect that information. What they don't know is what happens next."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/03/asio-cleared-of-unlawfully-luring-daniel-duggan-back-to-australia-agency-chief-mike-burgess-says

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2024/mar/03/mike-burgess-on-the-former-australian-politician-recruited-by-foreign-spies-australian-politics-podcast

#20510052 at 2024-03-03 08:14:11 (UTC+1)
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>>20493681
Traitor politician was in parliament when they 'sold out' Australia, spy agency reveals

Anna Henderson - 3 March 2024

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The mystery former politician who engaged in espionage for a foreign country was a serving member of an Australian parliament when they were recruited, SBS News can reveal.

The director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Mike Burgess originally outlined the bombshell spying case in his annual threat assessment on Wednesday.

He is refusing to reveal their identity, political party or whether they were a member of a federal, state or territory parliament.

But for the first time, in an interview with SBS News, Burgess has confirmed they were recruited to work for the international spy ring while representing voters and being paid by Australian taxpayers.

"This happened when they were a politician," Burgess said.

Burgess says the agency has blown the cover of the foreign intelligence unit - ASIO has codenamed it the A-Team - which was targeting Australians who had access to privileged information for several years.

The unit successfully recruited the politician.

ASIO has documented how the politician "sold out" their country, party and former colleagues to advance the interests of the foreign government.

The politician also proposed to connect the spies with a member of a prime minister's family. That plot did not go ahead.

Revealing former politician's name could spoil 'secret sauce'

The de-identified case has infuriated former politicians including Joe Hockey - formerly the nation's treasurer and previously Australia's US ambassador - who demanded the spy agency unmask the traitor to avoid speculation and the international perception Australia's former MPs and senators were compromised.

"People should be absolutely outraged and demand to know who this person was," Hockey said.

"Mr Burgess, having gone this far, must name that person rather than potentially smear everyone who has served their country."

Opposition leader Peter Dutton also warned if Burgess did not "indicate the name, then there's a cloud hanging over everybody else" telling 2GB they should be "outed and shamed".

But the ASIO chief is standing by his decision to keep the identity secret.

"I don't think I've smeared anyone. The objective was to raise awareness of interference in the political system. It looks like I've achieved that," he told SBS News.

"I can understand a view that it's in the public interest, but I don't agree with that."

He maintains taking that step could compromise future ASIO investigations.

"If I shared the details of who it was, they might figure out how I worked out who it was, or how my organisation (did) and that's our secret sauce, and I need to protect that."

Burgess said the politician was actively engaged before the 2018 foreign interference laws were passed in the federal parliament, and the activity was not a criminal offence at the time.

He said he didn't believe they would be "stupid enough" to repeat the behaviour.

"The matter is resolved now," he said.

"It's important those threats are explained to the people we protect. It's important that, actually, people recognise (the threat) so they can resist and report such overtures from foreign intelligence services. That was my objective."

He further maintains the vast majority of politicians are "thoroughly resistant" to this type of foreign interference.

Several intelligence experts believe the details strongly suggest the foreign country conducting the interference operation was China.

"No other power has quite the same capability and intent to influence Australian politics in this way," said the head of the National Security College at ANU Professor Rory Medcalf.

ASIO is refusing to confirm which country is responsible.

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Asked about these claims on Thursday, Mr Wong said he was trying to rebuild his life.

"Look, frankly, I have gone through a very difficult time. I just do my own legal practice,'' he said.

"My health has been very negatively impacted. I tried to recover (and live) as a normal Australian senior citizen. I'm over 60 now.

"I don't want to use the word paranoid, but I still think that there is a bit of misunderstanding on (ASIO's) part in how these community groups work in Australia.

"The groups are just like normal church groups. Of course, they're all from a country where they see themselves to be a part of their homeland.

"I think that's quite normal. I don't see any particular activities between them and the government."

"I've said enough about that. I just stand by what I have said in the (ICAC) inquiry,'' he said.

The former federal treasurer Joe Hockey said on Thursday it was "absurd" that an unnamed former politician who "sold out" to a foreign regime after being recruited by spies is able to "walk off into the sunset" without their name being revealed.

Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's son Alex told news.com.au on Thursday that he was the target of suspected Chinese agents over an infrastructure project, revealing he immediately rejected the approach and reported it to spy agencies.

Mr Turnbull has told news.com.au that while he did not definitively know if he was the family member ASIO chief Mike Burgess was referring to in his speech, his experience fits the sting outlined by the spy agency boss.

Describing the approach as "brazen", the activist and investor said he was contacted around 2017 when his father was Prime Minister, and he was offered equity in a company.

"It was just so brazen," Mr Turnbull told news.com.au.

"My reaction was to express no interest and forward the details immediately to the authorities."

Mr Turnbull said he was told that the group that approached him had links to a former NSW Labor state MP.

He said as an investor he was often approached while his father served as Prime Minister, and he was acutely aware of the potential issues and reported all suspicious contacts to Australia's intelligence services.

He warned that the approaches from overseas business players were "constant".

"Families need to have a contact to report these approaches to,'' he said.

"Inoculation is cheap and good".

The boss of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation revealed this week an alleged plot from "several years ago".

"The spies pose as consultants, headhunters, local government officials, academics and think tank researchers, claiming to be from fictional companies such as Data 31," Mr Burgess said.

"Most commonly, they offer their targets consulting opportunities, promising to pay thousands of dollars for reports on Australian trade, politics, economics, foreign policy, defence and security."

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/its-not-me-ernest-wong-speaks-out-after-spy-agency-claims/news-story/484663a1f919b464db733ff349b361da

#20493684 at 2024-02-29 08:14:06 (UTC+1)
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>>20493657
Joe Hockey calls for ASIO boss to name 'traitor' who betrayed Australia

Sky News Australia

Feb 29, 2024

Former treasurer Joe Hockey has called on ASIO's Director General Mike Burgess to name the "traitor" ex-politician who betrayed Australia by working with an international spy network.

Australia's spy chief delivered the agency's annual threat assessment on Wednesday night, including the shock details about the actions of an ex-politician.

Mr Burgess did not name the country involved in recruiting the representative but said he had decided to declassify the news as a way of warning their operatives their cover was blown.

"Of course he should say immediately who it is, not simply come out of the shadows, say this was a politician, then go back to the shadows and leave everyone else wondering who the hell it was," Mr Hockey told Sky News Australia.

Mr Hockey said it's a "heinous crime" for a representative of the nation "aiding and abetting" an enemy of Australia.

"Why didn't this person go to court? Why haven't they gone to jail? It's not good enough," he said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmV2Zgej4bg

#20493681 at 2024-02-29 08:11:11 (UTC+1)
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>>20493657
Former prime minister's son Alex Turnbull reveals contact with Chinese agents

Samantha Maiden - February 29, 2024

Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's son Alex has revealed he was the target of suspected Chinese agents over an infrastructure project, revealing he immediately rejected the approach and reported it to spy agencies.

Mr Turnbull has told news.com.au that while he did not definitively know if he was the family member ASIO chief Mike Burgess was referring to in his speech, his experience fits the sting outlined by the spy agency boss.

Describing the approach as "brazen", the activist and investor said he was contacted around 2017 when his father was Prime Minister, and he was offered equity in a company.

"It was just so brazen," Mr Turnbull told news.com.au. "My reaction was to express no interest and forward the details immediately to the authorities."

Mr Turnbull said he was told that the group that approached him had links to a former NSW Labor state MP.

He said as an investor he was often approached while his father served as Prime Minister, and he was acutely aware of the potential issues and reported all suspicious contacts to Australia's intelligence services.

He warned that the approaches from overseas business players were "constant".

"Families need to have a contact to report these approaches to,'' he said.

The boss of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation revealed this week an alleged plot from "several years ago".

"The spies pose as consultants, headhunters, local government officials, academics and think tank researchers, claiming to be from fictional companies such as Data 31," Mr Burgess said.

"Most commonly, they offer their targets consulting opportunities, promising to pay thousands of dollars for reports on Australian trade, politics, economics, foreign policy, defence and security."

Mr Burgess has described how the group successfully cultivated and recruited a former, but unnamed, Australian politician.

"This politician sold out their country, party and former colleagues to advance the interests of the foreign regime,'' he said.

"At one point, the former politician even proposed bringing a prime minister's family member into the spies' orbit. Fortunately that plot did not go ahead but other schemes did.

"Of course, we stopped it where we could given the means we had and that's our lot, now we're in a much better place with foreign interference laws."

But a furious Joe Hockey, the former treasurer and former ambassador to the United States, said it was unfair not to name the person because it smeared others.

"For a start, the former politician is a traitor. It wasn't an allegation by the head of our intelligence agency, it was a statement of fact," Mr Hockey told ABC Radio National.

"It is absolutely inconceivable that you would have a former politician representing their community, representing the country, who then goes and engages with a foreign adversary, and somehow they're allowed to walk off into the sunset without having their name or their reputation revealed.

"It makes us all question as representatives in the parliament who we can trust, who of our current and former colleagues can we trust? And that's ridiculous."

Defence Minister Richard Marles defended the decision not to name the retired politician.

"I respect what ASIO have done here in terms of putting this story into the public domain but also maintaining the confidentiality of the facts around this, and there could be a whole lot of reasons why that should happen," he said.

"We've got among the best agencies in the world dealing with this, the specific facts which underlie this scenario for good reason are not in the public domain."

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/former-prime-ministers-son-admits-contact-from-chinese-agents/news-story/d04189c9f824df3095ab93d2c234557b

#20493671 at 2024-02-29 08:03:37 (UTC+1)
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>>20493657
ASIO boss Mike Burgess won't bow to pressure to reveal which former politician 'sold out Australia'

The boss of Australia's spy agency has refused to unmask the identity of an ex-politician accused of selling out the nation.

Ellen Ransley and Eleanor Campbell - February 28, 2024

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The nation's top spy has called for calm, refusing to name names after dropping a bombshell that a former politician sold out Australia to foreign spies.

Mike Burgess used his annual threat assessment address on Wednesday night to reveal an ex-politician was recruited by a foreign intelligence service "several years ago" but declined to name them.

Former federal treasurer and ambassador to the US Joe Hockey said the claims had implicated hundreds of officials, and said Mr Burgess had a duty to every politician to reveal who it was.

"You can't make an allegation or a statement about someone being a traitor and then expect that no one will ask questions," Mr Hockey said on Wednesday.

Former Labor senator Sam Dastyari and former NSW state MP Ernest Wong both publicly denied they were the individual through media on Thursday, while former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull's son Alex revealed he was the target of suspected agents.

Mr Burgess doubled down on his decision not to name names late on Thursday, saying the case was an "historic matter" and the individual was "no longer of security concern".

"In accordance with longstanding practice, ASIO will not publicly discuss individuals or provide operational details," he said in a statement.

Defence Minister Richard Marles had earlier argued that publicly revealing the name of the alleged traitor would not be beneficial.

"I am not aware of the specific facts which underpin the scenario that Mike Burgess has outlined," he said on Thursday.

"I respect the reasons why that is important to be kept confidential ... but I think it is also really important that this story be put out in the public domain, which is what Mike Burgess has done, because, you know, those of us engaged in public life, we need to be really vigilant."

Opposition leader Peter Dutton had earlier said the accused individual should be "outed and shamed".

"I haven't been told [who it is]. Mike Burgess is as good as they get, he's a great head of the ASIO and he's really a first class operator," Mr Dutton told 2GB.

"It's pretty rough to essentially besmirch former politicians when he's talking about one and the trouble is if he doesn't indicate the name then there's a cloud hanging over everybody else."

Opposition home affairs spokesperson James Paterson said he had a "fair idea" of who the spy was but refused to speculate publicly.

He agreed with Mr Marles that the accused politician shouldn't be outed but said the person should face serious legal consequences.

"I think it would be unfair to name someone publicly and you would obviously be running a very serious defamation risk if you do so," he told reporters on Thursday.

"I think it would be very powerful and important if someone has betrayed their country, particularly someone who has the honour of representing their country in the parliament, that they face legal consequences and very serious ones for that.

"But the reality is the laws weren't there when this conduct occurred. That makes it very difficult."

Later, Opposition foreign affairs spokesperson Simon Birmingham demanded that the Albanese government provide "as much clarity of possible" about the reported betrayal citing significant public interest in the matter.

"That public interest deserves to be addressed, as transparently as possible, and Home Affairs should step forward and provide that information, as much of it as possible," he said.

Mr Burgess had used a major address on Wednesday evening to reveal that a dedicated unit within a foreign spy service is targeting Australia.

He said the "A-team" - a spy network operating within a "particular foreign intelligence service" - had come to be one of the most significant threats the agency was fighting against, speaking about them publicly because "we want the A-team to know its cover is blown".

Mr Burgess said the A-team trawled professional networking sites looking for Australians with access to high-level security, defence and risk information.

Mr Burgess said the team used "false, anglicised personas", posing as consultants, headhunters, officials, academics and researchers from fictional companies to approach the targets.

He said they had tried to recruit students, academics, business people, police and public servants across all levels of government.

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#20365452 at 2024-02-06 09:08:12 (UTC+1)
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How Donald Trump's election victory in November could shatter Australia-US relations

TROY BRAMSTON - FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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Australian ministers, public servants and diplomats are quietly assessing the implications of a Donald Trump presidential election victory in November.

While Trump's poll lead over Joe Biden in battleground states may not last, his return to the US presidency cannot be ruled out, and it has officials deeply concerned about what it would mean for the bilateral relationship.

Trump's single presidential term was a disaster for the US but also for traditional alliance partners and the standing of the great republic around the world. Trump did not and does not have a coherent foreign policy, was irrational and unpredictable, prone to snap judgments and policy reversals.

The future of the trilateral nuclear defence pact, AUKUS, is far from guaranteed despite what officials say. This is a Biden administration policy developed in partnership with Australia and the UK. Trump had no role in it and therefore has no fidelity to it. Some congressional Republicans remain lukewarm at best.

It is not certain Trump would stick with a US promise to sell to Australia Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines, share technology and personnel, and design and construct a new submarine for Australia. While the US congress passed enabling provisions for AUKUS, Trump could seek to terminate the deal.

Australian diplomats are working overtime to develop relationships with congressional Republicans and those close to Trump in the hope they can influence his thinking. In reality, Republicans in congress and those in the MAGA wing matter little as they take their cues from Trump, not the other way round.

The Albanese government is worried not only about AUKUS but the future of ANZUS. With his "America First" mantra, Trump showed no respect for longstanding alliances. He withdrew from the Paris climate accords and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, cosied up to dictators and autocrats, and weakened US prestige around the world.

If he returns to power, Trump wants to end US support for NATO, which requires congressional backing. He told EU officials the US would never defend NATO countries if under attack. MAGA Republicans want to end US military support for Ukraine, while Trump says he would force Volodymyr Zelensky to "make a deal" with Vladimir Putin's Russia. This means ceding Ukrainian territory to Russia.

In our region, longstanding defence partners South Korea and Japan are also reportedly concerned about a Trump presidency, given he has questioned continued US security and defence guarantees. Trump repeatedly praises Xi Jinping and, unlike Biden, has publicly doubted whether he would defend Taiwan if China sought to reclaim it by force.

In his first term, Trump wanted to impose tariffs on Australian exports and refused to honour a refugee deal reached with Barack Obama. Some clever diplomatic work by Malcolm Turnbull and ambassador Joe Hockey changed his mind. But there is unlikely to be any carve-outs for Australia next time because Trump is friends with Greg Norman.

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#20316869 at 2024-01-28 09:07:44 (UTC+1)
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>>20108573
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Kevin Rudd's embarrassing Trump U-turn as Albo's US Ambassador is made to eat his own words - with President's shock re-election victory now looming

MAX AITCHISON - 28 January 2024

He's branded Donald Trump 'nuts' and labelled him the 'most destructive president in history'.

But former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, now Australia's US ambassador, is desperately trying to build bridges with Trump's team ahead of the ex-President's possible re-election in November.

Mr Rudd reportedly told a Davos forum last week that there was 'some danger of overstating the degree of damage' Mr Trump caused during his presidency.

The remarkable U-turn comes after Mr Rudd has previously savaged the former Apprentice star's time in office.

'The most destructive president in history,' Mr Rudd wrote on X, formerly Twitter, in June 2020.

'He drags America and democracy through the mud. He thrives on fomenting, not healing, division.

'He abuses Christianity, church and bible to justify violence.'

In February 2022, a year before Anthony Albanese appointed him US ambassador, the former Labor leader accused Mr Trump of 'rancid treachery'.

'Donald Trump is a traitor to the West,' he wrote.

But with Trump now looking a shoo-in for the Republican nomination to face off against current US President Joe Biden in November, Mr Rudd has changed his tune.

Mr Rudd is now furiously back-pedalling on his strident position and has been cultivating relationships with senior Republican figures.

'These are fairly normal relationships and there's a broader set of Republican relationships... which I have accumulated over the decades, really, including a lot of people who have indicated to me privately that they'd go back to work in a Trump administration,' Mr Rudd told News Corp.

'In terms of the ability of the Australian government to manage the relationship with whoever wins the next election, Republican or Democrat, we are well equipped for that task.'

However, many political commentators believe Mr Rudd's time in Washington is limited and he will not survive a second Trump presidency.

Last week, Sky News host Andrew Bolt told the ambassador to 'get ready to pack your bags'.

'How could Rudd ask Trump for favours for Australia when that sensitive boaster will know how freely Rudd has smeared him around the world?', Mr Bolt wrote.

He accused Mr Rudd of having 'lousy judgement'.

'Fancy writing off Trump as a violent nutter and wrecker who was finished. That's a serious underestimation,' he wrote.

'No, Trump's rise must mean Rudd's fall. What a bad call by Albanese, appointing this joker.'

This view is reflected by Liberal Party Defence and National Security Policy Chair Lincoln Parker who told the network Mr Rudd will have to go if Mr Trump is re-elected because they go together like 'oil and water'.

'If the Australian government wants to communicate effectively with a Trump administration, they're going to have to find a new Australian Ambassador in Washington DC,' Mr Parker said.

'Kevin Rudd is going to have to go and maybe go back to the role he had at the Asia Society because that is not a good mix.'

But there are those who believe Mr Rudd will survive if Mr Trump re-enters the White House in November.

Joe Hockey, Australia's US ambassador during Mr Trump's presidency, told the Australian that Mr Rudd's tough stance on China will curry favour with a Republican administration.

'I think if Donald Trump is elected, on day one he will have a long list of people that he will want to seek vengeance against. And Kevin Rudd is not one of them,' Mr Hockey said.

'His credentials as a China hawk are going to be more important than criticism he had (of Mr Trump) previously and he has also been reaching out to all sides of the Republican Party, that's the truth of it.'

Perhaps in an oblique reference to how his past comments have come back to haunt him, Mr Rudd acknowledged that there are always 'going to be disagreements' between diplomats and administrations.

'That's the normal business of diplomacy. We usually just conduct them privately,' he told News Corp.

Mr Rudd said he was willing to meet Mr Trump but admitted he had not made a direct approach.

'The last thing you want to do as a candidate is waste your time with a bunch of well-meaning foreign diplomats,' he said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13014541/Kevin-Rudd-Donald-Trump-U-turn.html

https://twitter.com/mrkrudd/status/1267660205547900928

https://qanon.pub/#4396


>Predictable.
>This is not a game.
>These people are stupid.

#20311771 at 2024-01-27 12:57:29 (UTC+1)
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>>20311768

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How does Anthony Albanese build a relationship with Donald Trump? The two could not be less alike in ideology, political orientation, background and personality. That's beside the point. Both leaders have enough interests at stake to make the relationship work.

Albanese should read Tobias Harris's excellent autobiography of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, The Iconoclast, which details how Abe wooed Trump with multiple meetings, phone calls (16 in 2017 alone), endless golf games and the gift of a gold-coloured golf driver.

Abe copped political flack in Japan for appearing to flatter Trump, but his engagement worked. The Trump administration strengthened the "special relationship" with Japan, adopted Abe's "free and open Indo-Pacific" as a strategic organising concept and enabled Japan to play a stronger role on trade co-operation.

Albanese will need to put as much effort into Trump management as into engaging with Xi. His first move should be to meet Trump before the presidential election in November.

Albanese should convene an AUKUS management team comprising Scott Morrison, Joe Hockey (who famously golfed with Trump), Kevin Rudd and Stephen Smith, now High Commissioner in the UK.

This is an unashamedly bipartisan approach which runs counter to Labor's worst tribal instincts, but Morrison and Hockey will be critical factors in bringing Trump and the Republicans into alignment on AUKUS.

Albanese should go to Trump's Florida residence at Mar-a-Lago and hand over a gold-plated model of the future AUKUS submarine. Richard Marles should be there too, along with his golf clubs, and the both of them should putt for their country. The opposition needs to cut Albanese some slack on travel, gifts and golf and see the bigger picture.

Just as Shinzo Abe did, Marles should be pitching for a new strategic dialogue with whomever Trump picks as his vice-presidential running mate.

Rudd will already be relentlessly working Republican contacts in DC. That's essential because it will be Trump's future national security team that shapes the president on AUKUS, nuclear submarines and future technology.

Albanese needs to make sure that none of his frontbench or backbench colleagues makes smug remarks about Trump on social media. The Donald is remarkably thin-skinned and remembers those slights.

As important as these steps are, by far the most important thing Albanese needs to do is to start investing in Australia's current defence capability.

Trump is no fool. He will recognise our government's fraudulent practice of talking up future investment in AUKUS while starving today's ADF.

Our strategic outlook means there is no alternative to lifting defence spending. Notwithstanding the strength of brand Australia in Washington DC, Trump is fundamentally correct that we have coasted on America's security coat-tails by spending less than 2 per cent of GDP on defence for decades. Only a foolish Australian government would believe that amount covers our real security needs.

Defence funding needs to be lifted quickly through a combination of investment into Australian defence industrial capability and purchases of existing technology from current American production lines.

Trump will appreciate the investment, but don't think this is flattery, this is just what Australia needs to do for its own security.

Albanese should find a way to send a navy ship to the Red Sea and make it clear that by doing so a US navy vessel can be freed for other tasks.

And Albanese should reverse one of the dumbest decisions I have seen in Australian defence history - the one to cut up and bury a billion dollars' worth of ?Taipan helicopters.

We should spend what is needed to get the choppers working and send them to Ukraine. That will enable Albanese to tell Biden and Trump that Australia is genuinely doing the heavy lifting on a vital global security issue.

Trump is not my idea of what a president should be, but we have nothing to fear from him and a lot to gain if we would only take our own defence interests seriously.

That, and a little golf at Mar-a-Lago, will keep the alliance humming.

Peter Jennings is director of Strategic Analysis Australia and was executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute from 2012 to 2022. He is a former deputy secretary for strategy in the Defence Department (2009-2012).

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/will-donald-trump-sink-aukus-if-he-wins/news-story/3af7be2c3d39fb92281dc20b60280af9


>Enjoy the show.
>Expect a lot more.
>Panic.

#20300060 at 2024-01-25 12:02:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition

>>20108573
>>20294008
Kevin Rudd in rush to mend fences in case of second Donald Trump presidency

CAMERON STEWART - JANUARY 25, 2024

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Kevin Rudd is working overtime to build bridges with Trump Republicans who would be involved in a second Donald Trump presidency, despite his previous strident criticism of the former US president.

But Australia's most recent ambassadors in Washington, Joe Hockey and Arthur Sinodinos, believe the current incumbent would survive a second Trump White House.

Mr Rudd had in the past variously described Mr Trump over the years as "nuts", a traitor to the West, a threat to democracy, and as someone who pursues protectionism that retards global economic growth.

While these views were not outlandish among many political commentators at the time, they could become a potential liability for Mr Rudd and therefore the Albanese government if Mr Trump returns to the White House.

The question has become more relevant after Mr Trump barnstormed the New Hampshire primary this week, making him the all-but unbackable favourite for the Republican presidential nomination and an even-money bet, according to some polls, of defeating Joe Biden in November.

But Mr Hockey, Australia's US ambassador during Mr Trump's presidency, said Mr Rudd had worked to mend bridges with pro-Trump Republicans and those who would likely be involved in a second Trump White House.

He said that despite Mr Trump's thin-skinned response to criticism, he believed Mr Rudd's reputation in Washington as a hawk on China would also help him win favour with a Trump White House.

"I think if Donald Trump is elected, on day one he will have a long list of people that he will want to seek vengeance against. And Kevin Rudd is not one of them," Mr Hockey told The Australian.

"His credentials as a China hawk are going to be more important than criticism he had (of Mr Trump) previously and he has also been reaching out to all sides of the Republican Party, that's the truth of it," said Mr Hockey, a former Liberal minister and former political opponent of the twice Labor prime minister.

"He has been working hard to engage with the people that are likely to be around Trump, people like (former US trade representative Robert) Lighthizer, (former secretary of state Mike) Pompeo and (former national security advisor) Robert O'Brien - I know that because they've told me."

(continued)

#19785770 at 2023-10-23 09:23:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition

>>19785767

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Mr Albanese arrives in the US capital with congress in its third week of gridlock from Republican infighting that has left the House of Representatives without a Speaker since October 5.

Democratic congressman Joe Courtney, the co-chair of the Friends of Australia Caucus, said the infighting would likely prevent Mr Albanese from addressing congress."The majority party's inability to either settle on a Speaker or reach out to Democrats for a bipartisan path forward will likely prevent the Prime Minister from giving a joint address to the congress, which the Australian people deserve," he said.

The Australian understands Mr Albanese's arrival in Washington ahead of his visit to Beijing is not merely symbolic.

With US-China relations still tense, Mr Albanese will discuss his China visit with Mr Biden, US cabinet secretaries and other senior national security advisers to ensure he is fully briefed on Washington's positions ahead of meetings with Mr Xi and Mr Li in Beijing.

Meanwhile, the Albanese government's decision on Friday to allow Chinese company Landbridge to continue its lease over the Port of Darwin is understood to have shocked many in the nat?ional security community.

The decision, viewed as a deal with Beijing to win concessions on trade bans and secure a meeting with Mr Xi, was made without a press conference or any minister including Mr Albanese attaching their name to it.

Mr Albanese outsourced the announcement to his department.

The timing of his Beijing visit, which is coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Gough Whitlam's historic 1973 trip to China, has been viewed by some security ?figures as a concession to the ?Chinese Communist Party's ?legacy-?building "obsession with anni?versaries".

Former ambassador to the US Joe Hockey said America could request more help from Australia in relation to both Ukraine and Israel, following Mr Biden's request to congress last week for extra money for military aid and submarine production.

"There's always ask and give. Anthony Albanese will be at the coalface of discussions about the future of the Middle East - all the ceremony and warm embrace that everyone sees there obscures the important and many serious discussions," Mr Hockey told The Australian.

His successor in Washington, Arthur Sinodinos, said the Israel crisis could distract attention from the Australian visit. "The mood in Washington is very much preoccupation, particularly over the next few days, with what Israel will do," he said.

There were hopes Mr Biden's request for extra submarine funding would mollify Republican concerns about the capacity of the US industrial base to provide Australia with boats starting in the early 2030s, as agreed under the AUKUS pact.

But on Friday (Saturday AEDT), Republican senator Roger Wicker, who had held up earlier Senate moves to endorse the submarine transfers, said the Biden administration funding proposals were a "welcome start" and a "first step".

"There is still much work to be done with the administration and Pentagon to expand our industrial base and add the necessary attack submarines to prevent conflict on the seas, but this package signals a positive first step toward that goal," he added.

Former US ambassador to Australia Arthur Culvahouse told The Australian that legislative changes to support AUKUS were "always going to be difficult", recalling some of the difficulties he had when Australia purchased US F-35s. "It's one of the most entrenched bureaucracies in the US government," Mr Culvahouse said, referring to parts of the State Department that deal with technology transfer.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/anthony-albanese-to-lobby-us-congress-to-back-Joe-bidens-bill-for-aukus-israel-and-ukraine/news-story/6d49b29353dc6c99eb870c41e70dede9

#19679836 at 2023-10-06 16:34:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition

>>19505163
>>19679708
'It's on Wikipedia': Debate flares over Trump's submarine disclosures to Anthony Pratt

Matthew Knott and Chris Zappone - October 6, 2023

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Former prime ministers have distanced themselves from revelations that Donald Trump allegedly disclosed classified information about United States' submarines to Australian packaging mogul Anthony Pratt as debate flared about the national security implications of the alleged leak.

Pratt, the executive chairman of Visy Industries and Pratt Industries, is among more than 80 people whom prosecutors have identified as possible witnesses who could testify against the president at his classified documents trial.

The revelations about Trump's alleged indiscretion regarding sensitive national security information have revived fears among officials in Canberra about the volatile scenario they would face if Trump wins next year's presidential election.

Pratt allegedly spoke to Trump about nuclear-powered submarine technology during an April 2021 meeting, five months before the US, Australia and UK announced the formation of AUKUS, the defence pact under which Australia is set buy up to five Virginia-class submarines from the US.

According to America's ABC News, which broke the story, Pratt told Trump he believed Australia should start buying its submarines from the US.

Trump then allegedly told Pratt two pieces of information about US submarines: the supposed exact number of nuclear warheads they routinely carry, and exactly how close they supposedly can get to a Russian submarine without being detected.

It is alleged that Pratt relayed the information to "scores of others" including three former prime ministers, more than a dozen foreign officials, several employees, and a handful of journalists.

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said Pratt did not disclose the conversations to him.

"Trump did ask me in early 2017 why we were buying French rather than US subs," Turnbull said.

"I explained that it was important that they be a sovereign capability, and that we did not have the means at that stage to sustain and maintain nuclear-powered submarines ourselves."

Scott Morrison did not respond to request for comment, while Tony Abbott said: "I don't have any recollection of it."

Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham said that "the suggestion of such matters being aired in ways that breach national security undertakings is one that I'm sure US officials would take very seriously, and I would expect them to similarly in Australia".

Saying that members of Australia's national security committee of cabinet were expected to keep operational details secret "for the rest of our lives", Birmingham said nuclear-powered submarine secrets were among America's "most treasured" military assets.

"I'm sure many in the United States will take very, very seriously the suggestion that these types of technologies, and the capabilities associated with them, could be subject to discussions outside of those confined spaces," he told Sky News.

Joe Hockey, who served as Australia's ambassador to the US while Trump was in office, downplayed the seriousness of the alleged disclosures by saying: "At a national security level, there is nothing there that we haven't known for years or that you can't pull up on Wikipedia."

Hockey said that US and Australian troops already work on each other's submarines and there was significant sharing of sensitive military technology between the two nations.

The alleged conversation between Trump and Pratt did not carry implications for the security of the AUKUS pact, he said.

Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy said: "I will not comment about US domestic issues."

Michael Green, the chief executive of the University of Sydney's United States Studies Centre, said: "There is a clear pattern with former president Trump of treating sensitive information, and the intelligence community with real carelessness."

Green, a former senior official in George W Bush's White House, said there were many publicly available reports on the number of warheads stored on US nuclear submarines.

"Former president Trump is not exactly a fact checker," he said. "I'm not sure how to judge if serious damage was done or not. The most damaging thing is that this is such a pattern."

Richard Dunley, a naval historian at UNSW, struck a different tone, said: "Navies have always been very sensitive about this sort of thing."

For example, navies are still wary of disclosing information about submarine technology used during the Cold War.

Dunley said Trump's alleged indiscretion about sensitive military matters, rather than any specific information the Republican presidential frontrunner may have disclosed to Pratt, was the most troubling issue.

"You wouldn't necessarily know the line between fact and fiction," he added of Trump.

(continued)

#19679792 at 2023-10-06 16:25:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition

>>19505163
>>19679708
Donald Trump allegedly discussed US nuclear subs with Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt

BEN PACKHAM and ADAM CREIGHTON - OCTOBER 6, 2023

Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt has been identified as a ?potential witness against Donald Trump in his classified documents trial after he allegedly received ?secret information on US nuclear submarine capabilities from the former president.

America's ABC News reported that Mr Pratt was interviewed by prosecutors and FBI agents over the alleged 2021 disclosure by Mr Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.

The Pratt Industries and Visy boss reportedly said in the interviews that Mr Trump disclosed the exact number of nuclear warheads carried by US nuclear subs, and how close they could get to a Russian submarine without being detected.

Mr Pratt, whose office did not return calls on Friday, allegedly ?relayed details of the exchange to at least 45 people, including three former prime ministers, six journalists, 11 of his company's employees, and 10 Australian officials, ABC News reported.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott told The Weekend Australian that he had "no recollection of any such discussion" with Mr Pratt, while his successor, Malcolm Turnbull, said Mr Pratt did not speak to him about the matter.

Scott Morrison, who was close to Mr Pratt and was in office at the time of the alleged Trump disclosure, did not respond to inquiries. Anthony Albanese's office also ?declined to comment.

The Trump-Pratt conversation allegedly happened soon after Mr Trump's election defeat and about five months before the AUKUS pact was announced.

Prosecutors interviewed Mr Pratt as part of their classified documents case against the former president, and he is now among more than 80 people identified as possible witnesses who could testify in a trial beginning next May, The New York Times reported.

Mr Pratt reportedly told investigators that Mr Trump did not show him any classified documents. Prosecutors could use the Australian's evidence to argue the former president was reckless in his handling of classified information.

Mr Trump's alleged disclosure came after Mr Pratt declared to the former president that Australia should buy US submarines, prompting Mr Trump to "lean in" to share the information, ABC News reported.

The Weekend Australian is not suggesting that Mr Pratt knowingly shared any potentially illegal or sensitive information.

Former Australian ambassador to the US Joe Hockey sought to play down the revelations in a comment to The New York Times. "If that's all that was discussed, we already know all that," Mr Hockey said.

"We have had Australians serving with Americans on US submarines for years, and we share the same technology and the same weapons as the US Navy."

Mr Turnbull told The Guardian: "Trump did ask me in early 2017 why we were buying French rather than US subs.

"I explained it was important that they be a sovereign capability and we did not have the means at that stage to sustain and maintain nuclear-powered submarines ourselves."

The alleged disclosure was not included in the June indictment of Mr Trump, which charged the former president with 40 counts of unlawful retention of national ?defence information and obstruction-related offences.

The 77-year-old Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is ?accused of taking hundreds of classified government documents to his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.

Under the AUKUS deal reached between the Australian, UK and US governments, Australia will be ?provided with nuclear-powered ?attack submarines in the 2030s. They will not carry any ?nuclear warheads.

ABC News reported a former Mar-a-Lago employee, who was close to the Trump-Pratt conversation, told investigators the businessman had told others "within minutes" what the former president had just said.

The staff member told investigators he was "bothered" and "shocked" to hear that Mr Trump had provided such seemingly sensitive information to a non-US citizen in such a cavalier fashion.

The Biden administration cut Mr Trump out of intelligence briefings that former presidents traditionally receive when they leave office, following his role in the January 6 Capitol Hill riots and concerns over his discretion.

Mr Trump and Mr Pratt developed a close relationship throughout the former's presidency, especially after Mr Pratt pledged to invest $US2bn in American manufacturing in 2017.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/donald-trump-allegedly-discussed-us-nuclear-subs-with-australian-billionaire-anthony-pratt/news-story/fa20fc237e6ee820955f802a0c81026b

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRVwqcPMjLQ

#19679775 at 2023-10-06 16:22:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition

>>19505163
>>19679708
Donald Trump accused of sharing nuclear submarine details with Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt

Jade Macmillan - 6 October 2023

Former US president Donald Trump reportedly discussed "potentially sensitive" details of America's nuclear submarine program with an Australian billionaire.

The American ABC news outlet reported that Mr Trump told Anthony Pratt the supposed number of nuclear warheads on US subs, and how close they could get to a Russian submarine without being detected.

The conversation is said to have taken place at Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, several months after he left office.

ABC - which is not affiliated with ABC in Australia - also reported that Mr Pratt allegedly then shared the information with at least 45 people, including journalists and employees, as well as 10 Australian officials and three former prime ministers.

The alleged conversation with Mr Pratt was not mentioned by federal prosecutors when they charged Mr Trump with mishandling classified documents this year.

However, ABC reported that Mr Pratt had been interviewed on the matter at least twice, and that he told investigators he was not sure if the information was accurate.

The New York Times said the businessman was among dozens of people identified as possible witnesses who could testify against the former president at trial.

A spokesman for Mr Trump criticised what they described as "illegal leaks" that lacked "proper context and relevant information".

"The Department of Justice should investigate the criminal leaking, instead of perpetrating their baseless witch-hunts while knowing that President Trump did nothing wrong, has always insisted on truth and transparency, and acted in a proper manner, according to the law," the spokesman said.

A response has been sought from Mr Pratt, and the ABC is not suggesting he has done anything wrong.

The office of special counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting Mr Trump, declined to comment.

AUKUS deal not part of conversation, shadow foreign minister says

Anthony Pratt runs Pratt Industries/Visy, which its website says is the "world's largest privately owned packaging, paper and recycling company".

He was praised by Donald Trump as "the most successful man in Australia" during a visit to a Pratt Industries plant in Ohio in 2019.

"He [Mr Pratt] said I'm going to come here and I'm going to spend $10 billion if you win the election," Mr Trump said at the time.

ABC News reported that Mr Trump's comments in the April 2021 conversation came after Mr Pratt suggested Australia should start buying submarines from the US.

The AUKUS deal, under which Australia will obtain nuclear-powered - but not nuclear-armed - subs was announced by Mr Trump's successor Joe Biden about five months later.

But Shadow Foreign Minister Simon Birmingham said Mr Trump would not have been aware of the discussions taking place behind the scenes.

"It's important we keep a clear distinction between AUKUS and these investigations by US authorities," he said.

"Ultimately AUKUS was an agreement struck with the Biden administration, through discussions between Scott Morrison and Joe Biden, as well as [former UK prime minister] Boris Johnson.

"They were discussions had with the utmost of secrecy applied to them, and those confidences were kept."

He said these were the "most sensitive of US defence technologies and capabilities".

"Therefore it is critically important that the sensitivities and secrecy associated with these capabilities be maintained and respected at all times."

Former Australian ambassador to the US Joe Hockey played down the significance of the alleged conversation.

"Australian submariners have been serving on US submarines for years," he said in a statement.

"Similarly US naval personnel have been on our ships. It's a fully integrated partnership. The combat system on the US subs and Australian subs is a joint program. Similarly we share weapons technology.

"If the conversation between Trump and Pratt is as reported there has been nothing said that we all did not know."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-06/donald-trump-allegedly-discussed-nuclear-subs-with-anthony-pratt/102943844

#19487483 at 2023-09-04 09:53:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition

#31 - Part 4
Australian Politics and Society - Part 4
>>19257385 Video: QAnon-link film gets local release - "Sound of Freedom, a micro-budget independent film with links to QAnon that became an unlikely box office hit in America, will be released in Australia in August. The film, made on a budget of $US14.5 million ($21.6 million), has taken in an astonishing $US130 million ($191 million) at the box office since its opening on July 4th. Sound of Freedom stars Jim Caviezel as Tim Ballard, a former federal agent who founded the anti-trafficking organisation Operation Underground Railroad. It follows his mission through Colombia to save a girl from child traffickers. During the Trump presidency, Ballard co-chaired a council established to guide federal anti-trafficking policymaking." - Geordie Gray - theaustralian.com.au
>>19257385 Q Post #3635 - Sometimes a good 'movie' can provide a lot of truth and/or background. 'Official Secrets.' Relevant today? Enjoy the show! - Q - https://qanon.pub/#3635
>>19262419 Secret space deal agreed to in AUSMIN talks as US green lights missile production in Australia - The US and Australia will embark on a secret new space partnership amid Chinese technological leaps that threaten US supremacy in the key military domain. The initiative, which is likely to include the development of offensive space-based capabilities, was agreed at AUSMIN talks in Brisbane, where the US also vowed to help Australia to produce advanced new missile systems within three years. US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with their Australian counterparts Richard Marles and Penny Wong on Saturday, declaring "enhanced space cooperation" a new priority for the nations' "unbreakable alliance".
>>19267311 Anti-fascist protesters rally outside neo-Nazi weightlifting event - Police stopped anti-fascism protesters from clashing with a group of neo-Nazis holding a "white powerlifting competition" at a boxing gym in Melbourne's west on Saturday. Dozens of anti-fascism protesters marched to the Legacy Boxing Gym in Sunshine West, walking down Industrial Drive just before 3pm chanting "unite, unite, unite to fight the right", before calling on the white supremacists to face them in the street. The neo-Nazi group waved at the protesters and performed Sieg Heil salutes from behind a fence, but did not leave the gym - previously linked to far-right groups - while demonstrators were outside.
>>19272527 US military analysts to embed in Australia's defence department to monitor regional threats in wake of AUSMIN talks - American military analysts will soon be sent to work at the Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO) in Canberra as both allies intensify joint efforts to scrutinise the moves of states like China, Russia and North Korea in the region. The US and Australia announced that they would establish a "Combined Intelligence Centre --- Australia" within the DIO by next year, saying the new entity would "enhance long-standing intelligence cooperation".
>>19272789 New dates revealed for Donald Trump Jr's Australian tour after visa fracas - Donald Trump Jnr will hit Australian shores in September, with the political firebrand to touch down following a visa fracas which led to his string of shows being postponed. New dates for the son of former US President Donald Trump have been released including shows in Brisbane (September 25), Melbourne (September 26) and Sydney (September 27). Guests are set to include former British politician Nigel Farage and conservative South Australian Liberal Senator Alex Antic. It comes after a visa stoush delayed Trump Jnr's initial Australian tour dates set down for July.
>>19290208 Joe Hockey's 'Trump whisperer' predicts the Don's likely return - The former deputy chief of staff to Donald Trump says "there's a very big chance" he will be re-elected US president next year, but that Australia and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have nothing to fear. Emma Doyle, who worked for Mr Trump between 2018 and 2020, now works for Australia's former ambassador to the US Joe Hockey and his advisory Bondi Partners, where she is privately dubbed "the Trump whisperer". Ms Doyle said the key to surviving under the former president was "not going to work every day afraid of being fired. If you get fired, you get fired." "I was always very direct, never threw people under the bus and would say: 'we've looked at this six different ways and here are two options'."

#19487330 at 2023-09-04 08:43:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition

#31 - Part 4
Australian Politics and Society - Part 4
>>19257385 Video: QAnon-link film gets local release - "Sound of Freedom, a micro-budget independent film with links to QAnon that became an unlikely box office hit in America, will be released in Australia in August. The film, made on a budget of $US14.5 million ($21.6 million), has taken in an astonishing $US130 million ($191 million) at the box office since its opening on July 4th. Sound of Freedom stars Jim Caviezel as Tim Ballard, a former federal agent who founded the anti-trafficking organisation Operation Underground Railroad. It follows his mission through Colombia to save a girl from child traffickers. During the Trump presidency, Ballard co-chaired a council established to guide federal anti-trafficking policymaking." - Geordie Gray - theaustralian.com.au
>>19257385 Q Post #3635 - Sometimes a good 'movie' can provide a lot of truth and/or background. 'Official Secrets.' Relevant today? Enjoy the show! - Q - https://qanon.pub/#3635
>>19262419 Secret space deal agreed to in AUSMIN talks as US green lights missile production in Australia - The US and Australia will embark on a secret new space partnership amid Chinese technological leaps that threaten US supremacy in the key military domain. The initiative, which is likely to include the development of offensive space-based capabilities, was agreed at AUSMIN talks in Brisbane, where the US also vowed to help Australia to produce advanced new missile systems within three years. US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with their Australian counterparts Richard Marles and Penny Wong on Saturday, declaring "enhanced space cooperation" a new priority for the nations' "unbreakable alliance".
>>19267311 Anti-fascist protesters rally outside neo-Nazi weightlifting event - Police stopped anti-fascism protesters from clashing with a group of neo-Nazis holding a "white powerlifting competition" at a boxing gym in Melbourne's west on Saturday. Dozens of anti-fascism protesters marched to the Legacy Boxing Gym in Sunshine West, walking down Industrial Drive just before 3pm chanting "unite, unite, unite to fight the right", before calling on the white supremacists to face them in the street. The neo-Nazi group waved at the protesters and performed Sieg Heil salutes from behind a fence, but did not leave the gym - previously linked to far-right groups - while demonstrators were outside.
>>19272527 US military analysts to embed in Australia's defence department to monitor regional threats in wake of AUSMIN talks - American military analysts will soon be sent to work at the Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO) in Canberra as both allies intensify joint efforts to scrutinise the moves of states like China, Russia and North Korea in the region. The US and Australia announced that they would establish a "Combined Intelligence Centre — Australia" within the DIO by next year, saying the new entity would "enhance long-standing intelligence cooperation".
>>19272789 New dates revealed for Donald Trump Jr's Australian tour after visa fracas - Donald Trump Jnr will hit Australian shores in September, with the political firebrand to touch down following a visa fracas which led to his string of shows being postponed. New dates for the son of former US President Donald Trump have been released including shows in Brisbane (September 25), Melbourne (September 26) and Sydney (September 27). Guests are set to include former British politician Nigel Farage and conservative South Australian Liberal Senator Alex Antic. It comes after a visa stoush delayed Trump Jnr's initial Australian tour dates set down for July.
>>19290208 Joe Hockey's 'Trump whisperer' predicts the Don's likely return - The former deputy chief of staff to Donald Trump says "there's a very big chance" he will be re-elected US president next year, but that Australia and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have nothing to fear. Emma Doyle, who worked for Mr Trump between 2018 and 2020, now works for Australia's former ambassador to the US Joe Hockey and his advisory Bondi Partners, where she is privately dubbed "the Trump whisperer". Ms Doyle said the key to surviving under the former president was "not going to work every day afraid of being fired. If you get fired, you get fired." "I was always very direct, never threw people under the bus and would say: 'we've looked at this six different ways and here are two options'."

#19290208 at 2023-08-03 12:31:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition

Joe Hockey's 'Trump whisperer' predicts the Don's likely return

The former deputy chief of staff to Donald Trump says "there's a very big chance" he will be re-elected, but Australia has nothing to fear.

Patrick Durkin - Aug 3, 2023

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The former deputy chief of staff to Donald Trump says "there's a very big chance" he will be re-elected US president next year, but that Australia and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have nothing to fear.

Emma Doyle, who worked for Mr Trump between 2018 and 2020, now works for Australia's former ambassador to the US Joe Hockey and his advisory Bondi Partners, where she is privately dubbed "the Trump whisperer".

Ms Doyle said the key to surviving under the former president was "not going to work every day afraid of being fired. If you get fired, you get fired."

"I was always very direct, never threw people under the bus and would say: 'we've looked at this six different ways and here are two options'."

Ms Doyle was in Melbourne with Mr Hockey for a private dinner with clients on Thursday night to discuss opportunities for Australian energy companies through the Inflation Reduction Act.

She told The Australian Financial Review that while Mr Trump's indictment would be a factor in the polls, US President Joe Biden's health and the economy would also be key.

"If the primary were tomorrow [Mr Trump] would win," she said. "The polling shows he's dominating the Republican primary, he's neck and neck with Biden, but a big part of our election is always turnout."

Ms Doyle agreed with others that while mounting criminal proceedings could consume Mr Trump's campaign funds, the former president could also leverage them for political benefit.

"He said in 2016 that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters, they are that loyal," she said. But she conceded the timing of any proceedings in the lead-up to Super Tuesday on March 5 next year was also important.

The 80-year-old President Biden has announced he will run again in 2024 but "people are concerned about Biden's age, and his age is becoming visible in increasing ways", Ms Doyle said.

She said if Mr Biden did have to step aside, Vice President Kamala Harris would "probably not" secure the nomination and "the Democrats would have to scramble and then it's anyone's game".

But the 35-year-old Washington insider predicted the US economy would be among the biggest factors for voters. US markets fell this week after ratings agency Fitch downgraded US debt from a AAA rating to AA+.

"A lot turns on the economy," she said. "The economy feels somewhat better but crime feels worse. There's a sense things are getting back to normal but they still don't feel good.

"Our elections tend to be very emotionally driven. How do you feel? Do you feel like you're better off than you were four years ago?"

(continued)

#16701725 at 2022-07-10 01:21:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research Australia #25: My Koala Hates Spam Too Edition

#23 and #24 - Part 15
Julian Assange Indictment and Extradition - Part 2
>>16480350 Australian PM Refuses to Publicly Intervene in Julian Assange's Extradition to the US
>>16482064 Julian Assange's brother, Gabriel Shipton, urges Anthony Albanese to publicly condemn US extradition
>>16482074 Video: Julian Assange's brother urges Anthony Albanese to publicly condemn US extradition | 7.30 - ABC News (Australia)
>>16482092 Transcript - Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin's Regular Press Conference on June 20, 2022
>>16487945 Government right to avoid megaphone diplomacy on Assange, Australia's former United States ambassador Joe Hockey says
>>16487968 Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says his country would 'open its doors to Julian Assange' - Mexico's President says he will ask US President Joe Biden to address WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's case when the two men meet in July
>>16487997 Assange critic says detained WikiLeaks founder isn't Albanese government's 'only priority' - Lowy Institute executive director Michael Fullilove, a prominent Australian critic of Julian Assange has issued a fresh warning about the detained WikiLeaks founder
>>16493320 Outcry for Assange oddly absent for those held by China, Australian journalist Cheng Lei and Dr Yang Hengjun - Justin Bassi, Executive Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute - theaustralian.com.au

>>16513602 Video: Albanese should be 'picking up the phone' to get Julian Assange home: Academic Dr Kylie Moore Gilbert, who was held in an Iranian prison for 804 days - Sky News Australia
>>16563871 Anthony Albanese tells NATO leaders his government is "not afraid to stand up" against threats to peace and freedom, whether in Europe or the Indo-Pacific, as the military alliance upgrades its 10-year strategic framework to include the challenge posed by China
>>16580007 Julian Assange submits High Court appeal to fight extradition
>>16580030 Video: The CIA Plot to Kill My Husband Julian Assange | Stella Assange - Julian Assange's wife on the CIA plot to kill her husband for exposing war crimes & fight to save his life - Double Down News
>>16580052 Stella Assange Tweet: Video: "Have you allowed yourself to think what happens next should you be successful at some point?" #FreeAssangeNOW #Assange
>>16580052 >Can you see clearly? >What do you notice?
>>16586778 Hundreds of people gather in Melbourne's CBD to mark the birthday of Julian Assange

#16655181 at 2022-07-07 08:42:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #24: TRUMP CARD COMING Edition

#23 - Part 14
Julian Assange Indictment and Extradition - Part 2
>>16480350 Australian PM Refuses to Publicly Intervene in Julian Assange's Extradition to the US
>>16482064 Julian Assange's brother, Gabriel Shipton, urges Anthony Albanese to publicly condemn US extradition
>>16482074 Video: Julian Assange's brother urges Anthony Albanese to publicly condemn US extradition | 7.30 - ABC News (Australia)
>>16482092 Transcript - Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin's Regular Press Conference on June 20, 2022
>>16487945 Government right to avoid megaphone diplomacy on Assange, Australia's former United States ambassador Joe Hockey says
>>16487968 Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says his country would 'open its doors to Julian Assange' - Mexico's President says he will ask US President Joe Biden to address WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's case when the two men meet in July
>>16487997 Assange critic says detained WikiLeaks founder isn't Albanese government's 'only priority' - Lowy Institute executive director Michael Fullilove, a prominent Australian critic of Julian Assange has issued a fresh warning about the detained WikiLeaks founder
>>16493320 Outcry for Assange oddly absent for those held by China, Australian journalist Cheng Lei and Dr Yang Hengjun - Justin Bassi, Executive Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute - theaustralian.com.au

>>16513602 Video: Albanese should be 'picking up the phone' to get Julian Assange home: Academic Dr Kylie Moore Gilbert, who was held in an Iranian prison for 804 days - Sky News Australia
>>16563871 Anthony Albanese tells NATO leaders his government is "not afraid to stand up" against threats to peace and freedom, whether in Europe or the Indo-Pacific, as the military alliance upgrades its 10-year strategic framework to include the challenge posed by China
>>16580007 Julian Assange submits High Court appeal to fight extradition
>>16580030 Video: The CIA Plot to Kill My Husband Julian Assange | Stella Assange - Julian Assange's wife on the CIA plot to kill her husband for exposing war crimes & fight to save his life - Double Down News
>>16580052 Stella Assange Tweet: Video: "Have you allowed yourself to think what happens next should you be successful at some point?" #FreeAssangeNOW #Assange
>>16580052 >Can you see clearly? >What do you notice?
>>16586778 Hundreds of people gather in Melbourne's CBD to mark the birthday of Julian Assange

#16487945 at 2022-06-22 12:28:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition

>>16460849
Government right to avoid megaphone diplomacy on Assange, Joe Hockey says

Matthew Knott and Katina Curtis - June 22, 2022

Australia's former United States ambassador Joe Hockey says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is wise not to engage in "megaphone diplomacy" in a bid to persuade the Biden administration to drop espionage charges against Julian Assange.

The federal government's behind-the-scenes efforts to secure the WikiLeaks founder's freedom have divided the Coalition, with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton arguing Australia should let the US legal process play out without trying to influence the outcome.

Former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce disagreed, saying that allowing Assange to be extradited to the US would set a dangerous precedent.

Hockey, who served as Australia's US ambassador from 2016 to 2020, said Australians should not underestimate how sensitive the Assange issue is with both Democrats and Republicans in Washington.

"Megaphone diplomacy doesn't work well at all with the US," Hockey said.

Asked about the government's strategy of lobbying the Biden administration privately to secure an outcome, he said: "This judgment is right."

Herve Lemahieu, an expert in diplomacy at the Lowy Institute think tank, agreed, saying: "Once you pick up the megaphone it could backfire and have the unintended consequence of hardening the existing positions of the US or UK.

"The government will have to exert all options in terms of backroom diplomacy before it escalates the requests in the public sphere … This is definitely a sensitive issue."

The British government has ordered Assange be extradited to the US to face charges relating to the theft and publication of secret diplomatic cables a decade ago.

If convicted, Assange could face decades in jail.

Dutton said on Tuesday the government should provide regular consular assistance to Assange but not otherwise seek to intervene in his case.

"I think people should conduct themselves according to the law and I think they should be answerable to their conduct according to the law," he told 2GB.

"We're not talking about a country where they don't have a developed legal system."

Dutton said that in a similar situation, Australia would expect to let its own legal system operate "without international interference".

"I think Mr Assange has protracted this particular issue for years and years and years through his own conduct," he said.

Joyce said he believed Assange was a "total ratbag" but he should not be extradited to the US because he was not in the country when he was accused of breaching the Espionage Act.

"I am talking about this on the premise of principle," he said. "That is, if we believe that it is right to stand back and let an Australian citizen be extradited to a third country of which they are neither citizen nor were they there when an offence was committed, where are we going to draw the line?"

Joyce, who first spoke out against extraditing Assange last year, urged the government to be more transparent about what it wanted from the Biden administration.

"You've told us you're talking behind the scenes. So you might as well tell us what you're talking about," he said.

Walkleys Foundation chair Adele Ferguson, an investigative journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, said Assange had been languishing for years and it was time for him to be brought home.

"Press freedom and human rights are vital to our society and what is happening sets a very dangerous precedent at a time when press freedom in this country is being chipped away," she said. "This is the time for the government to stand up for press freedom."

https://www.smh.com.au/national/government-right-to-avoid-megaphone-diplomacy-on-assange-Joe-Hockey-says-20220621-p5avdk.html

#16443830 at 2022-06-14 10:29:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition

The defence deal between Lynas and the US speaks of the highest level of commercial trust

TICKY FULLERTON - JUNE 14, 2022

The US Defense Department's decision to award Australia's Lynas the job of building a heavy rare earths facility in Texas is a watershed moment for supply chain security.

It speaks to the highest level of commercial trust within the US-Australia alliance.

This contract, four years in the making, is a triumph for Lynas chief executive Amanda Lacaze. The $US120m ($172m) from the DoD will fund the new plant in full.

When operational in 2025 the plant will go a long way to correcting the West's highly precarious supply chain position. Rare earths are a vital ingredient in future facing technologies - from renewables to defence weaponry.

Staggeringly, since the Mountain Pass mine became defunct in 2002, the US has been without rare earths separation capability.

"It signals the opportunity to commence redevelopment of a rare earths supply chain in the US," says Lacaze. "This is really significant because heavies are not able to be separated outside China and you cannot have a high performance magnets without a small proportion of heavy rare earths."

Lacaze says Lynas won the contract for two reasons: first, its proven performance in separating and finishing light rare earths at its plant in Malaysia. The company will send some its top operations people to Texas.

The second reason is that Lynas has guaranteed feedstock in the huge Mount Weld mine in Western Australia, a body rich in rare earths.

Despite reports that America First manufacturing might get in the way of Lynas ambitions, Lacaze says the DoD's Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment program sees allies as part of the US defence industrial base.

She says Lynas benefited from high level focus on both sides of the Pacific including Arthur Sinodinos as Australia's Ambassador in Washington, former deputy mission head in Washington DC, Katrina Cooper, as well as former ambassador Joe Hockey.

At the corporate level the focus was on securing Lynas's intellectual property under the contract.

"Whilst it is great for our shareholders that this is funded off the US government, not our own balance sheet, at the same time our shareholders don't want us to be sacrificing the crown jewels which is the IP that we have developed," says Lacaze.

The stars are aligning for Lynas, which has strong ties with Japan going back over a decade. After Japan and China fell out over island politics in 2010, China cut off its rare earth supply. Japan responded by diversifying away from China and funding Lynas.

Lacaze says the relationship with the Japanese government, which now has the backdrop of the Quad Leaders dialogue, remains very strong.

"We continue to work with them on further opportunities to develop our relationships and the quality of the supply chain. We have to find ways to increase production. That means we need new facilities, we need to invest in our facilities, we even need to invest in exploration at Mount Weld so we can increase production and still sustain a long mine life," she says.

In the last five weeks, Lacaze has spent four nights in her own bed - all part of the rich tapestry of the company's growth program, she says.

In Kalgoorlie, where Lynas is building a new processing plant, the last part of the kiln shell was lifted into place on Friday. Lacaze has a good relationship with new Resources Minister Madeleine King, who was on site for the sod turning ceremony.

And in Malaysia, Lacaze says the operation is truly hitting its straps and she stresses the ongoing importance of the operation.

"As we seek to grow, throughput in Malaysia remains part of the plan. Any time you are developing brownfield rather than greenfield, you can pick up capacity faster."

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/the-defence-deal-between-lynas-and-the-us-speaks-of-the-highest-level-of-commercial-trust/news-story/14b746161c322de1b19912d7c616fc06

#16390593 at 2022-06-03 13:08:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition

>>16390587

2/2

Ms Carr, who started Bubs 17 years ago, called this week's formula deal a "game changer" for the small company, which is facing one of its biggest logistical challenges.

While it had promised it could deliver 1.25 million tins of formula, the question was how it would transport them to the US.

As Bubs was scrambling to find a plane big enough, the first 500,000 tins were packaged and ready to go.

Mr Lin had just returned from six months in the US and seen first-hand the empty shelves and the size of the problem.

"Just for the first 500,000 tins we are talking about five fully loaded 747 cargo planes that are needed, which is very challenging with the current supply chain issues," Mr Lin said.

Forget commercial flights or even a US military transport Hercules Aircraft, which could carry up to 173 pallets - about 54,430 tins.

One Boeing 747-400 F cargo plane can carry just shy of 300 pallets. This aircraft will be provided by the White House to carry stock from Melbourne to Pennsylvania and California, beginning next week, in an attempt to speed up the replenishment.

After the tins arrive at Tullamarine Airport, staff from Bubs and Kiwi logistics player Mainfreight will have to load them onto the plane, a process that will take two days. Bubs has to organise distribution centres on the other end that have capacity to hold this amount of stock.

Once the plane lands in the US, Bubs must unload and repack the stock onto American pallets. Mr Lin said the distribution had to be linked with Bubs and with retailers such as Walmart and Target, which will put the product on their shelves. The bar codes for each product will need to be added to the systems of each retailer.

Bubs is shipping over six formulations across its goat, organic grass-fed cow and its A2 beta-casein protein formula ranges.

This flight will bring 4.6 million bottles of formula and pave the way for up to 27.5 million total bottles of Bubs formula to be supplied to American families in the weeks ahead.

After the invitation to the White House roundtable, hair and make-up artists arrived at the Bubs factory in the middle of the night on Wednesday. There was a technical rehearsal at 2.45am on a secure Zoom line.

Mr Biden had a late start, but Ms Carr was on standby from 4.10am. She was sitting in the Bubs warehouse surrounded by millions of tins as the temperature sank to 5 degrees. She could not give the presentation from inside the factory because of the noise. The session started at 4.45am.

Bondi Partners co-founder and former US ambassador Joe Hockey was watching from Washington DC. He had been advising Bubs, with support from US ambassador Arthur Sinodinos.

Mr Lin said this fast-moving situation was different to the past 2? years of the pandemic and supply chain issues, which led to huge volatility and unpredictability.

"With all the challenges which have been thrown, we learnt from all that. Now it's about problem-solving every day," he said.

Bubs has to continue to serve its other markets, including Australian customers such as Woolworths and Chemist Warehouse, during the day, then turn to the US market at night.

"It's like Mission Impossible every single night," Mr Lin said.

https://www.afr.com/companies/manufacturing/inside-bubs-us-formula-mission-and-the-call-with-potus-20220601-p5aqcq

#16278239 at 2022-05-15 08:58:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #22: THIS IS NOT ANOTHER 3-YEAR ELECTION Edition

>>16278237

2/2

Labor housing spokesman Jason Clare dismissed the plan on the grounds it would throw "fuel on the fire" of the housing market by giving buyers more money and therefore driving up prices.

Industry Super Australia chief executive Bernie Dean mounted a similar argument by estimating the use of super savings would drive up property prices by 16 per cent in Sydney, 9 per cent in Melbourne, 8 per cent in Brisbane and 14 per cent in Perth.

Morrison said the policy will allow first home buyers to invest "a responsible portion" of their own super into their own home.

"You can already use your super to purchase an investment property. But not your own home. Other countries such as New Zealand and Canada also have policies that allow people to use their retirement savings to help them buy their home. And under a Morrison government you will be able to do that," he said.

The Super Home Buyer Scheme will start by July 2023 and will not be restricted by price caps on the income someone can earn or the value of the property they wish to buy.

It can only be used by people who are buying their first home, have saved at least 5 per cent of the deposit and will live in the home at least one year.

The buyers must apply to the Australian Tax Office for approval and can withdraw up to 40 per cent of their super funds, up to a maximum of $50,000, for the home deposit.

If they sell the home, they must return the cash to their super funds along with a share of the capital gains.

It will be able to be used alongside the Home Guarantee Scheme and the First Home Super Saver Scheme as well as a policy also unveiled on Sunday to allow all Australians over the age of 55 to "downsize" their homes and put up to $300,000 from the proceeds, per person, into their super funds outside the existing super contribution caps.

The downsizing policy creates an incentive for people to sell large homes as they age, potentially increasing supply for younger buyers, but it does not force any sale. Albanese said Labor would match the policy.

The idea of using super for housing has been pushed by Coalition backbenchers including Tim Wilson, the member for Goldstein, and Liberal senator for NSW Andrew Bragg, as well as a suggestion about the change in 2015 from Joe Hockey as treasurer.

Housing Industry Association managing director Graham Wolfe welcomed the scheme on the basis that access to a deposit was the biggest obstacle for Australians trying to buy their first home.

"This scheme builds on the many positive home ownership schemes now in place to support first home buyers achieving their aspiration to own a home," he said.

But the Financial Services Council, which represents retail super funds, warned the move would undermine retirement savings.

"The FSC is concerned the government's proposal weakens the sole purpose of superannuation, which is to provide higher standards of living in retirement," chief executive Blake Briggs said.

"The government has an obligation to do more to boost supply, otherwise unleashing superannuation savings on the housing market risks driving prices higher still."

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/first-home-buyers-could-use-superannuation-under-coalition-government-20220515-p5alh3.html

#15968687 at 2022-03-29 08:23:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #21: MIL-CIV ALLIANCE Edition

Joe Biden acclaims 'essential' ANZUS

BEN PACKHAM - MARCH 29, 2022

Scott Morrison has marked the 70th anniversary of the ANZUS Alliance by announcing a cyber and critical technology centre to be established within the nation's peak intelligence ?assessment agency to deploy cutting-edge technologies to protect Australia's security.

The Prime Minister announced the new centre at a dinner to mark the milestone for the alliance - a pact US President Joe Biden declared on Monday was "essential to our shared safety and prosperity".

Mr Biden's "Asia tsar" Kurt Campbell relayed the President's words to guests including leading figures in politics, business and defence at the Parliament House dinner, saying the Australia-US alliance was not only a historical document but essential to strengthening Indo-Pacific security into the ?future.

Mr Morrison said Australia and the US's shared intelligence commitments were a major pillar of the alliance, and with "changing geopolitical realities", Australia was "stepping up to do more".

The new Cyber and Critical Technology Intelligence Centre will be located within the Office of National Intelligence to harness rapidly evolving technology and meet the security challenges that technology presents.

"This multi-agency centre will ensure Australia, working with our allies, can better anticipate and capitalise on emerging technologies," Mr Morrison told guests at the dinner, hosted by the American Australian Association, the United States Studies Centre and the Perth USAsia Centre.

He said the centre would work across the intelligence community and with non-?government R&D partners "to fund, shape and deploy cutting-edge science, research and technology to deliver better capa?bilities into the future".

"Beyond defence and intelligence, today Australia and the US work together on a wide and expanding canvass - cyber ?security, space, supply chain resilience, critical minerals, quantum computing, low emissions technologies and more," Mr Morrison said.

In his message, Mr Biden commended Australia's "strong response" to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and "the strength of your voice in upholding the values that guide us as ?democracies".

"Seventy years ago, our countries came together at the Presidio in San Francisco and established an enduring partnership - as stated in the ANZUS Treaty - to strengthen the fabric of peace in the Indo-Pacific region," the White House Indo-Pacific co-ordinator said, reading the letter from Mr Biden.

"Today, the ANZUS partnership is essential to our shared safety and prosperity."

Mr Morrison said the alliance was one of "trust, commitment and sacrifice" that "continues to be renewed for our times".

"We come to this partnership as equals. We come to this partnership bringing everything we have, and to share it ... standing equal," he said.

Guests at the dinner included Labor leader Anthony Albanese, US charge d'affaires Mike Goldman, Foreign Minister Marise Payne, her Labor counterpart Penny Wong, former prime minister John Howard, former foreign minister Julie Bishop and former US ambassador Joe Hockey.

ONI director-general Andrew Shearer, ASIO director-general Mike Burgess and Australian Secret Intelligence Service director-general Paul Symon were also among the guests, along with ?Defence Secretary Greg Moriarty, Foreign Affairs secretary Kathryn Campbell and Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo.

News Corp co-chairman Lachlan Murdoch and chief executive Robert Thomson attended, along with Herald and Weekly Times chair Penny Fow?ler, Pratt Foundation chair ?Heloise Pratt, and Boeing Australia president Brendan Nelson, a former defence minister and Liberal leader.

The Australian's editor-in-chief Christopher Dore said Sir Keith Murdoch, who established the Australian American Association in 1948, saw clearly "the shift in Australia's interests from our sentimental and emotional attachment to Britain to our practical and actual relationship with the US". He said Sir Keith would be "extremely proud" the alliance continued to thrive.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/Joe-biden-acclaims-essential-anzus/news-story/22488a6b29466e7ff6d0da6917cb85ae

#15223559 at 2021-12-20 08:03:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #20 - INSURGENCY Edition

Former Senate president Scott Ryan named as new envoy to Canada

BEN PACKHAM - DECEMBER 20, 2021

Former Liberal Senator and Senate President Scott Ryan has been named as Australia's new High Commissioner to Canada, lifting the number of political appointees to senior diplomatic posts to a record high.

Foreign Minister Marise Payne announced the appointment of her former colleague on Monday, lifting the number of ambassadors, high commissioners and consuls-general drawn from the ranks of former politicians to 11.

The appointment is significant, given Canada's status as a longstanding ally and member of the Five Eyes intelligence sharing network.

Mr Ryan replaces career diplomat Natasha Smith.

"Australia and Canada have a close relationship founded on shared values and experiences. We are proud liberal democracies and federal systems," Senator Payne said.

"Australian and Canadian defence personnel have served side-by-side for over 100 years. We also share a deep commitment to celebrating our indigenous heritages."

Australia and Canada have a strong economic relationship with two-way trade standing at $6.4bn last year.

Canada is Australia's 11th-largest source of foreign investment, with two-way investment currently standing at $159bn.

Senator Payne said Canada was also a vital partner in key international bodies, particularly the UN, APEC, WTO, G20 and the OECD.

"Our two countries work together closely through the Five Eyes group. We co-operate on international issues such as climate change, global peace and security, human rights, and the empowerment of women and girls," she said.

Mr Ryan, who was travelling on Monday and unavailable for comment, was senator for Victoria from 2008-2021, and served as 25th president of the Senate from 2017-2021.

He previously served as special minister of state; minister assisting the prime minister for cabinet, minister for vocational education and skills, and assistant cabinet secretary.

Liberal MP Dave Sharma, a former ambassador to Israel, said Mr Ryan would make "a great High Commissioner to Canada".

"His political credentials mean he will be able to plug into senior decision-makers in Ottawa, whilst his connections to the federal government in Canberra will make him a trusted counterpart for this important Five Eyes partner," he said.

"This is one of those roles where a political appointment will often prove more effective than a career diplomat."

The number of political appointees to top diplomatic posts has risen from two under the Whitlam government in 1974.

The Morrison government has now made nine political appointments to lead diplomatic missions, including former frontbencher Arthur Sinodinos as ambassador to the US, replacing former treasurer Joe Hockey, and former NSW premier Barry O'Farrell as High Commissioner to India.

Other Morrison government political appointees include former Liberal frontbencher Mitch Fifield (UN), former NSW premier Nick Greiner (New York), former Liberal senator David Bushby (Chicago), former Tasmanian premier Will Hodgman (Singapore), and former NSW Liberal MP Patricia Forsythe (Wellington).

Not all of the Coalition government's political appointments have been Liberals, with former Labor minister Gary Gray named ambassador to Ireland by the Morrison government.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/former-senate-president-scott-ryan-named-as-new-envoy-to-canada/news-story/623aa1fbe560f06808fa083e26ec1660

#15200685 at 2021-12-16 05:33:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #20 - INSURGENCY Edition

Caroline Kennedy to be next US ambassador to Australia

ADAM CREIGHTON - DECEMBER 16, 2021

Joe Biden has nominated Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of former president John F. Kennedy, to be the next ambassador to Australia, pending Senate confirmation, ending months of speculation as to whether she wanted the role.

Former Australian ambassadors and foreign policy experts feted the decision as a signal of the ever closer ties between Washington and Canberra, owing to Ms Kennedy's close connection with President Biden and the White House.

Ms Kennedy, 64, has a distinguished history of diplomatic experience, having served as US ambassador to Japan under former president Barack Obama for four years to 2017.

"Prior to her time in Japan, Kennedy was at the forefront of education reform efforts in New York City, creating public private partnerships to promote arts education, school libraries, and performing arts spaces," the White House said in the announcement.

Ms Kennedy said in a statement that she was "excited to get to know the Australian people, learn about their fascinating country and share with them what I love most about America".

She called Australia "a country that is vital to our future security and prosperity".

"I look forward to collaborating with the government of Australia to strengthen our alliance, improve global health and increase vaccine access during this terrible pandemic and to address the urgent climate crisis," she said.

Kim Beazley, Governor of Western Australia and former US ambassador said Ms Kennedy would be "enormously effective" in Canberra.

"She is a good diplomat and has had a great history in the political life of the United States. She is a woman who gets noticed and we want that in an American ambassador to Australia," he said.

Michael Thawley, who preceded Mr Beazley as Australia's ambassador in Washington, said Ms Kennedy was "politically astute" and her appointment reflected the "esteem and affection which Australia enjoys in the US".

"As the daughter of one of the US's most loved presidents and a member of one of the US's most significant political dynasties, she is something of a symbol of the consequential place Australia occupies in the US's world view," he said.

Press speculation about Ms Kennedy's impending nomination, presumably leaked by well connected officials, had sprouted up throughout the year, inviting concern she may ultimately have not wanted the role.

Speaking in May when speculation of her candidacy first emerged, Joe Hockey, treasurer in the Abbott government and former Australian ambassador in Washington, said the appointment of Ms Kennedy would be "hugely symbolic",

"It would be a very powerful statement that Joe Biden sees Australia as a key ally in the Indo-Pacific region," he said.

"It would be symbolic, not only because of her vast personal experience as a successful ambassador to Japan, but also because of her position as a member of the royal family of the democratic party."

Ms Kennedy, an early supporter of Joe Biden's bid for the presidency, if approved by the Senate, will succeed Donald Trump's ambassador to Australia, Arthur Culvahouse, a US lawyer, who returned to the US in January after 22 months as ambassador.

Ms Kennedy would be the first ambassador in Canberra appointed by a Democrat president since John Berry's appointment in 2013, who succeeded Californian lawyer Jeffrey Bleich, Barack Obama's first appointment as ambassador in Canberra.

Ms Kennedy, who grew up in New York before receiving a degrees in arts and law at Columbia and Harvard University, backed Mr Biden's bid for the presidency in a January 2020 editorial in The Boston Globe.

Caroline, daughter of Jacqueline Kennedy, was five when her father was assassinated in Dallas in November 1963, just two months short of three years since his inauguration.

It was among a series of tragedies the famous US family endured, including the death of Caroline's brother, John, in a plane crash in 1999.

Ms Kennedy has three adult children and is married to Edwin Schlossberg.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/caroline-kennedy-to-be-next-us-ambassador-to-australia/news-story/eb5f564828583e7a253540b2c8f2a5db

#15175295 at 2021-12-11 09:55:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #20 - INSURGENCY Edition

#19 - Part 17
Australia / China Tensions - Part 4
>>15112379 Transcript - Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian's Regular Press Conference on November 30, 2021
>>15121153 Labor to back Scott Morrison on Beijing's Winter Olympics boycott
>>15126605 Video: Australia refuses to sign 'truce' for Beijing Olympics as it weighs up diplomatic boycott
>>15126630 Joe Hockey: the US alliance is vital to stand up to a rising China - Joe Hockey - afr.com
>>15126667 Video: Mysterious Chinese-born Sydney businessman Cheng Fan pleads guilty to sending millions of racist and homophobic emails targeting Australian politicians including Liberal MP Dave Sharma and his political rival Kerryn Phelps
>>15126744 Campbell appeases Australia as Washington steals Canberra's market share - Global Times - globaltimes.cn
>>15132639 'Taiwan at China's mercy', Trump says in new podcast - 'What Really Happened in Wuhan' - Investigative journalist Sharri Markson
>>15132646 Video: Tucker Carlson: What Really Happened in Wuhan (EXCLUSIVE) - Sky News Australia
>>15156410 Video: Australia joins diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
>>15156421 Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Commonwealth of Australia - "Australia's success at the Beijing Winter Olympics depends on the performance of Australian athletes, not on the attendance of Australian officials"

>>15158356 Beijing blasts Australia over 2022 Winter Olympics diplomatic boycott
>>15158370 Transcript - Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin's Regular Press Conference on December 8, 2021
>>15158386 Video: China says Australia is 'blindly following certain countries' with Olympic boycott decision - Sky News Australia
>>15162844 'Nobody cares,' Chinese Foreign Ministry blasts Canberra's decision to join US in boycotting Beijing 2022
>>15164694 WA Premier Mark McGowan criticises PM over China Winter Olympics boycott and NSW counterpart over GST comment
>>15164750 Chinese leaders knew about Covid-19 in late 2019, Mike Pompeo says - Sharri Markson - theaustralian.com.au
>>15169200 Uneasy bedfellows? 'Boycott' statements show Five Eyes each has its own calculations - Xu Keyue - globaltimes.cn
>>15169238 China says Australia, the UK and US will 'pay the price' for Olympic diplomatic boycott
>>15169241 Transcript - Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin's Regular Press Conference on December 9, 2021
>>15169246 Top Australian and Chinese executives to meet for first talks in years as business leaders attempt to find a way through a hostile diplomatic environment

#15175260 at 2021-12-11 09:34:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition

#19 - Part 17
Australia / China Tensions - Part 4
>>15112379 Transcript - Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian's Regular Press Conference on November 30, 2021
>>15121153 Labor to back Scott Morrison on Beijing's Winter Olympics boycott
>>15126605 Video: Australia refuses to sign 'truce' for Beijing Olympics as it weighs up diplomatic boycott
>>15126630 Joe Hockey: the US alliance is vital to stand up to a rising China - Joe Hockey - afr.com
>>15126667 Video: Mysterious Chinese-born Sydney businessman Cheng Fan pleads guilty to sending millions of racist and homophobic emails targeting Australian politicians including Liberal MP Dave Sharma and his political rival Kerryn Phelps
>>15126744 Campbell appeases Australia as Washington steals Canberra's market share - Global Times - globaltimes.cn
>>15132639 'Taiwan at China's mercy', Trump says in new podcast - 'What Really Happened in Wuhan' - Investigative journalist Sharri Markson
>>15132646 Video: Tucker Carlson: What Really Happened in Wuhan (EXCLUSIVE) - Sky News Australia
>>15156410 Video: Australia joins diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
>>15156421 Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Commonwealth of Australia - "Australia's success at the Beijing Winter Olympics depends on the performance of Australian athletes, not on the attendance of Australian officials"

>>15158356 Beijing blasts Australia over 2022 Winter Olympics diplomatic boycott
>>15158370 Transcript - Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin's Regular Press Conference on December 8, 2021
>>15158386 Video: China says Australia is 'blindly following certain countries' with Olympic boycott decision - Sky News Australia
>>15162844 'Nobody cares,' Chinese Foreign Ministry blasts Canberra's decision to join US in boycotting Beijing 2022
>>15164694 WA Premier Mark McGowan criticises PM over China Winter Olympics boycott and NSW counterpart over GST comment
>>15164750 Chinese leaders knew about Covid-19 in late 2019, Mike Pompeo says - Sharri Markson - theaustralian.com.au
>>15169200 Uneasy bedfellows? 'Boycott' statements show Five Eyes each has its own calculations - Xu Keyue - globaltimes.cn
>>15169238 China says Australia, the UK and US will 'pay the price' for Olympic diplomatic boycott
>>15169241 Transcript - Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin's Regular Press Conference on December 9, 2021
>>15169246 Top Australian and Chinese executives to meet for first talks in years as business leaders attempt to find a way through a hostile diplomatic environment

#15126636 at 2021-12-03 09:00:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition

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Economic coercion

The Mateship campaign reminded America of our shared history, helped reintroduce Australia to a new generation of Americans, and raised Australia's status with American decision-makers. After that testy phone call, we worked hard to build a broad, bipartisan coalition of support for Australia by relaunching the Congressional Friends of Australia Caucus and deploying a US-wide soft diplomacy campaign.

We also worked hard to improve relations between Trump and Turnbull, culminating in a face-to-face meeting on the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 2017, on board the USS Intrepid in New York. I spoke with the prime minister and Reince Priebus, Trump's chief of staff, to set up the USS Intrepid event.

On board the aircraft carrier, the two leaders reconciled and cleared the way for us to shift the narrative to celebrating our first 100 years of mateship and look ahead to the next.

Avoiding the blowback

While the Trump administration slapped tariffs on products from major allies such as Canada and the UK, Australia was spared. Australia also dodged Trump's caustic rhetoric as he called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "weak" and "dishonest". Trump even postponed a meeting with the Danish prime minister over the aborted Greenland purchase effort.

Meanwhile, for the remainder of Trump's time in office, we deftly delivered on Australia's national interests without experiencing the same blowback as other allies and partners.

I learned a lot about Australia's relationship with America and Americans during my time as ambassador. Perhaps most importantly, I realised our mutual values and shared history are stronger than the men and women who, from time to time, might lead these nations.

Australians and Americans have fought side-by-side in every major conflict since the Battle of Hamel on the fourth of July 1918, America's Independence Day. The story of our shared history resonates because of the depth of both the human and business connections that have grown since that day on the battlefields in France.

Australia and America will face more challenges together. For the foreseeable future, our shared challenge is the rising People's Republic of China. As China uses tools such as economic coercion and espionage against Australia ever more frequently, it is vital the United States and Australia not only remember our shared history but continue to deepen our partnership.

On this 70th anniversary of the signing of the ANZUS Treaty, I confidently keep my faith in US-Australia mateship as our countries look at the world to come.

Joe Hockey is a former federal treasurer and served as US ambassador from 2016 to 2020.

This is an extract from the United States Studies Centre's commemorative book The Alliance at 70, which will be launched on Tuesday. The ANZUS Treaty was signed in San Francisco on September 1, 1951.

https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/Joe-Hockey-the-us-alliance-is-vital-to-stand-up-to-a-rising-china-20211130-p59djl

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#15126630 at 2021-12-03 08:58:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition

Joe Hockey: the US alliance is vital to stand up to a rising China

Joe Hockey - Dec 3, 2021

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The period from 2016 until 2020 - my term as Australia's ambassador to the United States - will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the most chaotic and charged in the nation's recent history.

For many long-standing allies, the arrival of the Trump administration resulted in new and unpredictable pressure points: traditional diplomacy was shown the door. Many countries were left scrambling to prosecute their agendas with Washington in the four years that followed.

Australia's relationship with the Trump administration did not get off to a great start. The well-accounted telephone call between president Donald Trump and prime minister Malcolm Turnbull about the Obama-era deal to send refugees held on Manus Island and Nauru to the US put us on the back foot.

This was undoubtedly a low point of my term. I had been optimistic about that call beforehand because Turnbull had previously had a good conversation with then-president-elect Trump back in November. Instead, the January 28 call went off the rails after just 25 minutes instead of the scheduled hour. A transcript made its way to the media not long after.

Following the call and subsequent leak, we weren't just worried about the refugee deal but the whole trajectory of US-Australia relations. Yet, I believe deeply in the enduring strength of the American-Australian relationship, founded on our shared history and common values. And it was this special connection, which I refer to as our Mateship, that we relied on during that period to differentiate Australia and help prosecute our interests with our most important strategic partner.

The secret to any campaign is to have a story to tell - a narrative that can capture the attention and imagination of your audience.

Australia's relationship with the United States operates at many levels, and during that most unconventional of administrations, it was more important than ever to clearly define what sets our relationship apart. Not just to the White House but across Congress, at the state-level where more decision-making was devolved, and within the business community.

So, we launched the 100 Years of Mateship campaign. We needed Americans to remember how Australia has always supported the United States, whether it was through the use of Australian facilities in the Apollo 11 Moon landing, our joint military efforts in Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq, or the fact that Australia is the US' largest research partner.

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#14852977 at 2021-10-25 07:22:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition

>>14852974

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Liberal senator James Paterson, chair of the federal parliament's security and intelligence committee, said it was a "very exciting development for the Pacific and for Australia" and it would come with "no strings attached".

"Digital communications are the key to development and prosperity, particularly in the developing world," he said."It's a tribute to Australia's commitment to the Pacific. It's consistent with our long-standing policy of the Pacific Step Up, and it demonstrates that once again, Australia is a partner of choice whether that comes to aid and development, or more recently, the vaccine roll out and now the development of critical infrastructure.

"One of the key things about this agreement is that it demonstrates that Australia does so for the benefit of our friends and family in the Pacific, and unlike some other operators in the Pacific, we do so without any strings attached.

Asked whether the deal was about countering China, Senator Paterson said "this isn't about any one other country".

There has been growing concern from national security experts about China-backed firms funding and buying strategically sensitive assets in the Pacific, including a proposed Chinese fishing facility in Papua New Guinea and Digicel's assets.

While Australia has long been the dominant provider of foreign aid in the region, Beijing has led the way in providing cheap loans to bankroll infrastructure projects. China was responsible for 37 per cent of all donor loans to the Pacific between 2011 and 2017, funding projects with a total value of about $US1.7 billion.

Telstra was approached by the federal government late last year about the prospect of an acquisition, amid reports there was interest from Chinese buyers. The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age revealed an initial offer was made in July, whereby Telstra would contribute between $200 and $300 million for the assets.

Telstra's existing international division holds a large subsea cable network that has licences in Asia, Europe and the US. The value in this division comes from the facilitation of data traffic for the company's major clients including Google, Facebook and Microsoft.

Digicel operates in six markets in the South Pacific including Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, Tonga and Nauru. In the year ending March 31, it reported $US450 million in revenue and adjusted earnings [before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation] of approximately US$ 222 million. Digicel will have no operational responsibility as part of the deal, but the brand will remain in the six markets.

Mr O'Brien will join the board of directors for the newly formed company, which was a request made by Telstra earlier this year.

"I am very pleased that today's agreement with Telstra, our very near neighbour in the Pacific, will further enhance DPL's infrastructure, data and call termination links with one of the largest and most reliable networks in Australia," Mr O'Brien said. "I thank all of our colleagues in the South Pacific and beyond who have made today possible, and I remain committed to ensuring a successful transition in my ongoing role as a director of the newly formed holding company for DPL."

Investment bank BarrenJoey advised Telstra on the deal while Macquarie Capital advised the government. Former Treasurer Joe Hockey's firm Bondi Partners was engaged by Digicel to help sell its Pacific assets.

Telstra shares closed up 2 per cent at $3.81.

https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/telstra-seals-us1-6b-deal-to-buy-digicel-20211025-p592sj.html

#14789307 at 2021-10-15 08:58:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition

#18 - Part 2
Australian Politics and Society - Part 2
>>14442992 Video: How Murdoch's Fox News allowed Trump's propaganda to destabilise democracy - Four Corners / ABC News In-depth
>>14442999 The ABC's big lie and the madness of Four Corners - James Madden and Adam Creighton - theaustralian.com.au
>>14443100 Lin Wood Telegram Post: Keep a close eye on events in Australia. The enemy plans to bring those events to a city near you in the foreseeable future. But while you should keep alert and look around at events in other parts of the world, STAY FOCUSED on demanding and obtaining full forensic audits of the 2020 election in every state!!!
>>14443331 RAAF flights ferry another 650 out of Afghanistan in mass Kabul airlift as Taliban's 'red line' for withdrawal approaches
>>14448979 Video: 'Satan works in mysterious ways': Newscast on Australian TV interrupted by devil-worshipping ceremony - rt.com
>>14448979 Video: The push to have Satanism taught in Brisbane state schools - 7NEWS
>>14452283 Police powers to hack and disrupt dark web pass Parliament
>>14452329 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: Australian Soldiers and U.S. Marines train together. #Soldiers with the Australian #Army showed U.S. #Marines with Marine Rotational Force Darwin how to use the Australian Service Light Armored Vehicle and the F88 Austeyr Assault Rifle during Exercise Koolendong 21. Training with the Australian Defence Force enhances our abilities to work together and demonstrates the strength of the U.S.-Australian alliance.
>>14452344 Dear Aussie Anons: Take some time out this Saturday, August 28, 2021. We need you! Help us pray to God and Jesus for justice and liberty! For courage and honesty! For God, family, and country, Aussie Patriots!
>>14452362 Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation Tweet: Only 21% of parents think there is a likelihood that online child sexual exploitation can happen to their child. Please help us raise this number and increase awareness of online child sexual exploitation. #ChildProtection

>>14461788 Barack Obama recruited Malcolm Turnbull to persuade Donald Trump to respect traditional alliances and adhere to international agreements during a secret meeting in Sydney after he left the White House
>>14461993 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: U.S. Marines and Australian Army forces hosted leaders from Forces Command to observe units training during Exercise Koolendong. Exercise Koolendong validates MRF-D's and the ADF's ability to conduct expeditionary command and control operations, demonstrating the shared commitment to being ready to respond to a crisis or contingency in the Indo-Pacific region.
>>14462339 Extremists hunt cops online as anti-lockdown violence surges - conspiracy theorist Karen Brewer posts thinly veiled death threats against a NSW minister
>>14471808 Australia's Afghanistan evacuation mission ends amid Kabul airport suicide bombing - At least 60 people including 13 US troops killed in two bomb blasts orchestrated by Islamic State offshoot ISIS-K
>>14471822 Video: Prime Minister Scott Morrison mourns deaths of 'American and Afghan friends' in Kabul airport attack
>>14478728 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: U.S. Marine Corps - 26 August 2021 - Statement from the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General David H. Berger: "It is with extremely heavy hearts that we learned several Marines and other service members were killed and wounded in the Kabul attacks today. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families as they are notified of this devastating loss."
>>14484206 Department of Defence Tweet: #HMASWarramunga has departed Fleet Base West and is en route to participate in #ExMalabar alongside key regional partners India, Japan and the United States.
>>14484210 The Royal Australian Navy will join key regional partners India, Japan and the United States for Exercise MALABAR 2021
>>14490267 Video: New Zealand needs to 'lift' in Five Eyes: Joe Hockey - Sky News Australia
>>14490534 US Embassy Canberra Tweet: #ExerciseMalibar: The (United States) and (Australia) join India and Japan for a joint naval exercise in the Philippine Sea. Malabar 2021 brings together the four #IndoPacific navies to strengthen their skills in maritime operations, fostering regional security and stability.

#14789214 at 2021-10-15 08:34:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #18 - Talisman Sabre: MAGIC SWORD Edition

#18 - Part 2
Australian Politics and Society - Part 2
>>14442992 Video: How Murdoch's Fox News allowed Trump's propaganda to destabilise democracy - Four Corners / ABC News In-depth
>>14442999 The ABC's big lie and the madness of Four Corners - James Madden and Adam Creighton - theaustralian.com.au
>>14443100 Lin Wood Telegram Post: Keep a close eye on events in Australia. The enemy plans to bring those events to a city near you in the foreseeable future. But while you should keep alert and look around at events in other parts of the world, STAY FOCUSED on demanding and obtaining full forensic audits of the 2020 election in every state!!!
>>14443331 RAAF flights ferry another 650 out of Afghanistan in mass Kabul airlift as Taliban's 'red line' for withdrawal approaches
>>14448979 Video: 'Satan works in mysterious ways': Newscast on Australian TV interrupted by devil-worshipping ceremony - rt.com
>>14448979 Video: The push to have Satanism taught in Brisbane state schools - 7NEWS
>>14452283 Police powers to hack and disrupt dark web pass Parliament
>>14452329 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: Australian Soldiers and U.S. Marines train together. #Soldiers with the Australian #Army showed U.S. #Marines with Marine Rotational Force Darwin how to use the Australian Service Light Armored Vehicle and the F88 Austeyr Assault Rifle during Exercise Koolendong 21. Training with the Australian Defence Force enhances our abilities to work together and demonstrates the strength of the U.S.-Australian alliance.
>>14452344 Dear Aussie Anons: Take some time out this Saturday, August 28, 2021. We need you! Help us pray to God and Jesus for justice and liberty! For courage and honesty! For God, family, and country, Aussie Patriots!
>>14452362 Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation Tweet: Only 21% of parents think there is a likelihood that online child sexual exploitation can happen to their child. Please help us raise this number and increase awareness of online child sexual exploitation. #ChildProtection

>>14461788 Barack Obama recruited Malcolm Turnbull to persuade Donald Trump to respect traditional alliances and adhere to international agreements during a secret meeting in Sydney after he left the White House
>>14461993 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: U.S. Marines and Australian Army forces hosted leaders from Forces Command to observe units training during Exercise Koolendong. Exercise Koolendong validates MRF-D's and the ADF's ability to conduct expeditionary command and control operations, demonstrating the shared commitment to being ready to respond to a crisis or contingency in the Indo-Pacific region.
>>14462339 Extremists hunt cops online as anti-lockdown violence surges - conspiracy theorist Karen Brewer posts thinly veiled death threats against a NSW minister
>>14471808 Australia's Afghanistan evacuation mission ends amid Kabul airport suicide bombing - At least 60 people including 13 US troops killed in two bomb blasts orchestrated by Islamic State offshoot ISIS-K
>>14471822 Video: Prime Minister Scott Morrison mourns deaths of 'American and Afghan friends' in Kabul airport attack
>>14478728 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: U.S. Marine Corps - 26 August 2021 - Statement from the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General David H. Berger: "It is with extremely heavy hearts that we learned several Marines and other service members were killed and wounded in the Kabul attacks today. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families as they are notified of this devastating loss."
>>14484206 Department of Defence Tweet: #HMASWarramunga has departed Fleet Base West and is en route to participate in #ExMalabar alongside key regional partners India, Japan and the United States.
>>14484210 The Royal Australian Navy will join key regional partners India, Japan and the United States for Exercise MALABAR 2021
>>14490267 Video: New Zealand needs to 'lift' in Five Eyes: Joe Hockey - Sky News Australia
>>14490534 US Embassy Canberra Tweet: #ExerciseMalibar: The (United States) and (Australia) join India and Japan for a joint naval exercise in the Philippine Sea. Malabar 2021 brings together the four #IndoPacific navies to strengthen their skills in maritime operations, fostering regional security and stability.

#14538999 at 2021-09-08 06:45:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #18 - Talisman Sabre: MAGIC SWORD Edition

>>14538995

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The year's AUSMIN talks will occur against the backdrop of the US global force posture review, which is expected to position China and the Indo Pacific as America's top strategic priorities.

Mr Dutton said Australia and the US needed to work more closely together "to achieve our force posture and defence capability objectives".

"That must include giving greater practical effect to Australia's inclusion in the US National Technology and Industrial Base. It means both our governments and defence industry sectors working to reduce barriers to collaboration and integration.

"Our respective national industries and small businesses have unique skills. They are at the forefront of innovation in certain fields; they lead technological ?developments in distinct areas.

"Through co-operation, we can surge ahead, creating a whole that is far greater than the sum of our parts," he told the event, organised and hosted by former Australian ambassador to the US Joe Hockey, now president of Bondi Partners.

Mr Dutton said it was vital for Australia to continue to invest in its core military capabilities, ?including submarines, frigates and fighter jets. But, in a reference to the government's push to rapidly acquire new US guided missiles, he said Australia needed the ability "to hold a potential adversary's forces and infrastructure at risk from a greater distance".

He said the Australian Defence Force - which does not yet have a single armed drone - also needed to acquire new and inexpensive unmanned systems, "which can undertake multifaceted missions, be used in a swarm capacity, or teamed with traditional manned capabilities".

Australian Strategic Policy Institute chief executive Michael Shoebridge said the US NTIB had underdelivered on its sweeping ambition, and it was important to focus on specific initiatives to ?address key strategic challenges.

"If there is one specific thing right now it is missile production in Australia," he said. "That involves tightly held commercial and government intellectual property, and making a decision to have money spent in Australia rather than in the US, buying from their local production facility."

He said dispersing US missile production to supplies in a conflict made strategic sense, but "it makes less sense if you are a congress-person with a missile production facility in your district".

Mr Shoebridge said the proposed initiative would also have to overcome the lingering influence of Donald Trump's "America First" mantra in President Joe Biden's economic platform.

The Morrison government announced a $1bn plan in March to establish a sovereign guided weapons enterprise producing US-designed missiles in Australia. The government hopes the initiative will supply hi-tech weapons for both the ADF and the US military.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/peter-duttons-us-missile-memo-share-your-knowhow/news-story/23e242f84d0ee776063ac1ec6c88915c

#14516355 at 2021-09-03 22:57:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #18 - Talisman Sabre: MAGIC SWORD Edition

>>14516346

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He would take little kernels, and magnify them in order to put the best face forward. In hindsight, obviously, it turns out to be something that hamstrung the administration's response to the crisis."

On March 1, Trump's deputy chief of staff, Chris Liddell, threw a small dinner party at his home in Washington DC. It was a Sunday evening and still chilly in the nation's capital. Gathered around the elegant dinner table were the upper echelons of the Trump administration: Mulvaney and his wife, Pamela West, and national economic council chair director Larry Kudlow and his wife, Judith.

To get the conversation rolling as they ate, Liddell posed a question to his guests, for each to answer around the table. "What is the big issue of 2020?" he asked. And one by one, the guests ticked off various topics. The soaring economy, Liddell himself nominated. The election that Trump was going to romp home, said Mulvaney. And so it went, around the table. Extraordinarily, not one of the six Americans nominated Covid-19 as the defining issue of 2020. None of them.

The four Australians present - one of them, a doctor - were astounded. They all said the coronavirus would be the defining issue of the year. Australian ambassador Joe Hockey suggested to the group that perhaps it would be a good idea to tell the American public to wear masks. "Maybe everyone should be wearing masks, because you remember SARS in Asia, that's how they managed it. With masks," he said to the men who had become his friends since he moved to Washington four years earlier. But he was shouted down, told that masks were "useless". "You'd never get Americans to wear masks," Mulvaney said.

Hockey, who remains close friends with Mulvaney and Liddell, couldn't believe what he was hearing. They all thought it would pass, it was like a bad flu season. "None of them had ever managed a crisis because none of them had ever been in government before - at least not a crisis they didn't manufacture themselves," he said. "They were in denial, total denial. They thought it would be like Singapore, come the summer, it'll pass. They were saying, 'We've got it under control. It's a mild flu.' They had all the excuses. I don't blame them. They were receiving confusing advice and they were following confusing leadership. They could see it potentially undermining Trump's re-election strategy."

Trump made the comparison with the flu himself days later on March 9. In a tweet he said, "So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of coronavirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!"

The next day he said, "And it hit the world. And we're prepared, and we're doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away."

Puzzled, Hockey wondered whether the same intelligence that was warning Australia about the impending gravity of the situation was reaching the president and his most senior advisers. The Americans were so relaxed about the situation, Hockey questioned if maybe Australia was heading into lockdown unnecessarily. "At times I thought Australia was overreacting because I was in an environment where everyone was saying 'Don't overreact'," he recalls.

"Washington is the centre of the universe and if something is happening on the other side of the world, it doesn't seem real."

Australia's Defence Minister Peter Dutton, who at the time was minister for home affairs, says that in the US "there was a belief that this wasn't going to hit their shores at that point in time. Australia had seen the intelligence. The predictions for us at that point were fairly dire. The initial advice to us was quite confronting, that we were going to run out of capacity within ICUs (intensive care units). Fortunately, that didn't transpire."

The White House's dismissive approach to the coronavirus also alarmed Fox News's top-rating host Tucker Carlson. He made his first-ever trip to Mar-a-Lago on March 7, 2020, to warn the president the situation could get really serious. He was particularly concerned the US may not have the medical capacity to deal with a pandemic.

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#14516333 at 2021-09-03 22:54:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #18 - Talisman Sabre: MAGIC SWORD Edition

Covid-19: US suspicious of Wuhan lab for years

SHARRI MARKSON - SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

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America's top-secret intelligence agency had been concerned about the chemical and biological activities at the Wuhan Institute of Virology since five years before the Covid-19 pandemic.

Former director of the National Security Agency Mike Rogers, appointed under president Barack Obama, has revealed there were concerns about the Wuhan Institute of Virology during his time at the helm of the agency from 2014 to 2018.

His remarks, featured in the soon-to-be-released book, What Really Happened in Wuhan, are supported by former secretary of state and CIA director Mike Pompeo, who said the US government was familiar with the Wuhan laboratories, and their biological risks and safety concerns, when the pandemic hit.

"Of course we knew the history of the lab because there had been Western connections to it," Mr Pompeo says in the book. "We knew a great deal about the laboratory. The French built it, designed it, we had provided scientists there that had partnered with them on research so we knew a good deal about what was taking place.

"And so it didn't take us long after January (2020) before we had as a working hypothesis this possibility (of a lab leak)."

Mr Rogers, a highly decorated former US Navy admiral, served as director of the NSA, which specialises in signals intelligence, from 2014, when Obama was president, through to 2018, under president Donald Trump.

He was also a member of the military's Joint Staff, the most senior uniformed leaders within the ?Department of Defence, during the first stage of the Iraq War.

"There's always a concern about biological and chemical activities," Mr Rogers said. "This is an area, from an intelligence perspective and a national security perspective, we pay attention to and we put resources together to try to understand. It's one reason why you saw the cables coming out of the embassy in Beijing. It's an area we very much publicly acknowledge we're concerned about and pay attention to."

What Really Happened in Wuhan also details how senior Morrison government officials were puzzled over the Trump ?administration's early dismissal of the coronavirus as a hoax or akin to the flu, appearing to ignore intelligence that a global pandemic could unfold.

Former Australian ambassador to the US Joe Hockey advised Trump's then chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, and deputy chief of staff Chris Liddell in March 2020 that Americans should start to wear masks, as the virus began to spread within the US.

He gave the advice at a private Washington dinner party, detailed in the first extract of the book in The Weekend Australian's Inquirer section. But he was shouted down and told masks were "useless" and Covid-19 was nothing more than a "mild flu".

Mr Hockey reveals the senior officials were also concerned about the virus "potentially undermining Mr Trump's re-election strategy".

He wondered whether the same intelligence that warned Australia about the potential global pandemic was reaching the president's top advisers.

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#14490267 at 2021-08-30 06:14:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #18 - Talisman Sabre: MAGIC SWORD Edition

New Zealand needs to 'lift' in Five Eyes: Joe Hockey

Sky News Australia

Aug 29, 2021

Former Australian Ambassador to the US Joe Hockey says New Zealand needs to "lift" in the Five Eyes alliance, as the agreement can't be "four and a half eyes".

"New Zealand needs to be very careful, because the relationship can't be based on overwhelmingly just one party taking from everyone else," Mr Hockey told Sky News Australia.

"You need to give, in order to maintain a relationship.

"We can't be four eyes, or four and a half eyes."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prt1XXiqiTE

#13756596 at 2021-05-26 06:36:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #16 - INFILTRATION NOT INVASION Edition

>>13756589

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Mr Goldman said the "unbreakable" ANZUS alliance, which has its 70th anniversary in September, would outlast current tensions with China over Taiwan, declaring it was "much stronger and more comprehensive than any one contingency".

"We are not going to dictate countries' self-interest here. Every country will have to make its own determination (on Taiwan)," he said.

Mr Goldman also lashed Chinese President Xi Jinping's "bellicose" disregard for the inter­national rules-based order, reiterating US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's assurances that the US would not leave Australia "alone on the pitch" to face China's "economic blackmail".

He said unlike Donald Trump, President Joe Biden would not make Australia wait for years for a new US ambassador. The appointment would be "if not in the very first tranche, then in the first wave" of ambassadorial announcements, and would be a political operator of a similar stature to Kim Beazley, Joe Hockey or Arthur Sinodinos.

"We don't have a name yet; in fact, there have not been any political appointees named for any ­bilateral ambassadorships," he said. "What that suggests strongly is they are ... ­vetting candidates with extreme thoroughness and precision."

Mr Goldman said Mr Biden wanted to visit Australia for the September 1 anniversary of ANZUS, but "the big variable is how Covid goes in the US".

"If Covid allows domestically and internationally, it would be something that we would really like to see," he said.

Mr Goldman - a career diplomat who has lived three times in Taipei - said the US Taiwan strategy was not solely a military approach, but one of "compre­hensive deterrence".

He said the West's difficult relationship with China was more challenging than the Cold War with Russia because it needed to work with Beijing on key issues such as cutting carbon emissions.

Mr Goldman said the US was leading by example on climate change, and expected "real concrete ambition" from Australia to get its emissions down. Australia has sought to focus on a technology-led climate change policy, and is yet to give ground on setting fresh emissions targets.

Mr Goldman said the US was determined to work with its partners on fighting Covid across the world, and rejected suggestions that China was leading the West in its vaccine diplomacy efforts.

"(Beijing) over-promised in the very beginning but there has been a lack of transparency in the quality of data that has been presented on its vaccines, and there has been a significant under-delivery of vaccines compared to the quantities promised," he said.

"Whereas if you look at our efforts, I think the US and Australia share a view that vaccines should be aggressively distributed to the places that are most in need."

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/us-eyes-top-end-military-buildup-to-combat-china-threat/news-story/1f75ea2038aba861fa9c553bfc6c6228

#13741324 at 2021-05-24 09:26:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #16 - INFILTRATION NOT INVASION Edition

#15 - Part 3
Australian Politics and Society - Part 3
>>13508222 Video: Mike Pompeo has 'kept his cards close' when quizzed on political ambitions - Sky News Australia
>>13515179 Top US general pays his respects to Anzac Day in Washington - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Milley Mark Milley
>>13515184 Arthur Sinodinos AO Tweet: Honour to host #ANZACDay dawn service with @NZAmbassadorUS Banks and to welcome Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff #GenMilley to the Residence
>>13515203 The Joint Staff Tweet: #GenMilley: "On this #ANZACDay, we honor the sacrifices of our Australian and New Zealand brothers and sisters in arms. We are proud to have the honor of serving shoulder to shoulder with you."
>>13515223 Australia in the US Tweet: We thank those who joined us virtually in honouring our #Anzacs. We are privileged to remember those that made the ultimate sacrifice and thank those that continue to bravely protect our freedom.
>>13515232 Australia in the US Tweet: Today our Air & Space Attache conducted a small #AnzacDay ceremony at @ArlingtonNatl. They laid a wreath at the gravesite of PLTOFF Francis Milne - the only Australian military member buried at the Cemetery.
>>13515254 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Tweet: Lest We Forget - Originally done to commemorate the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps forces from World War I, #AnzacDay2021 recognizes the men and women who served in the Australian and New Zealand armed services in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations
>>13515260 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: With the Northern Territory remaining free of COVID transmission within the community, Marines were able to participate in today's events to show respects to their fallen, former, and active members.
>>13515399 Neo-Nazis make submission to Parliamentary inquiry into extremism
>>13517935 Social media is work of 'evil one', says Scott Morrison

>>13522489 Video: Exclusive: Prime Minister Scott Morrison's speech at the ACC conference - Rationalists Australia
>>13532829 Video: Kevin Rudd on religion, politics and Scott Morrison's speech to the Pentecostal conference - Kevin Rudd
>>13539434 Senior Democrat John Podesta: Quad will demand Australia does more on climate change
>>13539440 Rekindling Hope Podcast - Sam Crosby and Chris Bowen - Washington power broker John Podesta on how Biden is traveling and how Australia's climate policy needs to lift its game
>>13539655 Video: Spy boss Mike Burgess says ASIO anticipating terrorist attack in the next year from either right-wing or Islamic extremists
>>13539665 Australian Federal Police backs ban on flags linked to terrorist groups, sharing of extremist material
>>13539771 Pacific Marines Tweet: @USMC with @mrfdarwin conduct flight operations during a forward arming refueling point exercise at @ausairforce Base Darwin
>>13539779 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: Yesterday, the Honorable Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, met with members of the Australian Army and U.S. Marine Corps for a visit to Robertson Barracks, NT, Australia
>>13547962 President Joe Biden could learn from Australia on border policy, says Former US ambassador Joe Hockey
>>13548052 Video: Clive Palmer to pay $1.5 million after losing Twisted Sister copyright fight

>>13553273 Video: Don't give in to identity politics and forces that undermine the community, Scott Morrison urges
>>13553300 PM's plea from the heart a timely reminder - "every human being is possessed of an innate human dignity that transcends all other considerations"
>>13553469 Future of Army's multi-billion-dollar Battle Management System uncertain amid tensions with Israeli military company
>>13553502 Elbit Battle Management System shut down - "The more research into this decision undertaken, the stranger it gets. No notice. No reason given."
>>13554042 Japan honors former Australian PM Gillard for service to the nation - awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
>>13555102 Scott Morrison's partisan interpretation of biblical passages is disturbing for democracy - Kevin Rudd - theguardian.com
>>13555694 Facebook's assault exposes Australia's vulnerability, says top ex-military man Major General Marcus Thompson - INFORMATION WARFARE
>>13556296 In Memorium - Dutch patriot Mrs NarQie - "A great patriot has passed away but we will continue her fight! - WWG1WGA - Mrs. NarQie o7"
>>13569454 Video: Noosa Temple of Satan want Satanism taught in state schools - A Current Affair
>>13569460 Q Post #1646 - NEVER IN OUR HISTORY HAVE THEY COME OUT FROM THE SHADOWS TO FIGHT. THE TRUTH IS CLEARLY VISIBLE.
>>13569460 Q Post #4461 - Only when evil is forced into the light can we defeat it. Only when they can no longer operate in the [shadows] can people see the truth for themselves.
>>13569460 Q Post #4396 - God wins.

#13741248 at 2021-05-24 08:59:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #15 - NEVER RETREAT FROM THE BATTLEFIELD Edition

#15 - Part 3
Australian Politics and Society - Part 3
>>13508222 Video: Mike Pompeo has 'kept his cards close' when quizzed on political ambitions - Sky News Australia
>>13515179 Top US general pays his respects to Anzac Day in Washington - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Milley Mark Milley
>>13515184 Arthur Sinodinos AO Tweet: Honour to host #ANZACDay dawn service with @NZAmbassadorUS Banks and to welcome Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff #GenMilley to the Residence
>>13515203 The Joint Staff Tweet: #GenMilley: "On this #ANZACDay, we honor the sacrifices of our Australian and New Zealand brothers and sisters in arms. We are proud to have the honor of serving shoulder to shoulder with you."
>>13515223 Australia in the US Tweet: We thank those who joined us virtually in honouring our #Anzacs. We are privileged to remember those that made the ultimate sacrifice and thank those that continue to bravely protect our freedom.
>>13515232 Australia in the US Tweet: Today our Air & Space Attache conducted a small #AnzacDay ceremony at @ArlingtonNatl. They laid a wreath at the gravesite of PLTOFF Francis Milne - the only Australian military member buried at the Cemetery.
>>13515254 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Tweet: Lest We Forget - Originally done to commemorate the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps forces from World War I, #AnzacDay2021 recognizes the men and women who served in the Australian and New Zealand armed services in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations
>>13515260 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: With the Northern Territory remaining free of COVID transmission within the community, Marines were able to participate in today's events to show respects to their fallen, former, and active members.
>>13515399 Neo-Nazis make submission to Parliamentary inquiry into extremism
>>13517935 Social media is work of 'evil one', says Scott Morrison

>>13522489 Video: Exclusive: Prime Minister Scott Morrison's speech at the ACC conference - Rationalists Australia
>>13532829 Video: Kevin Rudd on religion, politics and Scott Morrison's speech to the Pentecostal conference - Kevin Rudd
>>13539434 Senior Democrat John Podesta: Quad will demand Australia does more on climate change
>>13539440 Rekindling Hope Podcast - Sam Crosby and Chris Bowen - Washington power broker John Podesta on how Biden is traveling and how Australia's climate policy needs to lift its game
>>13539655 Video: Spy boss Mike Burgess says ASIO anticipating terrorist attack in the next year from either right-wing or Islamic extremists
>>13539665 Australian Federal Police backs ban on flags linked to terrorist groups, sharing of extremist material
>>13539771 Pacific Marines Tweet: @USMC with @mrfdarwin conduct flight operations during a forward arming refueling point exercise at @ausairforce Base Darwin
>>13539779 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: Yesterday, the Honorable Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, met with members of the Australian Army and U.S. Marine Corps for a visit to Robertson Barracks, NT, Australia
>>13547962 President Joe Biden could learn from Australia on border policy, says Former US ambassador Joe Hockey
>>13548052 Video: Clive Palmer to pay $1.5 million after losing Twisted Sister copyright fight

>>13553273 Video: Don't give in to identity politics and forces that undermine the community, Scott Morrison urges
>>13553300 PM's plea from the heart a timely reminder - "every human being is possessed of an innate human dignity that transcends all other considerations"
>>13553469 Future of Army's multi-billion-dollar Battle Management System uncertain amid tensions with Israeli military company
>>13553502 Elbit Battle Management System shut down - "The more research into this decision undertaken, the stranger it gets. No notice. No reason given."
>>13554042 Japan honors former Australian PM Gillard for service to the nation - awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
>>13555102 Scott Morrison's partisan interpretation of biblical passages is disturbing for democracy - Kevin Rudd - theguardian.com
>>13555694 Facebook's assault exposes Australia's vulnerability, says top ex-military man Major General Marcus Thompson - INFORMATION WARFARE
>>13556296 In Memorium - Dutch patriot Mrs NarQie - "A great patriot has passed away but we will continue her fight! - WWG1WGA - Mrs. NarQie o7"
>>13569454 Video: Noosa Temple of Satan want Satanism taught in state schools - A Current Affair
>>13569460 Q Post #1646 - NEVER IN OUR HISTORY HAVE THEY COME OUT FROM THE SHADOWS TO FIGHT. THE TRUTH IS CLEARLY VISIBLE.
>>13569460 Q Post #4461 - Only when evil is forced into the light can we defeat it. Only when they can no longer operate in the [shadows] can people see the truth for themselves.
>>13569460 Q Post #4396 - God wins.

#13547962 at 2021-04-30 08:10:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #15 - NEVER RETREAT FROM THE BATTLEFIELD Edition

Biden could learn from Australia on border policy, says Hockey

Matthew Knott - April 30, 2021

Washington: Former US ambassador Joe Hockey says President Joe Biden should learn from Australia's experience on asylum seeker boat arrivals as he tries to limit the surge of migrants on America's southern border.

Hockey said Biden had performed strongly during the first 100 days of his presidency, a milestone the US President reached on Friday (AEDT). But the former Abbott government treasurer said Biden's softening of predecessor Donald Trump's tough border policies had been his "Achilles' heel".

"There are so many lessons learnt by the Australian Labor Party on this issue," Hockey told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

"The White House would be well-advised to pick up the phone and speak to some wise old Labor operatives to find out how it went for them taking a more open door approach to the borders."

Although there are differences between the asylum seeker challenges faced by the US and Australia, Hockey said there were obvious parallels.

As Labor did during the early days of the Rudd-Gillard era, Democrats have placed a strong emphasis on so-called "push factors" driving migrants to leave their home countries. Republicans have emphasised the "pull factors" drawing migrants to the US.

"Instinctively, it doesn't sit well with the left to sell tough borders as caring and humanitarian," Hockey said.

"It doesn't sit well with them until it's too late. But the most caring and compassionate thing you can do is have an orderly immigration and refugee program that gives genuine refugees hope and a process that provides some degree of certainty."

Polls show only about a third of Americans approve of Biden's handling of immigration, lower than almost all other issues.

On the first day of his presidency, Biden suspended Trump's "remain in Mexico" rule which required asylum-seekers trying to enter from the south to wait in Mexico for their American court hearings.

Under Biden's changes, unaccompanied minors can now enter the US and, after a short period in detention, live in the community while their immigration claims are processed.

In March US Customs and Border Protection agents apprehended 172, 331 migrants at the southern border, up from 74,020 in December.

Hockey, who served as US ambassador from 2016 to 2020, said he would give Biden an A- for his first 100 days.

"There's no doubt he's got off to a very strong start. He's pursued an incredible amount of reform in a short amount of time."

Contrasting Biden with his predecessor, Hockey said: "The style of the two administrations could not be more different.

"In the Biden administration there is a quiet steely resolve backed up by team discipline that was clearly absent in the Trump administration.

"It's given Americans - and those involved in public policy - a bit of a breather from the disruption of Trump."

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/Joe-biden-could-learn-from-australia-on-border-policy-says-Joe-Hockey-20210430-p57np8.html

#13422690 at 2021-04-14 08:29:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #15 - NEVER RETREAT FROM THE BATTLEFIELD Edition

>>13422688

2/2

Although cooped up at home more than he would have liked, Sinodinos has seen plenty of drama since succeeding Joe Hockey in the role last February. As well as the pandemic, he lived through the drama-filled election campaign, the storming of the Capitol on January 6 and the arrival of Joe Biden's new administration.

At first, there were fears in Australia's foreign policy community that Australia would lose influence in Washington after Donald Trump's defeat. Trump's abrasive relationship with many traditional allies allowed Australia's cachet to rise: Scott Morrison and Emmanuel Macron were the only two leaders to be granted a state dinner by Trump.

There were also worries that Biden would turn away from the Asia-Pacific as he focused on rebuilding alliances in Europe.

Such anxieties proved unfounded. In March, Biden held his first multilateral meeting since his inauguration with the leaders of "the Quad" nations: Australia, Japan and India. Sinodinos had lobbied hard for the meeting to take place.

Soon after, Kurt Campbell, Biden's "Asia tsar", announced in The Herald and The Age that US-China relations will not improve until Beijing stops its economic coercion of Australia.

The Asia-Pacific region is clearly the Biden administration's number one foreign policy priority, Sinodinos says.

"This administration has put a much greater focus on allies and partners than the previous administration," he says. "We've felt from the beginning more drawn into their processes, particularly when it comes to the Indo-Pacific and China. They are committed to multilateral institutions like the World Trade Organisation."

He continues: "People in our region are getting the message that the US is back and engaged. Under Trump I wouldn't say the US necessarily went away but the 'America First' approach tended to suggest it was 'America only'."

Sinodinos adds that the Biden administration is more orderly - and usually more predictable - than the Trump White House.

Although Australians may be seeing and hearing less of Biden than his predecessor, Sinodinos dismisses the Fox News trope that 78-year old Biden is over the hill and Kamala Harris is running the government.

"Even though Biden is not on Twitter and doing press conferences all the time, he is very much in charge. He's a very active chief executive, he's not back in the basement in Delaware."

While big functions and parties are still a while away, Sinodinos says he has can now host administration officials and members of Congress at the stately ambassadorial residence.

"I'm looking forward to some semblance of normality returning and being able to make use of the splendour of this place," he says, looking out at the residence's swimming pool and grass tennis court.

"People have adapted to circumstances but enough is enough."

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/spring-forward-why-sinodinos-is-ready-to-mingle-after-a-hermit-like-existance-20210413-p57ite.html

#13216725 at 2021-03-15 05:05:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #14 - THE ART OF WAR Edition

>>13216720

2/3

Judge appointed for defamation case

Federal Court judge Jayne Jagot has been allocated to preside over Mr Porter's defamation action against Ms Milligan.

Justice Jagot was appointed by the Rudd government to the Federal Court in 2008 and is one of the court's most highly-regarded judges.

She was a contender to be appointed to the High Court, but was passed over for promotion by the Morrison government late last year in favour of High Court judges Simon Steward and Jacqueline Gleeson.

Justice Jagot recently presided over a high-profile defamation case against ABC journalist Steve Cannane and publisher HarperCollins brought by two doctors involved in "deep sleep" therapy at Sydney's notorious Chelmsford psychiatric hospital.

Justice Jagot ruled in favour of Cannane and Harper Collins, branding the doctors' claim an attempt to "rewrite history".

She dismissed the case and ordered the men to pay the legal costs of Cannane and HarperCollins, finding the publisher and journalist had established a defence of truth and qualified privilege relating to matters of public interest.

Barrister Sue Chrysanthou SC and lawyer Rebekah Giles, who are part of Mr Porter's powerhouse legal team, acted for the doctors in that case.

Porter assembles crack legal team

Mr Walker is one of Australia's most eminent barristers and also represented Cardinal George Pell when he was successfully acquitted of child sex abuses.

Chrysanthou and Giles also represented Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young in her action against David Leyonhjelm and they both act for Phoebe Burgess.

Some of Chrysanthou's famous legal wins include Geoffrey Rush against The Daily Telegraph, Elaine Stead against the Australian Financial Review and Joe Hockey against The Sydney Morning Herald.

The ABC's February 26 article revealed a Cabinet Minister was the subject of historic rape allegations.

It did not name Mr Porter but his lawyers argue he was "easily identifiable to many Australians as the subject of the allegations."

"The ABC and Milligan knew that Porter would be readily identifiable as the subject of the Article and that he would ultimately be compelled to publicly respond," the statement of claim says.

It notes former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull made the same point in a media interview when he said "everybody knows" who the Cabinet Minister was and called on him to identify himself.

It also draws on a Media Watch episode on Monday March 9 to outline how easily identifiable Porter was from the ABC report.

In that Media Watch episode, Paul Barry said it was widely known in Canberra that Mr Porter was the subject of the ABC's online article and that he had been identified on the internet. Barry also made the point that Mr Porter's name was trending on Twitter, with his Twitter mentions increasing by 500 per cent on Saturday, then doubling from Sunday to Monday and doubling again on Tuesday and that by Tuesday, March 2 a tweet was published every six seconds naming Porter.

The statement of claim outlines how the ABC article stated the alleged assaults were said to have taken place in Sydney in 1988 "long before the accused man entered politics."

It states that out of 21 members of Cabinet, excluding the Prime Minister, 16 were male, 6 were about the same age as the victim in 1988 and only three were senior Cabinet Ministers, including Mr Porter.

(continued)

#12772871 at 2021-01-31 01:32:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #13 - THE WAR IS REAL Edition

#12 - Part 4
2020 US Presidential Election - Australian Perspectives - Part 4
>>12645615 Scott Morrison defends relationship with Donald Trump, accuses Labor of replacing foreign policy with personal attacks - Adeshola Ore - theaustralian.com.au
>>12645642 Video: Australia's Ambassador to the US Arthur Sinodinos has praised Joe Biden's "pitch perfect" inauguration and continued pressure on China - Sarah Blake - dailytelegraph.com.au
>>12645940 A 'last outpost for Trumpism': How did Donald change #AusPol? - Josh Butler - thenewdaily.com.au
>>12645998 Video: Trump Sought to Exacerbate Divisions in U.S.: Turnbull - Bloomberg Politics
>>12646051 Video: The idea Trump and his tweets incited insurrection is 'demonstrably false' - Sky News Australia
>>12646106 Video: 'Worst president in history': John Bolton describes Donald Trump's leadership | Planet America - ABC News In-depth
>>12646209 UK High Commissioner George Brandis Tweet: Brilliant to see @POTUS return the United States to the #ParisAgreement
>>12646266 Arnold Schwarzenegger Tweet: I'm rooting for you @JoeBiden. Your success is the country's success
>>12662443 Bill Shorten Tweet: What a difference a day makes (President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris Twitter screencaps)
>>12662454 Bob Carr Tweet: Like a majority of Republicans Joe Hockey believes there was vote fraud. Said it publicly. Oops! Bad move for a fledgling lobbyist wanting access to a Democrat administration.
>>12662454 Bob Carr Tweet: Now in Nine Media Joe struggles to make good but the new Democrat team weren't impressed with his crawling to the Ancien Regime now unpacking candlesticks and golf clubs at Mar-a-Largo.
>>12662478 America's silo society has to face its racial demons - Bob Carr - afr.com

>>12662525 Kevin Rudd Tweet: Biden's team inherits a bucket full of foreign policy wreckage - in declining American power, weaker alliances and a damaged domestic body politic. But with strong and steady leadership, effective strategic competition with Beijing is achievable.
>>12664164 Alexander Downer Tweet: After 4 1/2 years of reading on Twitter crazy conspiracy theories about me being a spy and how I was part of a treasonous attempted coup against president Trump and I would be hanged or sent to Gitmo, I guess that's coming to an end!
>>12664225 Video: Biden 'should stop' Trump's impeachment to unite America: Alexander Downer - Sky News Australia
>>12664403 Chief Minister Michael Gunner extends official invite to US President Joe Biden to visit the NT - Madura Mccormack - ntnews.com.au
>>12664814 Video: Trump was a 'demagogue president' and 'sociopath', says former FBI director Comey | 7.30 - ABC News In-depth
>>12680534 Kevin Rudd Tweet: Unbelievable that Murdoch media would publish this outrageous cartoon of President Biden calling him "Creepy Joe" - and for what reason? Then suggesting he's controlled by a non-existent organisation - "Antifa". All QAnon crap. #MurdochRoyalCommission
>>12704138 As Joe Biden says, this great US-Australia alliance will only grow stronger - Foreign Minister Marise Payne
>>12712187 Use Biden agenda to commit to net zero: Malcolm Turnbull
>>12713842 Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor talks emissions with John Kerry
>>12714605 Kevin Rudd and Bob Carr hail Joe Biden as climate change President
>>12728346 Opinion: What Australia needs from the new Biden administration - Alexander Downer - afr.com

#12076320 at 2020-12-18 07:31:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #11 - THE SILENT WAR CONTINUES Edition

#11 - Part 3
2020 US Presidential Election - Australian Perspectives - Part 3
>>11623384 Australia will share its COVID plan with incoming Biden administration
>>11649032, >>11650436 Sydney's skies plastered with pro-Trump skywriting slogan - TRUMP 2020
>>11650745 Video: 'Trump 2020' emblazoned across Sydney skyline as thousands rally in the US
>>11650745 (2017) Donald Trump inauguration: Supporters pay for Trump skywriting over Sydney
>>11651093 Video: Trump thrills protesting supporters with motorcade drive-by outside White House amid ongoing legal challenges - 9news.com.au
>>11666129 President Trump Tweet: those responsible for the safeguarding of our Constitution cannot allow the Fake results of the 2020 Mail-In Election to stand. The World is watching!
>>11666148 James Woods Tweet: My friend had two Australian shepherds, which she would bring to these big Sunday afternoon parties I had years ago
>>11668503 Scott Morrison wears Australian Flag face mask upside down - comms? The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
>>11690073 Tough China stance here to stay under Biden: Australia's Ambassador to the United States, Arthur Sinodinos

>>11690130 Video: What Biden's presidency will mean for Australia: Former Australian Ambassador to the United States, Joe Hockey
>>11694954 Australia to await final decision from Trump on Afghan troop withdrawal
>>11724118 Scott Morrison logs on with Donald Trump one last time at G20 and APEC virtual summits - Richard Ferguson - theaustralian.com.au - November 20, 2020
>>11776341 Video: Biden administration won't be a 'very exciting one' - Former foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer
>>11868137, >>11868149 Don't listen to Donald Trump's delusions, they aren't yours to bear - JACK THE INSIDER (Peter Hoysted) - theaustralian.com.au
>>11898720 Video: Obama branded General Michael Flynn 'public enemy number one' - Sky News Australia
>>11991248 Rita Panahi Tweet: Meanwhile, in the Australian senate... (Liberal Senator Gerard Rennick - 'This election is not over in the States')
>>12061715 Trump 'penned political suicide note' at every Covid press conference, former Australian PM John Howard says

#12076270 at 2020-12-18 07:24:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #11 - THE SILENT WAR CONTINUES Edition

Notables
are not endorsements

#11 - Part 1
2020 US Presidential Election - Australian Perspectives - Part 1
>>11415138 Donald Trump's path to victory narrow, not impossible - Troy Bramston - theaustralian.com.au
>>11421409 Q Post #4948 - https://twitter.com/TimMurtaugh/status/1323313186259480577
>>11421409 Tim Murtaugh Tweet: Dems plan to call @realDonaldTrump's Election Day surge a "Red Mirage" to delegitimize his wave of support
>>11421593 How Trump could push button on 'red mirage' strategy and send US election to Supreme Court - Mark Saunokonoko - 9news.com.au
>>11422013 If there's a disputed US election result, Australia must take action: Rudd, Turnbull
>>11444864 Video: ABC News (Australia) live: 2020 US Election Coverage
>>11444907 Video: 7NEWS Australia - America Decides 2020: US Election LIVE results
>>11447433 President Donald Trump Tweet: We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the Polls are closed!
>>11447533 Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who endorsed QAnon, wins uncontested seat of Georgia in US election - "Wires" - abc.net.au
>>11448871 Video: Live: Trump speaks from the White House on election night - Fox Business

>>11450331 Video: Donald Trump claims 'major fraud' on American public, flags Supreme Court challenge - ABC News Australia
>>11459503 Australian politicians react as votes continue to be counted - Malcolm Turnbull, Penny Wong, Chris Bowen, Mehreen Faruqi, Janet Rice
>>11473349 Scott Morrison says Australia will 'respect the decisions' of the American people as other government members call for all votes to be counted
>>11474232 US electoral counting system is a 'complete dog's breakfast': Joe Hockey - Sky News Australia
>>11474294 US election 2020: Joe Hockey's voter fraud comments are dangerous - Caroline Overington - theaustralian.com.au
>>11494320 Biden will be more nuanced on China: Former foreign ministers Bob Carr and Julie Bishop
>>11494378 Australian politicians watching US count - Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton, Richard Marles, Simon Birmingham
>>11494538 Video: Greens Leader Adam Bandt calls on Morrison to condemn "lying" and "deflated" President Trump - Sky News Australia
>>11504726 US election: Idiot genius Donald Trump's forces will continue their wrecking - Bob Carr - theaustralian.com.a
>>11508936 US election 2020: Voter suppression rife in deeply flawed system - Joe Hockey - theaustralian.com.au

>>11512005 Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he won't be calling Trump over poll
>>11529203 Q Post 3387 - You were told what was going to happen. You were told what battles we face. Strategic. Pre_planned. Patriots in control.
>>11529230 Video: This Video Will Get Donald Trump Elected - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2qIXXafxCQ
>>11529687 Australian leaders past and present congratulate Joe Biden on historic US election win - Malcolm Turnbull, Anthony Albanese, Tanya Plibersek
>>11531906 US election 2020: Trump supporters need to accept defeat - Troy Bramson - theaustralian.com.au - ("Biden's victory is one for the ages." - NOVEMBER 6, 2020)
>>11532579 Video: Scott Morrison congratulates President-elect Joe Biden - 9 News Australia
>>11532635 Video: Albanese reacts to Joe Biden US election win - 9 News Australia
>>11534583 Scott Morrison says he has 'great confidence' in US democracy as Trump refuses to concede
>>11534975 Video: Scott Morrison thanks Donald Trump, congratulates Joe Biden on US election victory
>>11535052 Video: Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull - "If Trump wants to go to the courts in the United States, well that's a matter for him."

>>11536055 'G, what a memory: The day Joe Biden became an AFL footy fan
>>11536070 (2011) When Prime Minister Julia Gillard instructed Barack Obama on the finer points of AFL football
>>11537585 Anthony Albanese calls on Scott Morrison to 'dissociate' himself from colleagues spreading Trump fraud claims
>>11550773 Aussie Artist Scottie Marsh Unveils Savage Donald Trump Graffiti In Sydney
>>11551365, >>11551396 How the world has reacted to Donald Trump's tantrums over US election result - newspaper front pages
>>11551701 Opinion: President Biden has no option but to govern from the centre - Alexander Downer - afr.com
>>11552852 Americans need a hug to get through the months ahead - Joe Hockey - theaustralian.com.au
>>11552885 Video: President-elect Biden 'had a convincing victory' - Bondi Partners CEO Alex Tureman - Sky News Australia
>>11553435 Video: Albanese probed over US election comment, "democratic processes must be respected" - Sky News Australia
>>11553702 Foreign Minister Marise Payne Tweet and video: Statement on the enduring Australia-US Alliance

#11690130 at 2020-11-18 06:06:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #11 - THE SILENT WAR CONTINUES Edition

>>11690073
What Biden's presidency will mean for Australia

Former Australian Ambassador to the US Joe Hockey says Australia can expect more calm from Joe Biden's presidency, but Donald Trump will be a "force of nature'' in the years to come.

"He (Trump) will be the Australian equivalent of the leader of the opposition up until the mid-terms." Mr Hockey said in conversation with The Australian's Editor-at-Large Paul Kelly.

He said the challenge for Joe Biden will be trying to deliver the objectives for progressive Democrats who "feel President Biden owes them a debt."

"But the key feature of the next few months will be some degree of calmness and consistency from the Oval Office."

Mr Hockey said under President Biden the US is likely to return to multilateralism, strengthening the World Trade Organisation and rejoining the Paris agreement.

But he said the US would be unlikely to rejoin the Trade Pacific Partnership, which Donald Trump withdrew the country from in 2017.

In relation to China, Mr Hockey predicted a deterioration in relations because of the pressure to prosecute human rights.

"That is an area Donald Trump chose not to go to and it's an area the Chinese are very anxious about," he said.

He noted that Joe Biden would not be able to win back more blue collar workers by "becoming friends with China."

Mr Hockey said Biden's focus on climate will be key for the US midterm elections.

"He has to navigate that carefully. The only stumble in the election campaign for Biden was the issue of fossil fuels arising out of the second debate and he had to work hard to claw back the impact of that in a number of states," he said.

He said the theme of climate change will be an area of common interest between the US and China.

"There are a number of swirling factors that will determine whether he can deliver given he's unlikely to have control of the senate."

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/strategic-forum-live-updates-australiajapan-trade-deal-a-step-to-reform-bhp-chief-says/news-story/2c40c81cb4de84649ccaa83816f1446e#U703027456675ZrF

#11552885 at 2020-11-09 05:04:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #11 - THE SILENT WAR CONTINUES Edition

>>11552852

2/2

Critics will say that Biden should have won by more. I don't accept that. The US is a bitterly divided nation. Those same critics have consistently underestimated Trump. They viewed him as an unelectable fool and they took his every word as a spear from an adversary. They saw no good in anything Trump did whether it was genuine peace agreements in the Middle East or criminal justice reform that got record numbers of blacks out of jail.

The bottom line is that Democrats should be happy with the outcome. Whatever comes of the Georgia recount and ongoing uncertainty in Arizona, Joe Biden and the Democratic Party managed to win states that Trump needed to hold.

Far more Americans like and admire Biden than voted for him. That's why Trump could not lay a glove on Biden's character. He tried hard but failed. Biden is a very decent man and his story is inspiring. He suffered gut-wrenching personal tragedies and has lived a humble life. He first ran as a Democratic candidate for president in 1988 before a huge cohort of his current voters were born. He lost again in 2008 then served as much admired deputy to Barack Obama for eight years.

From day one of Biden's campaign, when he jogged across that stage in Philadelphia to announce his candidacy for president, he framed his campaign as a "battle for the soul of our nation". He never once wavered from the theme for 18 months.

The message consistency has been remarkable and it is also purpose-built for a time when the nation is hurting.

And it's been reflected in his nomination of Kamala Harris as his running mate. On the candidate stage Harris landed the most aggressive blow on Biden's character. He still chose her as his running mate. That's Biden the forgiver.

He also knows that it sends a powerful message having a woman as his legal successor for the next four years. Mary Milwaukee may never admit it because she is focused on policy first, but she would be really pleased to see a woman in leadership. She would see it as an inspiration for her daughter. For most of us it is much more inspiring.

This election was a repudiation of both the far left and far right of the political spectrum. At a time of tumult, Americans gravitated towards the centre. They bucked Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary and then voted out Donald Trump. Americans want respite from disruption and zero-sum politics.

Many people around the world also wanted a break from the tumult. The fact that Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, publicly congratulated Biden on his victory before he had even claimed the win, says it all.

Every election is deemed important. Every election is crucial. Biden has been in American politics for 47 years. He knows his nation and his people better than most. How he handles the next few weeks will determine whether he succeeds or fails.

While many people these days eschew the big hug, Biden needs to be himself. He is a hugger and healer. He shows emotion and empathy. All Americans need a hug to get through the rollercoaster of the next few months. If nothing else, being Biden will be his great legacy.

Joe Hockey is a former federal treasurer and ambassador to the US. He is president of advisory firm Bondi Partners.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/us-election-2020-now-is-the-time-to-heal-americas-soul/news-story/0545f24bd77a952a4c326f60d9884dc2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr_7NtQrJv4

#11552852 at 2020-11-09 05:01:54 (UTC+1)
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Americans need a hug to get through the months ahead

Mary Milwaukee was the key to the swing states. But she wanted her President to have Biden's demeanour with Trump's policies.

Joe Hockey - November 8, 2020

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The American people have spoken. Joe Biden deserved to win.

When I wrote two weeks ago that our fictional swing voter Mary Milwaukee had made up her mind to vote for Joe Biden readers lambasted me as anti-Trump. It turns out that her vote made the difference.

Mary wanted her President to have Joe Biden's demeanour with Donald Trump's policies.

This election was always pro-Trump vs anti-Trump. It was not right vs left or even Trump vs Biden. This election went beyond the traditional battle formulas.

Mary Milwaukee ignored the tweets, narcissism and shenanigans because she supported Trump's policies on the economy, law and order, the environment, border control and draining the swamp in Washington DC.

She wanted her son to come back from Afghanistan and her husband to hold his job as a truck driver. In particular she wanted her daughter to have a chance to go to college. Her higher wages and her husband's new-found job security made that more possible. She thought the coronavirus would pass and that Trump would protect her and her family.

But when Trump fell ill with coronavirus it became clear through his own words and behaviour that the President was more focused on himself than the health and welfare of Mary and her family.

Trump's confused messages on the coronavirus combined with the impact of a horrible new outbreak of the virus in her local Wisconsin community were the end for Mary.

It was the same suburban white women, and their parents, that voted for Trump in 2016 that abandoned him four years later.

Trump knew it was coming so he responded by trying to broaden his voter base. This was not the normal Republican play. Political folklore says that Democrats win by getting more people to vote, and Republicans win by suppressing the votes. This election smashed that theory.

Trump grew the Republican vote in America by more than 10 per cent over George Bush's high water mark in 2004. He won 10 million more votes than his GOP predecessor Mitt Romney.

He also defied stereotypes. More Hispanics and black men voted for Trump than in 2016. This confounded Democrats. Trump also picked up more first time young voters than expected.

Trump's enthusiasm and energy clawed back the campaign. Arguably, if the election had gone on another week then Donald Trump may have won. No sensible analysis would suggest the Democrats had momentum at the end of the campaign. Early voting trends confirm that Biden won the early campaign.

He had to get more votes than any other presidential candidate in history to beat Trump. It was a magnificent and heroic victory. It took more money, more third-party advocacy and more unity than ever before to beat a candidate that has disrupted American politics and turned modern political battle on its head.

His moderate policies and unifying message vaulted him over the line in key states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. But only just.

(continued)

#11537585 at 2020-11-08 06:12:44 (UTC+1)
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Anthony Albanese calls on Scott Morrison to 'dissociate' himself from colleagues spreading Trump fraud claims

The federal Opposition leader has given Prime Minister Scott Morrison some firm advice following the US election.

Jack Paynter - NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Federal Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has called for Prime Minister Scott Morrison to "dissociate himself" from members of his government who are questioning America's democratic process.

The Labor leader congratulated President-elect Joe Biden on Sunday morning after his victory was declared at about 3.30am AEDT.

Mr Albanese said it was good that Mr Morrison had accepted the election outcome and also congratulated President-elect Biden.

"What I suggested was that Scott Morrison needs to stand up for democracy. He's done that in acknowledging the election of President-elect Biden," he said.

"The other thing that needs to happen is that Scott Morrison needs to dissociate himself and his government from government members who are questioning the democratic process and continue to do so."

"The fact is that these conspiracy theories do nothing to advance our common interest of standing up for democratic values," Mr Albanese said.

"You can't have the leader of the Australian Government saying one thing and members of his own party saying something very different."

Mr Albanese's comments come after the federal Coalition MP for Dawson, George Christensen, continued to peddle misleading claims about the US election.

Mr Christensen posted to Facebook on Thursday that his prediction President Trump would win "didn't take Democrat vote fraud into account".

Joe Hockey, former Liberal treasurer and the Australian ambassador to the US for four years between 2016 and 2020, was widely criticised over his comments on 2GB about voter fraud.

He said there were "plenty of good reasons" for Mr Trump to challenge the results and said he found it "hard to believe" 93 per cent of people in Washington DC voted for Biden.

When asked about President Trump's refusal to concede on Sunday morning, Mr Morrison said he had "great confidence" in American democracy.

"I have great confidence in the American democracy and I have been expressing those consistently," Mr Morrison said when asked what Australia would do in the event Mr Trump refused to leave.

"This is not a new process, it is time honoured and time established process and I have confidence it will resolve itself in time."

Mr Morrison said he would continue to "work closely" with President Trump and his administration during the transition period between now and January 20.

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/anthony-albanese-calls-on-scott-morrison-to-dissociate-himself-from-colleagues-spreading-trump-fraud-claims/news-story/b536d504eb6c556140b5c0d5db8cc395

#11509006 at 2020-11-06 23:54:12 (UTC+1)
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>>11508936

2/2

Voter suppression has bigger ramifications. It can lead to the impression that your vote will never count and there's no good reason to vote anyway.

In Washington DC, 93 per cent of the people voted for Joe Biden. This is in line with the last three presidential elections, but for an entire city of 700,000 people to vote consistently around 90 per cent for one party is extraordinary.

This has prompted claims that DC residents are taking advantage of grey state residency rules to allow them to cast their ballots in cities where their vote will count at the federal level. (And despite having a population bigger than Wyoming and Vermont, Washington DC residents don't have anyone voting for them in congress).

In Pennsylvania, in an appeal we are sure to hear more about, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld a ruling that there was no need for the signatures on a person's electoral file and on their mail-in ballot to match. And yet it is the only form of proof of identity that exists for ballots in the state.

That this change of rules took place just 10 days out from the election generated mass cries of fraud from Republicans. We will hear more about this over the next few weeks.

But it is not just voter suppression that gives rise to allegations of fraud. Complex ballot papers, booth locations and varying requirements for entitlement to vote are all weaponised for political purposes.

In Mississippi, a foreign-born citizen needs to be able to prove their naturalisation in order to register to vote.

In 11 US states, it is still unlawful for a convicted felon to ever be able to vote. Never mind that some people are convicted felons for minor non-violent crimes including unpaid traffic fines. It so happens that there is a disproportionate number of African-Americans that are convicted felons, largely due to the way the US justice system is set up.

In Florida, even though Floridians voted to allow felons to vote following the 2018 elections, the state legislature enacted laws in 2019 that forced felons to pay any and all court fees before being allowed to cast their ballot. This was tied up in the courts this year. The felony disenfranchisement clause had been in Florida's state constitution since 1838.

Because of the highly decentralised American system, so much electoral reform seems to be political jockeying.

Everything to do with electoral reform in America is seen through the political prism.

The District of Columbia is 93 per cent Democrat and only the Democrats want to make it a state.

When Alaska and Hawaii were given full state rights in 1956, it came about only because the congress accepted that, politically, the then Republican Hawaii would offset the then Democrat Alaska. How the worm turns.

In modern US politics there is a lot of shouting. Feigned outrage and indignant lecturing is par for the course. Hyperventilating surrogates who have never run in an election are the worst offenders. Their outrage is 24/7. They usually interview each other on TV.

In a genuine democracy, everyone should be able to cast their votes freely. The ballot process and administration should be consistent across the entire jurisdiction where the candidates are running.

Every ballot lodged fairly should be counted and every voter should be given every opportunity to cast their ballot.

The complexity of American politics is nothing new. Nor is the allegation of electoral fraud. It's just that these days it seems different. Social media has made the outrage louder and the criticism sharper.

Whatever the case, in a robust democracy elections should always have the same rules on the same ballot. The Americans still have a long way to go.

Joe Hockey is a former federal treasurer and ambassador to the US. He is president of advisory firm Bondi Partners. He will be appearing at The Australian's Strategic Forum on November 18-19.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/us-election-2020-voter-suppression-rife-in-deeply-flawed-system/news-story/bb4bca949fd7d84953c01364feff1b06

#11508936 at 2020-11-06 23:50:18 (UTC+1)
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>>11474232
>>11474294
US election 2020: Voter suppression rife in deeply flawed system

Joe Hockey - NOVEMBER 6, 2020

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Over the next few weeks, the United States will tear itself apart as lawyers take the election battle into courts across the country. It's a sad end to an amazingly competitive campaign that delivered the largest voter turnout since 1900.

To be clear, it's usually the losing party that alleges fraud at the ballot box. Both the Democrats and Republicans have alleged plenty of fraud over the years. And inquiries, Department of Justice reports and many different courts have found that electoral fraud exists in a limited form. The challenge is to remain vigilant and make sure there is no opportunity for it to become mainstream.

The US electoral system is extremely complicated. More than 10,000 different entities are responsible for the administration of the presidential campaign. The voting rules are usually set by state governments and administered by counties and cities. The rules keep changing as each election approaches.

This is completely at odds with the Australian experience, where federal elections are handled by the Australian Electoral Commission. The AEC is an ­independent national entity with administrative responsibilities for every vote, polling booth and electoral boundary. Sounds simple enough.

The more complex the electoral system, the more susceptible it is to fraud. There are many mechanisms for electoral fraud but the one that Australians are not familiar with is ­illegal voter suppression. This has been a longtime hot-button issue in US politics.

Following the Jim Crow era and smack dab in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, the United States congress set into law the 1965 Voting Rights Act prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. The fact that legislation had to be enacted to protect the rights of people to vote, even though the US Constitution guarantees this right to vote, reflects the overt deep political and racial divisions evident at the time.

In 1965, the states in focus were mostly Democratic. In the south, the "Dixiecrats" that were backing Lyndon B Johnson for president were suppressing African-Americans' voting rights. When Johnson eventually passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, "Dixiecrats" were furious with the president they helped elect. Johnson did the right thing. Even though African-Americans won the right to vote at the end of the US civil war 100 years earlier, voter suppression was rife. There were reading tests that black voters had to pass in order to vote, exorbitant poll taxes, voter intimidation and a wide range of measures taken to ensure it would be as hard and as dangerous as possible for black Americans to vote.

That's why voter fraud, and in this case suppression, is such a sensitive issue in the US.

In Australia, compulsory voting removes the issue of voter suppression. Having an independent electoral agency also removes the issue of political bias, either in the location of ballot boxes or on the setting of electoral boundaries.

The most recent example of voter suppression in the US was a few weeks ago in Harris County, which houses the city of Houston, Texas, and is home to 4.7 million people. The local administrator set up 12 booths for early voting. Republican Governor Greg Abbott then ordered that there could be only one booth for each county. Keep in mind that in land area, Harris County is larger than the state of Rhode Island. And it has more citizens than 27 states and the District of Columbia.

After a lawsuit, the decision to remove the ballot boxes went to court and, on appeal, the Governor's ruling was upheld.

Harris County is a Democratic oasis in mainly red Texas. This year some 56 per cent voted for Joe Biden.

Democrats claimed "fraud" and that the Governor was "suppressing" the vote. Democrats have already flagged that there will be further legal challenges to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to allow the Governor to set the booth limit.

(continued)

#11474294 at 2020-11-05 08:27:45 (UTC+1)
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>>11474232
US election 2020: Joe Hockey's voter fraud comments are dangerous

CAROLINE OVERINGTON - NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Joe Hockey is wrong.

Moreover, his remarks this morning were alarming.

On Ben Fordham's 2GB breakfast show, Australia former ambassador to Washington said there had "for sure" been electoral fraud in the US overnight.

This closely echoes Donald Trump's words: "This is a fraud on the American public."

Hockey added: "There's plenty of good reason to have litigation."

This is such a damaging and dangerous thing for Australia's immediate past top official to say.

Where is the evidence?

Well, Hockey said, Washington DC had voted 93 per cent for Biden, and "I find it hard to believe".

"Even my best booth in Longueville (NSW) I got 83 per cent," he added, all jocular. Asked if there must therefore have been fraud, he said: "For sure."

This is just ignorant.

The vote in DC has always been heavily Democratic.

No Republican has ever won there.

In the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton received 90.5 per cent of the vote.

In 2012, Barack Obama received 90.9 per cent of the vote.

In 2008, Obama got 92. 5 per cent.

It's entirely plausible that Biden got 93 per cent.

How is it that Joe Hockey seems not to know this?

Haven't we only just stopped paying him -handsomely - to represent our interests there?

But let's put that aside for a moment.

Australian officials, and ex-officials, should not be making mischief of this kind.

The path to the presidency in the US is properly via the ballot box.

The US is as we speak a nation under immense stress, with half the votes going one way, and half the other way.

Australia's role here isn't to plant seeds of doubt, and disunity.

The last thing Australia as a nation needs is headlines across the world: "Australia's former top official sides with Trump on allegations of fraud!"

We are not meant to have a dog in the fight.

We can get on with whomever they choose.

In the meantime, serious commentators, respectful of democracy, are urging the vote-counters to simply carry on.

Count every vote.

Keep going and do not stop and not be distracted. Give the people their US birthright, which is to decide.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/us-election-2020-Joe-Hockeys-voter-fraud-comments-are-dangerous/news-story/44b62904cc5c72added7ec6ddfa22a00

#11474232 at 2020-11-05 08:18:44 (UTC+1)
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US electoral counting system is a 'complete dog's breakfast': Joe Hockey

Sky News Australia

Published on 4 Nov 2020

Joe Hockey has labelled the US electoral system a "complete dog's breakfast" which the Australian government would not consider to be particularly helpful, according to Andrew Clennell.

During an interview with Ben Fordham, Mr Hockey said the counting process was a "complete dog's breakfast" and not just in Pennsylvania where President Trump's team had filed lawsuits.

"There are 10,000 different organisations responsible for setting the rules on the US Presidential election," Mr Hockey said.

He also indicated that the possibility of electoral fraud was high but the critical factor would be if it "changes the electoral outcome".

Mr Clennell said he was unsure whether the "Australian government would see this as so helpful," given Joe Hockey's previous diplomatic posting as Australian Ambassador to the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKUsu97SVlU

#11414903 at 2020-11-02 23:27:13 (UTC+1)
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#10 - Part 4
Australian Politics and Society - Part 4
>>11319051 US Election 2020: Why Donald Trump will win again on November 3 - Ben Graham - news.com.au
>>11319280 Japanese Hentai Is Now Banned in Australia - regarded as "illegal pornography" following fears of child porn being brought into the country
>>11319297 Japanese adult retailer J-List statement - "Australia Bans Waifus, Onaholes, and Fun!"
>>11319746 Video: 'Blood lust, killings, cover-ups': Report describes Australian special forces soldiers' 'Abu Ghraib' moment
>>11338405 Jeffrey Epstein donated $650k to Kevin Rudd's International Peace Institute
>>11338560, >>11339269 Video: Kevin Rudd's denial of Jeffrey Epstein donation 'not credible' says Peter Dutton
>>11339701 University of Melbourne academic Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert in 'secret safe house' in Iran
>>11353447 Video: Trump will be 'annihilated' by Biden: Anthony Scaramucci - 9 News Australia
>>11355482 President of Kevin Rudd's International Peace Institute quits over Jeffrey Epstein loan
>>11355493 PDF: Statement by the Board of the International Peace Institute - RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT TERJE RØD-LARSEN

>>11355874 'I don't give a f**k what you think about me': Vegan cafe brands itself a Trump-supporting 'safe zone' ahead of the US election
>>11356010 Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison
>>11356072 Former national security adviser Andrew Shearer will be the next Director-General of the Office of National Intelligence
>>11356149 Australia's domestic spy agency ASIO seeks new powers to question children as young as 14 and people suspected of foreign influence
>>11356523 Q Post #4941 - OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DONALD J. TRUMP - Carlo Maria Viganò, Tit. Archbishop of Ulpiana
>>11369364 Video: Washington Insider Anthony Scaramucci On Trump's Chances Of Another Term As U.S. President - The Project
>>11371740 Disability Royal Commission needs more time to explore 'endemic' neglect, violence, abuse and exploitation of people with a disability in Australia
>>11371777 PDF: Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability - Interim report
>>11385274 'No matter who wins, the country is still going to be divided': Americans in Australia gear up for US Election
>>11386109 Rudd backs FriendlyJordies as serious 'broadcaster' despite controversial acts - 'Uighur population causing trouble, radicalised by CIA'

>>11387695 FBI fugitive Andrea Dorothy Chan Reyes secretly extradited from Adelaide to the US over 2017 hit-run death of Agustin Rodriguez Jr
>>11387711 Whittier Police Department Facebook Post: Vehicular Homicide Suspect Extradited from Australia, in Whittier Police custody
>>11399083 Kevin Rudd name-dropped by Hunter Biden's jailed associate Devon Archer in letter to US ambassador Max Baucus
>>11399083 PDF: Letter from Devon Archer, Vice Chairman BHR Partners, to Max Baucus, US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China - 30th September 2015
>>11399146 Kevin Rudd Tweet: The Murdoch personal smear efforts continue…they want to know what meetings I may have had with... wait for it... Hunter Biden!
>>11399146 Kevin Rudd Tweet: Here are the questions Murdoch put to my office last night, and the answers that were sent back
>>11402713 Why I would grit my teeth and vote for Trump - Alexander Downer
>>11402781 Video: Former foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer says the contrast between Biden and Trump couldn't be more dramatic - Sky News Australia
>>11404065 Former Special Air Service soldier and Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith asked wife to lie about his affair, court told
>>11404435 Donald Trump's passion, policies and unprecedented rally schedule mean he can still win - Joe Hockey
>>11404641 Australia's federal ICAC to conduct phone taps, undercover surveillance but not public hearings

#10 - Part 5
Australian and Regional Resignations
>>10739647 Australian judge James Spigelman resigns from Hong Kong court - no further reasons for the termination were given
>>10893345 Headmaster of Sydney private school St Joseph's College, Dr Chris Hayes, announces sudden resignation "effective immediately"
>>11034645 Chris Eccles, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews' top bureaucrat, resigns after hotel quarantine inquiry requests phone records
>>11282691 ASIC deputy chairman Daniel Crennan quits following housing expenses scandal
>>11282691 ASIC chairman James Shipton stands aside after Australian National Audit Office raises concerns over taxation expenses
>>11402587 Christine Holgate resigns as Australia Post boss after Cartier watch scandal

#11414863 at 2020-11-02 23:24:49 (UTC+1)
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#10 - Part 3
Australian Politics and Society - Part 3
>>11138660 Video: Joe Biden's son emailed shop owner about hard drive to 'get it back': Former Trump chief - Sky News Australia
>>11148533 Facebook, Google are 'likely' to ban news stories in Australia, study finds, with dangerous fallout
>>11148533 PDF: Tech-xit: Can Australia survive without Google and Facebook? - Australia Institute's Centre for Responsible Technology
>>11148648 US election 2020: Cult of Trump is not going away - Joe Hockey - theaustralian.com.au
>>11149121 Australia: Most of 1,100 refugees in US deal have resettled
>>11149121 President Donald Trump Tweet (2017): Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why?
>>11149154 Video: 'I don't tend to have communications with Donald Trump' says Jacinda Ardern - Guardian News
>>11165826 Riccardo Bosi's Virus views prompt Liberal National Party to scrap how to vote cards
>>11165826 Marty Hunt MP Facebook Post: Vote 1 Marty Hunt…here is where I appear on the ballot paper…
>>11186038 US marine says Australian special forces soldiers made 'deliberate decision to break the rules of war'

>>11127935 Pandemic linked to rise of conspiracy theories - Riccardo Bosi does not align himself with QAnon
>>11186313, >>11186335 US allege Australian gemstone trader Ahmed Luqman Talib funded al-Qaeda terror plots
>>11186561 Australia to join India, US, Japan in large naval exercises in the Indian Ocean
>>11207235 Tech giants part of a 'galactic empire': Home Affairs boss Michael Pezzullo
>>11207253 Q Post #3602 - (star-wars-commander) How do 'select' bad actors attempt comms w/o SIGINT collection? Rebellion or Empire?
>>11207253 Q Post #4000 - https://www.starwarscommander.com/transmissions/game-closure-announcement/
>>11207298 'Consequences catastrophic': Dutton says cyber attacks on critical infrastructure rising
>>11207523 National Redress Scheme: Scott Morrison names and shames groups refusing to sign up
>>11207523 Video: National Redress Scheme - Scott Morrison calls out groups refusing to sign up
>>11207934 Video shows SAS soldiers discussing a fellow operator apparently killing a 'compliant' prisoner in Afghanistan

>>11207950 Actual footage of the SAS raiding Shina village in May 2012
>>11234465 60 Minutes Australia and The Age are Fake News: American financial commentator Peter Schiff defends himself against fraudulent hit piece
>>11247677 Request For Further Dig - Foreign infiltration/influence into UNESCO Trust Funds - Great Barrier Reef Foundation
>>11248666 Biden 'child porn' shock - Hunter becomes the hunted amid claims of underage pics on his laptop - The Chronicle, October 22 2020, p. 37
>>11250005 ABC Australia shows its true colour by not reporting the Biden's scandal - gnews.org
>>11263015 Cuties retains its MA 15+ rating after Australian Christian Lobby call for review
>>11263593 Kylie Moore-Gilbert moved from Qarchak prison in Iran to mystery location
>>11283542 Australian Secret Intelligence Service Director-General Paul Symon talks about 'reasonable force', initial risks of agency
>>11283575 Video: The ASIS Interviews - No 1. The formation of ASIS - ASPICanberra
>>11283994 Australian miners urged to beware of modern slavery risks - Minerals Council of Australia and advisory firm Pilar Two

>>11283994 PDF: Respecting human rights: Guidance to assist mining companies to identify and manage modern slavery risks associated with COVID-19
>>11284162 Every restriction that is ending in Melbourne - Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has finally resolved to open Melbourne up
>>11284366 Prime Minister Scott Morrison Facebook Post: Well done and thank you to all Victorians for your patience and perseverance
>>11284386 Donut coms - Daniel Andrews also spoke of a 'dark opening' - does this link to Biden's 'dark winter' comment at the last debate?
>>11301316 Video: Josh Frydenberg delivers 'angry and emotional' speech to Parliament - Sky News Australia
>>11301336 Video: JOSH FRYDENBERG 27TH OCTOBER 2020 - Jill Jacks - "This should never have happened in the first place"
>>11301383 My wife hates Trump as much as Melania: Anthony Scaramucci unloads on Trump - smh.com.au
>>11301541 OPINION: Trump goes with his gut, even if the world beyond the US goes belly-up - Former US NatSec Advisor John Bolton - smh.com.au
>>11302438 Fairweather friends? Trump needs his fans to vote - Joe Hockey - theaustralian.com.au
>>11302533 Marngoneet prison boss Wayne Harper could be jailed for possessing and transmitting child porn

#11414831 at 2020-11-02 23:23:23 (UTC+1)
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#10 - Part 2
Australian Politics and Society - Part 2
>>10941290 Miranda Devine is a conservative Australian columnist and writer…As of early 2020, her columns appear in the New York Post
>>10941290 Coronavirus battle shows the bravery of President Trump: Devine - Miranda Devine - nypost.com
>>10941326 "Those who know Cardinal George Pell, the pope's honest former finance minister, always suspected he had been set up" - Miranda Devine
>>10960152 2020 race: Donald Trump on track to lose by a landslide - Cameron Stewart - theaustralian.com.au
>>10976399 US Embassy Canberra Twitter Thread: Ambassador Culvahouse will be sharing his outlook on the future of the #USwithAUS
>>10976399 "As long as the United States and Australia continue to work together, I am confidently optimistic about the future." - Ambassador Culvahouse
>>10976399 Transcript: Ambassador Culvahouse Speech - ASPI Indo-Pacific Leaders Dialogue - October 7, 2020
>>10976426 Video: Indo-Pacific Leaders Dialogue: The future of US-Australia relations - US Ambassador to Australia, Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr. - ASPICanberra
>>10977747 Secretary of State Michael Pompeo Tweet: Great to meet again with Australian Foreign Minister @MarisePayne…to discuss Quad cooperation
>>10977747 Foreign Minister Marise Payne Tweet: The #Quad is a diplomatic network with a positive agenda: a region governed by rules, not power

>>10979128 Awkward moment Scott Morrison confronts Leigh Sales over her 'irresponsible question' when she grills him about the US presidential election
>>10994627 National Australia Bank didn't maintain records of human traffickers until 2019
>>10994640 PDF: Parliament of Australia - Review Of The Four Major Banks - National Australia Bank - Anti-money laundering
>>11007426 SAS at war: Internal military investigation finds Ben Roberts-Smith may have threatened to shoot a fellow soldier in the back of the head
>>11008088 Freemasons NSW & ACT recruitment add in a local paper
>>11008922 ADF personnel warned about social media use after offensive Instagram account uncovered
>>11020501 US elections were changed for better (and worse) by the secret 'Australian ballot'
>>11034788 Trump needs to take fight up to Biden and land some punches - Joe Hockey - theaustralian.com.au
>>11035007, >>11035014 Democrat Barbara Bollier's praise of strict Australian gun laws roils Kansas Senate race
>>11048335 US election: Joe Biden in the White House would be good for us - Troy Bramston - theaustralian.com.au

>>11048472 Defence Minister Linda Reynolds Tweet: They operate in the shadows, but shed light that helps keep Australia safe - Defence Intelligence Organisation
>>11048507 Alarm as neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network expands to Adelaide
>>11063585 'An apocalyptic list': Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo says climate change, pandemics warrant security rethink
>>11063601 Video: Securing Australia: In conversation with Michael Pezzullo - national security in an increasingly complex and interconnected world
>>11079845 Bruce Springsteen: 'If Trump wins I'm moving to Australia' - Poppy Reid - tonedeaf.thebrag.com - tonedeaf logo symbolism
>>11080248 Pacific Marines Tweet: The ninth iteration of @mrfdarwin has wrapped up in the Northern Territory of #Australia
>>11080248 Video: Colonel David Banning, Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Commanding Officer
>>11080293 Police won't charge ABC journalist over 'Afghan Files' stories
>>11098507 NBC Moderator Savannah Guthrie (born in Melbourne, Australia) hailed for keeping Trump in check at town hall
>>11098719 Video: Savannah Guthrie: Australian-born town hall moderator who held Trump to task, married to former Al Gore political operative Michael Feldman

>>11098850 Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch Predicts a Landslide Win for Biden - THE GREAT OZ HAS SPOKEN
>>11099297 Video: Lowy Institute Live: In conversation with General James Mattis and Sir Angus Houston - https://qanon.pub/?q=mattis
>>11099672 Australian Defence Force orders ban on destruction of evidence from Afghanistan war, as inquiry into alleged war crimes nears end
>>11100195 ASIO warns foreign spies are secretly 'cultivating politicians' across Australia
>>11100315 PDF: ASIO Annual Report 2019-20 "Parliament grants ASIO extraordinary powers, but those powers must always be exercised legally and ethically"
>>11100891 'Without peer': Top spy Nick Warner, Director-General of the Office of National Intelligence to retire this year
>>11112388 US election 2020: Voters are tired of Trump's catastrophic presidency - Troy Bramston - theaustralian.com.au
>>11125093 Murder and abduction claims have Rwandan Government accused of intimidating critics in Australia
>>11125850 Video: Australia One - Riccardo Bosi Talks To Sacha Stone
>>11134109 PDF: Bit-chute replacements for YouTube patriot accounts

#11414814 at 2020-11-02 23:22:41 (UTC+1)
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Notables
are not endorsements

#10 - Part 1
Australian Politics and Society - Part 1
>>10723064 US election headed for chaos and courts - what price President Pelosi? - Joe Hockey - theaustralian.com.au
>>10729936 'Shrouded in secrecy': ASD to be grilled over axed official history
>>10739927 Australian College of Nursing - Nurses have a role in protecting victims of human trafficking
>>10739927 Australian College of Nursing - Human Trafficking Position Statement
>>10739977 Video: The Hunt for Britain's Slave Gangs - Exposing a predatory network of human traffickers - Four Corners Australia / BBC Panorama
>>10740978 ASIO's case load jumps as pandemic fuels far-right extremism
>>10741209 Conspiracy theorist ordered to pay $875,000 for online posts about Nationals MP Anne Webster
>>10741209 PDF: FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA - Webster v Brewer (No 3) [2020] FCA 1343
>>10743042 Why would Daniel Andrews be holding a badge "I'm ready for Hillary"? Why is he standing in front of Alice in Wonderland art?
>>10752613 US involved in major Bathurst granny flat raid over alleged international drug and firearm crimes

>>10752932 Paul Keating's daughter Alexandra dating Hollywood director Rupert Sanders
>>10753030 International Sting Against Dark Web Vendors Leads To 179 Arrests
>>10753093 Facebook suddenly refuses to appear before foreign interference committee
>>10753446 US Embassy Canberra Tweet: One year ago this week: The United States hosted Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his wife Jenny
>>10766769 FBI offers $15k reward for info on New Zealander facing charges - Michael James Pratt has ties to, or may visit Australia
>>10766781 PDF: WANTED BY THE FBI - MICHAEL JAMES PRATT - Conspiracy to Commit Sex Trafficking by Force, Production of Child Pornography
>>10780602 Video: President Donald Trump has emphatically declared "the best is yet to come" - Sky News Australia
>>10780815 (2016) Andrews Labor Government Forging Early Childhood Links With China - Minister for Families and Children Jenny Mikakos
>>10781504 Leftist media 'willing to have lives lost' as a result of hatred for Trump - Sky News Australia
>>10794782 A warrior culture and the murders that followed: What went wrong with the SAS

>>10794991 Darwin man charged with exit trafficking his wife from Australia to India
>>10795091 Cocks and Stirrers: Markers on the path to the SAS going rogue
>>10804582 What are the Keating kids up to these days?
>>10806162 The Fabian Society and Julia Gillard
>>10830920 Owner of some of Australia's biggest retail brands slammed as 'unethical'
>>10831100 Lisa Barsoomian in Gumshoe News - Mentions Alexander Downer, 2001-2005 and Clinton Foundation
>>10832471 Fallen police honoured on National Police Remembrance Day
>>10832471 Video: Australian Federal Police - National Police Remembrance Day 2020 - #NeverForgotten
>>10832521 Video: The 'Trump Doctrine' earns President third Nobel Peace Prize nomination - Sky News Australia
>>10866643 Trump's Rare Earth Executive Order boosts Australia's Lynas Corp

>>10866643 Executive Order on Addressing the Threat to the Domestic Supply Chain from Reliance on Critical Minerals from Foreign Adversaries
>>10866956 Australian government cites 'chilling effect' on cabinet in bid to block release of papers in Timor-Leste spy case
>>10881623 Former Australian foreign minister ALEXANDER DOWNER: We kept people traffickers out... Britain can too
>>10889784 Troops warned of Afghanistan war crimes shock - Chief of Army Lieutenant General Rick Burr
>>10892890 Army sharpens focus on ethical soldiering amid war crimes allegations
>>10907296 Sovereign citizens on NSW counter-terrorism police watch list
>>10917597 Video: The Tara Reade interview: accusing Joe Biden of sexual assault | 60 Minutes Australia
>>10927542 Trump will lose by making it all about himself - Alexander Downer, Australian Financial Review
>>10928251 ADF Special Forces to receive ethical leadership training
>>10941290 President Trump Tweets @MirandaDevine @NYPost Thank you Miranda. Was over until the Plague came in from China. Will win anyway!

#11414100 at 2020-11-02 22:48:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition

#10 - Part 4
Australian Politics and Society - Part 4
>>11319051 US Election 2020: Why Donald Trump will win again on November 3 - Ben Graham - news.com.au
>>11319280 Japanese Hentai Is Now Banned in Australia - regarded as "illegal pornography" following fears of child porn being brought into the country
>>11319297 Japanese adult retailer J-List statement - "Australia Bans Waifus, Onaholes, and Fun!"
>>11319746 Video: 'Blood lust, killings, cover-ups': Report describes Australian special forces soldiers' 'Abu Ghraib' moment
>>11338405 Jeffrey Epstein donated $650k to Kevin Rudd's International Peace Institute
>>11338560, >>11339269 Video: Kevin Rudd's denial of Jeffrey Epstein donation 'not credible' says Peter Dutton
>>11339701 University of Melbourne academic Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert in 'secret safe house' in Iran
>>11353447 Video: Trump will be 'annihilated' by Biden: Anthony Scaramucci - 9 News Australia
>>11355482 President of Kevin Rudd's International Peace Institute quits over Jeffrey Epstein loan
>>11355493 PDF: Statement by the Board of the International Peace Institute - RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT TERJE RØD-LARSEN

>>11355874 'I don't give a f**k what you think about me': Vegan cafe brands itself a Trump-supporting 'safe zone' ahead of the US election
>>11356010 Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison
>>11356072 Former national security adviser Andrew Shearer will be the next Director-General of the Office of National Intelligence
>>11356149 Australia's domestic spy agency ASIO seeks new powers to question children as young as 14 and people suspected of foreign influence
>>11356523 Q Post #4941 - OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DONALD J. TRUMP - Carlo Maria Viganò, Tit. Archbishop of Ulpiana
>>11369364 Video: Washington Insider Anthony Scaramucci On Trump's Chances Of Another Term As U.S. President - The Project
>>11371740 Disability Royal Commission needs more time to explore 'endemic' neglect, violence, abuse and exploitation of people with a disability in Australia
>>11371777 PDF: Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability - Interim report
>>11385274 'No matter who wins, the country is still going to be divided': Americans in Australia gear up for US Election
>>11386109 Rudd backs FriendlyJordies as serious 'broadcaster' despite controversial acts - 'Uighur population causing trouble, radicalised by CIA'

>>11387695 FBI fugitive Andrea Dorothy Chan Reyes secretly extradited from Adelaide to the US over 2017 hit-run death of Agustin Rodriguez Jr
>>11387711 Whittier Police Department Facebook Post: Vehicular Homicide Suspect Extradited from Australia, in Whittier Police custody
>>11399083 Kevin Rudd name-dropped by Hunter Biden's jailed associate Devon Archer in letter to US ambassador Max Baucus
>>11399083 PDF: Letter from Devon Archer, Vice Chairman BHR Partners, to Max Baucus, US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China - 30th September 2015
>>11399146 Kevin Rudd Tweet: The Murdoch personal smear efforts continue…they want to know what meetings I may have had with... wait for it... Hunter Biden!
>>11399146 Kevin Rudd Tweet: Here are the questions Murdoch put to my office last night, and the answers that were sent back
>>11402713 Why I would grit my teeth and vote for Trump - Alexander Downer
>>11402781 Video: Former foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer says the contrast between Biden and Trump couldn't be more dramatic - Sky News Australia
>>11404065 Former Special Air Service soldier and Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith asked wife to lie about his affair, court told
>>11404435 Donald Trump's passion, policies and unprecedented rally schedule mean he can still win - Joe Hockey
>>11404641 Australia's federal ICAC to conduct phone taps, undercover surveillance but not public hearings

#10 - Part 5
Australian and Regional Resignations
>>10739647 Australian judge James Spigelman resigns from Hong Kong court - no further reasons for the termination were given
>>10893345 Headmaster of Sydney private school St Joseph's College, Dr Chris Hayes, announces sudden resignation "effective immediately"
>>11034645 Chris Eccles, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews' top bureaucrat, resigns after hotel quarantine inquiry requests phone records
>>11282691 ASIC deputy chairman Daniel Crennan quits following housing expenses scandal
>>11282691 ASIC chairman James Shipton stands aside after Australian National Audit Office raises concerns over taxation expenses
>>11402587 Christine Holgate resigns as Australia Post boss after Cartier watch scandal

#11414023 at 2020-11-02 22:44:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition

#10 - Part 3
Australian Politics and Society - Part 3
>>11138660 Video: Joe Biden's son emailed shop owner about hard drive to 'get it back': Former Trump chief - Sky News Australia
>>11148533 Facebook, Google are 'likely' to ban news stories in Australia, study finds, with dangerous fallout
>>11148533 PDF: Tech-xit: Can Australia survive without Google and Facebook? - Australia Institute's Centre for Responsible Technology
>>11148648 US election 2020: Cult of Trump is not going away - Joe Hockey - theaustralian.com.au
>>11149121 Australia: Most of 1,100 refugees in US deal have resettled
>>11149121 President Donald Trump Tweet (2017): Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why?
>>11149154 Video: 'I don't tend to have communications with Donald Trump' says Jacinda Ardern - Guardian News
>>11165826 Riccardo Bosi's Virus views prompt Liberal National Party to scrap how to vote cards
>>11165826 Marty Hunt MP Facebook Post: Vote 1 Marty Hunt…here is where I appear on the ballot paper…
>>11186038 US marine says Australian special forces soldiers made 'deliberate decision to break the rules of war'

>>11127935 Pandemic linked to rise of conspiracy theories - Riccardo Bosi does not align himself with QAnon
>>11186313, >>11186335 US allege Australian gemstone trader Ahmed Luqman Talib funded al-Qaeda terror plots
>>11186561 Australia to join India, US, Japan in large naval exercises in the Indian Ocean
>>11207235 Tech giants part of a 'galactic empire': Home Affairs boss Michael Pezzullo
>>11207253 Q Post #3602 - (star-wars-commander) How do 'select' bad actors attempt comms w/o SIGINT collection? Rebellion or Empire?
>>11207253 Q Post #4000 - https://www.starwarscommander.com/transmissions/game-closure-announcement/
>>11207298 'Consequences catastrophic': Dutton says cyber attacks on critical infrastructure rising
>>11207523 National Redress Scheme: Scott Morrison names and shames groups refusing to sign up
>>11207523 Video: National Redress Scheme - Scott Morrison calls out groups refusing to sign up
>>11207934 Video shows SAS soldiers discussing a fellow operator apparently killing a 'compliant' prisoner in Afghanistan

>>11207950 Actual footage of the SAS raiding Shina village in May 2012
>>11234465 60 Minutes Australia and The Age are Fake News: American financial commentator Peter Schiff defends himself against fraudulent hit piece
>>11247677 Request For Further Dig - Foreign infiltration/influence into UNESCO Trust Funds - Great Barrier Reef Foundation
>>11248666 Biden 'child porn' shock - Hunter becomes the hunted amid claims of underage pics on his laptop - The Chronicle, October 22 2020, p. 37
>>11250005 ABC Australia shows its true colour by not reporting the Biden's scandal - gnews.org
>>11263015 Cuties retains its MA 15+ rating after Australian Christian Lobby call for review
>>11263593 Kylie Moore-Gilbert moved from Qarchak prison in Iran to mystery location
>>11283542 Australian Secret Intelligence Service Director-General Paul Symon talks about 'reasonable force', initial risks of agency
>>11283575 Video: The ASIS Interviews - No 1. The formation of ASIS - ASPICanberra
>>11283994 Australian miners urged to beware of modern slavery risks - Minerals Council of Australia and advisory firm Pilar Two

>>11283994 PDF: Respecting human rights: Guidance to assist mining companies to identify and manage modern slavery risks associated with COVID-19
>>11284162 Every restriction that is ending in Melbourne - Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has finally resolved to open Melbourne up
>>11284366 Prime Minister Scott Morrison Facebook Post: Well done and thank you to all Victorians for your patience and perseverance
>>11284386 Donut coms - Daniel Andrews also spoke of a 'dark opening' - does this link to Biden's 'dark winter' comment at the last debate?
>>11301316 Video: Josh Frydenberg delivers 'angry and emotional' speech to Parliament - Sky News Australia
>>11301336 Video: JOSH FRYDENBERG 27TH OCTOBER 2020 - Jill Jacks - "This should never have happened in the first place"
>>11301383 My wife hates Trump as much as Melania: Anthony Scaramucci unloads on Trump - smh.com.au
>>11301541 OPINION: Trump goes with his gut, even if the world beyond the US goes belly-up - Former US NatSec Advisor John Bolton - smh.com.au
>>11302438 Fairweather friends? Trump needs his fans to vote - Joe Hockey - theaustralian.com.au
>>11302533 Marngoneet prison boss Wayne Harper could be jailed for possessing and transmitting child porn

#11413969 at 2020-11-02 22:41:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition

#10 - Part 2
Australian Politics and Society - Part 2
>>10941290 Miranda Devine is a conservative Australian columnist and writer…As of early 2020, her columns appear in the New York Post
>>10941290 Coronavirus battle shows the bravery of President Trump: Devine - Miranda Devine - nypost.com
>>10941326 "Those who know Cardinal George Pell, the pope's honest former finance minister, always suspected he had been set up" - Miranda Devine
>>10960152 2020 race: Donald Trump on track to lose by a landslide - Cameron Stewart - theaustralian.com.au
>>10976399 US Embassy Canberra Twitter Thread: Ambassador Culvahouse will be sharing his outlook on the future of the #USwithAUS
>>10976399 "As long as the United States and Australia continue to work together, I am confidently optimistic about the future." - Ambassador Culvahouse
>>10976399 Transcript: Ambassador Culvahouse Speech - ASPI Indo-Pacific Leaders Dialogue - October 7, 2020
>>10976426 Video: Indo-Pacific Leaders Dialogue: The future of US-Australia relations - US Ambassador to Australia, Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr. - ASPICanberra
>>10977747 Secretary of State Michael Pompeo Tweet: Great to meet again with Australian Foreign Minister @MarisePayne…to discuss Quad cooperation
>>10977747 Foreign Minister Marise Payne Tweet: The #Quad is a diplomatic network with a positive agenda: a region governed by rules, not power

>>10979128 Awkward moment Scott Morrison confronts Leigh Sales over her 'irresponsible question' when she grills him about the US presidential election
>>10994627 National Australia Bank didn't maintain records of human traffickers until 2019
>>10994640 PDF: Parliament of Australia - Review Of The Four Major Banks - National Australia Bank - Anti-money laundering
>>11007426 SAS at war: Internal military investigation finds Ben Roberts-Smith may have threatened to shoot a fellow soldier in the back of the head
>>11008088 Freemasons NSW & ACT recruitment add in a local paper
>>11008922 ADF personnel warned about social media use after offensive Instagram account uncovered
>>11020501 US elections were changed for better (and worse) by the secret 'Australian ballot'
>>11034788 Trump needs to take fight up to Biden and land some punches - Joe Hockey - theaustralian.com.au
>>11035007, >>11035014 Democrat Barbara Bollier's praise of strict Australian gun laws roils Kansas Senate race
>>11048335 US election: Joe Biden in the White House would be good for us - Troy Bramston - theaustralian.com.au

>>11048472 Defence Minister Linda Reynolds Tweet: They operate in the shadows, but shed light that helps keep Australia safe - Defence Intelligence Organisation
>>11048507 Alarm as neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network expands to Adelaide
>>11063585 'An apocalyptic list': Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo says climate change, pandemics warrant security rethink
>>11063601 Video: Securing Australia: In conversation with Michael Pezzullo - national security in an increasingly complex and interconnected world
>>11079845 Bruce Springsteen: 'If Trump wins I'm moving to Australia' - Poppy Reid - tonedeaf.thebrag.com - tonedeaf logo symbolism
>>11080248 Pacific Marines Tweet: The ninth iteration of @mrfdarwin has wrapped up in the Northern Territory of #Australia
>>11080248 Video: Colonel David Banning, Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Commanding Officer
>>11080293 Police won't charge ABC journalist over 'Afghan Files' stories
>>11098507 NBC Moderator Savannah Guthrie (born in Melbourne, Australia) hailed for keeping Trump in check at town hall
>>11098719 Video: Savannah Guthrie: Australian-born town hall moderator who held Trump to task, married to former Al Gore political operative Michael Feldman

>>11098850 Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch Predicts a Landslide Win for Biden - THE GREAT OZ HAS SPOKEN
>>11099297 Video: Lowy Institute Live: In conversation with General James Mattis and Sir Angus Houston - https://qanon.pub/?q=mattis
>>11099672 Australian Defence Force orders ban on destruction of evidence from Afghanistan war, as inquiry into alleged war crimes nears end
>>11100195 ASIO warns foreign spies are secretly 'cultivating politicians' across Australia
>>11100315 PDF: ASIO Annual Report 2019-20 "Parliament grants ASIO extraordinary powers, but those powers must always be exercised legally and ethically"
>>11100891 'Without peer': Top spy Nick Warner, Director-General of the Office of National Intelligence to retire this year
>>11112388 US election 2020: Voters are tired of Trump's catastrophic presidency - Troy Bramston - theaustralian.com.au
>>11125093 Murder and abduction claims have Rwandan Government accused of intimidating critics in Australia
>>11125850 Video: Australia One - Riccardo Bosi Talks To Sacha Stone
>>11134109 PDF: Bit-chute replacements for YouTube patriot accounts

#11413946 at 2020-11-02 22:40:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition

Notables
are not endorsements

#10 - Part 1
Australian Politics and Society - Part 1
>>10723064 US election headed for chaos and courts - what price President Pelosi? - Joe Hockey - theaustralian.com.au
>>10729936 'Shrouded in secrecy': ASD to be grilled over axed official history
>>10739927 Australian College of Nursing - Nurses have a role in protecting victims of human trafficking
>>10739927 Australian College of Nursing - Human Trafficking Position Statement
>>10739977 Video: The Hunt for Britain's Slave Gangs - Exposing a predatory network of human traffickers - Four Corners Australia / BBC Panorama
>>10740978 ASIO's case load jumps as pandemic fuels far-right extremism
>>10741209 Conspiracy theorist ordered to pay $875,000 for online posts about Nationals MP Anne Webster
>>10741209 PDF: FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA - Webster v Brewer (No 3) [2020] FCA 1343
>>10743042 Why would Daniel Andrews be holding a badge "I'm ready for Hillary"? Why is he standing in front of Alice in Wonderland art?
>>10752613 US involved in major Bathurst granny flat raid over alleged international drug and firearm crimes

>>10752932 Paul Keating's daughter Alexandra dating Hollywood director Rupert Sanders
>>10753030 International Sting Against Dark Web Vendors Leads To 179 Arrests
>>10753093 Facebook suddenly refuses to appear before foreign interference committee
>>10753446 US Embassy Canberra Tweet: One year ago this week: The United States hosted Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his wife Jenny
>>10766769 FBI offers $15k reward for info on New Zealander facing charges - Michael James Pratt has ties to, or may visit Australia
>>10766781 PDF: WANTED BY THE FBI - MICHAEL JAMES PRATT - Conspiracy to Commit Sex Trafficking by Force, Production of Child Pornography
>>10780602 Video: President Donald Trump has emphatically declared "the best is yet to come" - Sky News Australia
>>10780815 (2016) Andrews Labor Government Forging Early Childhood Links With China - Minister for Families and Children Jenny Mikakos
>>10781504 Leftist media 'willing to have lives lost' as a result of hatred for Trump - Sky News Australia
>>10794782 A warrior culture and the murders that followed: What went wrong with the SAS

>>10794991 Darwin man charged with exit trafficking his wife from Australia to India
>>10795091 Cocks and Stirrers: Markers on the path to the SAS going rogue
>>10804582 What are the Keating kids up to these days?
>>10806162 The Fabian Society and Julia Gillard
>>10830920 Owner of some of Australia's biggest retail brands slammed as 'unethical'
>>10831100 Lisa Barsoomian in Gumshoe News - Mentions Alexander Downer, 2001-2005 and Clinton Foundation
>>10832471 Fallen police honoured on National Police Remembrance Day
>>10832471 Video: Australian Federal Police - National Police Remembrance Day 2020 - #NeverForgotten
>>10832521 Video: The 'Trump Doctrine' earns President third Nobel Peace Prize nomination - Sky News Australia
>>10866643 Trump's Rare Earth Executive Order boosts Australia's Lynas Corp

>>10866643 Executive Order on Addressing the Threat to the Domestic Supply Chain from Reliance on Critical Minerals from Foreign Adversaries
>>10866956 Australian government cites 'chilling effect' on cabinet in bid to block release of papers in Timor-Leste spy case
>>10881623 Former Australian foreign minister ALEXANDER DOWNER: We kept people traffickers out... Britain can too
>>10889784 Troops warned of Afghanistan war crimes shock - Chief of Army Lieutenant General Rick Burr
>>10892890 Army sharpens focus on ethical soldiering amid war crimes allegations
>>10907296 Sovereign citizens on NSW counter-terrorism police watch list
>>10917597 Video: The Tara Reade interview: accusing Joe Biden of sexual assault | 60 Minutes Australia
>>10927542 Trump will lose by making it all about himself - Alexander Downer, Australian Financial Review
>>10928251 ADF Special Forces to receive ethical leadership training
>>10941290 President Trump Tweets @MirandaDevine @NYPost Thank you Miranda. Was over until the Plague came in from China. Will win anyway!

#11404435 at 2020-11-02 08:04:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition

Trump's energy amping up race

Donald Trump's passion, policies and unprecedented rally schedule mean he can still win.

Joe Hockey - November 1, 2020

1/2

Anyone calling the outcome of the US presidential election is either guessing or gambling.

Opinion polls, advertising spends, rallies and media advocacy can't make up for the fact that a phenomenal early voting turnout combined with a rampant pandemic have made this election unreadable.

To make it even more confusing, the American electoral system is a mess. Already over 240 lawsuits challenging the voting process have already been filed in the courts.

Behind the scenes there is optimism and pessimism in both teams.

Insiders in the Republican National Committee tell me that the party is on track to lose the Senate to the Democrats. Normally a senate race is closely aligned with the presidential race. Or so you would think!

This is not a normal election. Donald Trump is on track to win some States by large margins and then lose local representatives. Steve Bullock may win Montana for the Democrats and Senator Lindsay Graham may lose South Carolina for the Republicans, both states Donald Trump will win by 15 points.

Similarly Trump may win Arizona, Georgia and Colorado but lose key senators like Martha McSally, David Perdue and Cory Gardner.

And Democrat insiders are now despondent about lower than expected minority Black and Hispanic voter turnouts in key states like Florida and Pennsylvania. These are crucial demographics that have traditionally supported the blue team.

Trump's energy has also forced commentators and critics to take another look at the numbers. When 29,000 people turned up at an airport in Omaha, Nebraska for yet another pumped up Trump rally it spooked the nay sayers. The Republicans claim that up to 30 per cent of attendees have neither voted before or have voted Democrat. More importantly it's a stark visual comparison with Joe Biden's more coronavirus-friendly car rallies.

And the intensity will grow. This President is amping it up to four rallies in four cities each day.

It's an unprecedented schedule for a sitting president. The transportation and security logistics are extraordinary and hugely complicated. But Trump's energy is infectious both ways.

When a work colleague in New York told me that she had queued up with her daughter for five hours and 15 minutes to vote against Trump last week it simply confirmed the passion he generates.

Trump has created a level of enthusiasm amongst voters that is almost beyond comprehension. This election is on track for the highest voter turnout since 1968.

And his rallies are working. They are great entertainment but they are also honest, indulgent, humorous and frightening. Trump is like a cult leader to his supporters and Lucifer to his critics. His campaign cut-through line is that he is "not a politician". Maybe that's why the Republican politicians in the Senate are in trouble.

I won't call a possible election result unless there is no way a candidate can win.

Hillary Clinton couldn't win in 2016 because the FBI started investigating her just one week out from polling day. It gave credence to Trump's claim that she was "crooked".

Because of passion, policies and participation, Trump can still win.

His call to battle is working. As of today more people have voted in Texas before polling day than voted in the entire 2016 election. The numbers are mind-blowing. Across the nation, no one knows how many more people will vote on Tuesday. Normally bad weather has an impact on polling day but social distancing has complicated the equation.

At the same time, Trump has smashed voting stereotypes. For example, he is getting a larger than expected Black vote in Michigan. On the other hand, the anti-Trump vote is winning over more white suburban women for Biden.

And each state is now reporting demographic variations. My friends in Florida indicate that more Hispanics and young people are voting early for Trump than anyone expected. Miami is apparently wallpapered in Trump posters.

Alternatively in the safest Republican strongholds of Texas, friends report an avalanche of Biden signs. They say it's not worth the fight putting up Trump signs in their yards and being yelled at.

(continued)

#11302445 at 2020-10-27 08:11:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition

>>11302438

2/2

So now that swing voters and good policy have no role in the election, it comes down to turnout. Will the Trump loyalists get out there? Biden doesn't need to worry too much given that all the Trump haters are highly energised.

Early indications are that this election will see more Americans vote than at any other time. A total of 138 million Americans voted last time. This election it could top 150 million. As a percentage of the voting age population more Americans are likely to vote this year than at any time since 1968.

The losing candidate this year will probably receive more votes than any previous winner. That means the divisions across communities will be deeper unless the winner finds a way to heal the massive crevice running through the middle of this community.

Of course 1968 was the last significant period of domestic upheaval in American society - America was losing the Vietnam War and night after night, and for the first time, Americans saw graphic images of the horrors of such conflict. There was no escaping the bad news.

To make matters worse several cities were burned and looted nightly for months as protests unfolded following the assassinations of both Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. There was no let-up in the bad news.

The White House incumbent, president Lyndon B. Johnson, was seen as a divisive figure. He was a Democrat that split his party with landmark racial equality legislation. He was gruff and overbearing. He also had an insatiable appetite for news media.

By that election, exhausted Americans wanted change. Johnson stood down and chose not to run again before his party and the American people could throw him out of the White House. Trump is not a quitter. He is energised by the fight. And he needs the American people to join the battle.

A record 65 million votes are already cast - almost half the total cast in 2016 - and Americans are queuing for up to 10 hours to vote. Imagine that in Australia.

Indications are that the numbers on voter turnout are heavily favouring the Democrats. Of the 19 states that report registered party affiliations, about half all early voters are Democrats, 28 per cent Republicans and the rest independents. In crucial swing states like Florida numbers are closer. Moreover, voters may not vote in line with party affiliations.

I think Mary Milwaukee's mind is made up. She will vote for Biden. She wants Trump's policies but Biden's demeanour. Above all else she wants to calm things down. Biden is a benign alternative.

The remaining question is whether she will brave bad weather, a four-hour queue and a new coronavirus lockdown in Wisconsin to go to vote. If she doesn't vote, Trump still has a chance.

Joe Hockey is a former federal treasurer and ambassador to the US. He is president of advisory firm Bondi Partners.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/us-election-fairweather-friends-trump-needs-his-fans-to-vote/news-story/fcfac2c2e47160521b7031696abe3d7b

#11302438 at 2020-10-27 08:10:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition

Fairweather friends? Trump needs his fans to vote

With just over a week to go, everything the President says and does is about getting pro-Trump Americans to cast their ballots.

Joe Hockey - October 25, 2020

1/2

We are just over a week from voting and Donald Trump has given up trying to convince swing voters to back him.

Everything he says and does is about getting pro-Trump Americans to go out and vote. His remarkable three rallies a day and his attacks on the Biden family finances are all about firing up voter turnout in key states such as like Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Of course, this seems strange for many Australian politicians. Our election campaigns are a fight for the swinging voter. Our party base is usually locked in and, as we approach the last week before polling day, candidates are frantically searching for the undecided or soft voters that will determine the outcome.

In Australian elections policies also matter more than personalities. Think the 1993 and 1998 GST elections, the carbon and mining taxes in 2010 and 2013, or the "Mediscare" election of 2016. But policy debates rarely decide American elections.

If there was any doubt, it all ended during the final debate. The candidates took their predictable sides on the response to the coronavirus, Obamacare, race relations and candidate family finances. Trump partly lost the fight because the much-lauded debate controller, Kristen Welker, didn't raise the issues that Trump polls strongly on such as the economy, law and order or taxes. Welker talked over Trump 40 times. She interrupted Joe Biden on eight occasions.

It's a shame. Good policy will make America stronger. Personality politics is vanity politics.

Swing voters such as our fictional Mary Milwaukee, a working-class mother of two children, are discerning. They are listening to the candidate that can make their lives better. They want answers on job security, income security and law and order.

In case no one noticed, America is in recession. And there is not enough debate about how to end the economic malaise.

Some are trying. For example, the independent ratings agency Moody's says Biden's economic policies will deliver 7 million more jobs than Trump's plan. In contrast, the respected Hoover Institution says Biden's full agenda will punish the American economy and reduce its size by a massive 8 per cent. It might be lofty stuff but it affects Mary's household income.

In 2016 Mary Milwaukee voted for Trump's policies, and she didn't like Hillary Clinton. This time policy differences seem less important. Joe Biden has played a really clever game. He is widely respected and he is Teflon when it comes to criticism. Trump's political strength is his ability to negatively define his opponents. It is now too late for him to label Biden in the same way he branded Clinton as "crooked". He nailed others as "little" Marco Rubio, "low-energy" Jeb Bush and "Lyin'" Ted Cruz. His moniker of "sleepy" for Biden did not stick. His pivot to "crooked" is not working.

Don't forget that even after Trump's full-frontal attacks most Americans still wanted Clinton. She won thee million more votes. But they lived in the wrong places and Trump carried the electoral college with policies that appealed to the right people in the right states.

(continued)

#11148661 at 2020-10-19 07:52:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition

>>11148648

2/2

That's not stubborn, it's crazy. His defiance is more important to him than winning the middle ground. That's why for four years he has focused on feeding his base through rallies and social media. He would be in a much stronger position if he made more of his social justice successes, like his war on opioid addiction or his criminal justice reforms that went some way to addressing the horrible small-crime incarceration of thousands of African-Americans.

Don't believe him when he says he may leave if he loses. Trump will monetise the disruption he has started. He will continue to tweet, hold rallies and embrace as many of his supporters as possible.

It's widely expected that one way he will utilise his brand is by setting up a Trump media network. There were whispers of that in 2016. Some people said to me his run for president was only a bid to revive his brand post-The Apprentice. I never fully bought that.

But if TNN, or Trump News Network, comes to fruition, it would be competing directly with Fox News and would work in sync with smaller right-wing media outlets like Breitbart and the Daily Caller. It would likely cover cable television and talkback radio. And it will probably work because it will continue to advocate for Trump's policies. He will have 24-hour news and endorsements without the restrictions of the White House. It will also have daily cannon fodder from a new Biden administration.

In order to keep the political narrative fresh Trump will feed speculation that he will run for the presidency again in 2024. All this has the capacity to tear the Republican Party further apart. It would be the equivalent of the DLP split from the Labor Party in Australia in 1955 that kept the party out of office for nearly 20 years.

A new Axios analysis of elected Republicans in congress found more than 85 per cent of members and senators have largely stood by Trump over the past four years. If elected officials defied the President, they have either been defeated in ballots or resigned from elected office. This is very unusual in the US system. Somewhere, somehow, most elected officials like to qualify their support for the leader. Especially when the leader engages in some non-mainstream behaviour. But today's Republicans know Trump is going to hang around.

If Trump is badly defeated, it will not be business as usual in the Republican Party. The biggest challenge for moderate conservatives is that they have no leader. Paul Ryan has left and state governors such as Greg Abbott in Texas, Charlie Baker in Massachusetts or Larry Hogan in Maryland are happy blazing their own state trails. Some others, like Vice-President Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley will definitely be running for the 2024 nomination and will need to find ways to fill the vacuum.

In the meantime Trump is doing very little to win over the undecided voters. His rallies have energy but there is just no policy cut-through that will help him win swing voters.

I do believe there is a large group of shy Trump voters in the community. But there aren't enough to close the current gap with Biden. Moreover, the fact that more people watched Joe Biden in a virtual town hall at the same time as Trump was holding his town hall suggests that Trump fatigue is real despite his loyal base.

I still haven't written off Donald Trump. The current US news cycle is moving at 16x what it was in 2016. Trump certainly has the capacity to fill that monstrous demand for content. He has a mountain to climb and he won't be giving up.

Joe Hockey is a former federal treasurer and ambassador to the US. He is president of advisory firm Bondi Partners.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/us-election-2020-cult-of-trump-is-not-going-away/news-story/182064fa530bd75fead2f5c7c38f2023

#11148648 at 2020-10-19 07:50:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition

US election 2020: Cult of Trump is not going away

Joe Hockey - OCTOBER 18, 2020

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Donald Trump had a brief moment of reflection last week. "Could you imagine if I lose?" he told a large crowd in Georgia, "maybe I'll have to leave the country." His critics will be cheering but they won't be alone.

If he wins in two weeks we will all need to strap in for the wildest of rides. If he loses he will continue to be a massive influence on US politics. He will be the leader of a political cult movement that has tens of millions of members. He will still be a disruptive force on the centre right. Over time, even his current allies and colleagues will be encouraging him to make a move to Christmas Island.

No single figure in modern American history has had more unwavering support from such a large proportion of the country. Both Trump the candidate and Trump the President have managed to harness that energy behind the patriotic grab, "Make America Great". People have forgotten that it was used by many leaders including Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Only Trump has weaponised it successfully against fellow Americans who don't support his agenda. Trump owns the American flag, the anthem and patriotism. His rallies are all red, white and blue.

Even so, Trump has not won a single significant poll that would indicate he could win on November 3. Despite this, he can still rely on a hard vote of at least 35 per cent of the voting population.

They are believers in their man no matter what the critics throw at him. Why? Because Donald Trump has consistently advocated for those voters, even at the cost of ceding the middle ground to a centrist like Joe Biden. It's a political theory that's unusual and risky.

As part of that "protect the base" strategy, Trump has advocated policies like closing the borders, lower taxes, less red tape and the abandonment of international trade and climate agreements. In fact, many middle-ground voters support those policies. But when it comes to moral leadership Trump is headstrong and inflexible.

When new rounds of police brutality emerged this year, Trump had to be dragged kicking and screaming into a mild criticism of the "bad apples" working across the 16,000 law enforcement agencies in America.

When white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 to defend white nationalism and protect the statues of Confederate figures, Trump said there were "good people on all sides". Three people died and the President's remark was used as an endorsement of sorts by white supremacists. More recently he has refused to criticise other white supremacist group like Proud Boys ("Stand back and stand by") or the proponents of QAnon who are advocating a conspiracy theory that high-level Democrats like Biden, Hillary Clinton and the Obamas are running pedophile protection racquets.

(continued)

#11034793 at 2020-10-12 07:17:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition

>>11034788

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Joe Biden and Harris have left themselves open to an attack at the suggestion they will stack the US Supreme Court if they get control of the White House and the Senate. Americans don't like people fiddling with their institutions. If Trump lets this opportunity pass then it's game over.

Like a good prizefighter he has to ignore the pain of the punches that hit him and focus on landing punches on his opponent. And empathy helps.

Trump rarely shows empathy. It's not his natural instinct; he views it as a weakness. Last week Pence grieved for all those lost to coronavirus and it resonated.

Trump needs to prosecute the case that 97 per cent of Americans have not had coronavirus and of those that have, 97 per cent survived. He must grieve for the losses but get on with the battle. Like the wartime President Americans would expect, he has some good news to sell as well. The mortality rate is falling and vaccines are just around the corner.

And Trump must get back to the issues that helped in 2016 - job creation through "made in America", secure borders, freedom of religion and the right to own a gun, a stronger military and more affordable healthcare. When did Trump last talk about infrastructure?

On taxes he can throw a knockout punch. Biden has pledged to reverse the Trump corporate tax cuts. In Australian politics that would be a knockout punch for an opponent during a recession. Instead, Trump is still tweeting about Hillary Clinton.

During my seven election campaigns in Australia, the leader always had someone who could pull them into line. Good campaign teams led by fearless advisers were essential. At times I was in the room for those frank and honest character assessments. And, yes, I copped a few myself.

Trump has no one to tell him when he is wrong, having sacked the critics and ostracised the contrarians. Almost none of the 2016 team is there. And many mainstream Republicans who were "Never Trumpers" have morphed into movements like The Lincoln Project and Republican Voters Against Trump. These well-funded groups have done unprecedented damage to his re-election campaign. Their ads are sniper shots with horrifying accuracy. What's more, they got into Trump's head by running the ads in Washington DC on the TV networks he watches every morning. They are experienced Republican campaigners running against an inexperienced incumbent.

Sometimes leaders can get away with an inexperienced team and little message discipline. They have usually been through hell and high water themselves and are smart enough to build a kitchen cabinet of experienced, wise advisers. Trump hasn't held a formal cabinet meeting since May and trusts only his own judgment - and he craves regular reaffirmation like one of his predecessors, Richard Nixon.

Even the best fighter cannot win without a good support team in their corner. It's time for Trump to forget about the aesthetics, get back in the ring and start landing some heavy blows.

Joe Hockey is a former federal treasurer and ambassador to the US. He is president of advisory firm Bondi Partners.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/trump-needs-to-take-fight-up-to-biden-and-land-some-punches/news-story/89a45c3e4407b8cec308b2327f36ab22

#11034788 at 2020-10-12 07:15:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition

Trump needs to take fight up to Biden and land some punches

Joe Hockey - OCTOBER 11, 2020

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Donald Trump divides the world into winners and losers. At the moment he is losing.

A good friend told me of one meeting he had in the Oval Office with the President. They were discussing some US technology and the President didn't like the look of the equipment. He wanted better aesthetics.

My friend responded that it might not be pretty but the thing that mattered was the lethality of the punch: "Much like Mike Tyson, Mr President." Trump responded: "I watched Tyson lose two fights. Conversation over."

Trump is not only losing the national vote by an average 10 per cent; in the battleground states, he is 5 per cent behind Biden. The local polls are more revealing in the key states he won in 2016 like Wisconsin (5 per cent behind), Pennsylvania (7 per cent), Michigan (7 per cent), Florida (4 per cent), Arizona (3 per cent), North Carolina (1 per cent) and Ohio (1 per cent). Yet the Republicans have pulled advertising in some of these key states. They are running out of money.

The immediate question is whether Trump is capable of a knockout punch between now and the final bell, because on points he is tracking towards a thumping loss. The foundations for a comeback are still there. Most importantly, he is still full of fight. He has driven his many critics mad with his rapid recovery from the coronavirus. It's extraordinary. In just over one week he has gone from a hospital bed in Bethesda to a rally in Florida.

And Trump will not only claim this reaffirms his strength - "I feel better than I have in 20 years" - but will claim he knows how to defeat the virus. He declared he is going to get all Americans the miracle treatments he received.

Out of fear Trump is now speaking directly to seniors, where he has been bleeding support over the past few months. Late last week in a message from the Rose Garden, he specifically targeted Americans over 65 saying "to my favourite people in the world, the seniors. I am a senior, I know you don't know that, nobody knows that ... but I am a senior". He went on to pledge his unqualified support for their health and wellbeing.

Trump is now moving to a Sun Belt strategy of targeted campaigning in Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Texas and Arizona. This week is aimed at shoring up his weakening base. He will also have intermittent visits to Pennsylvania. He cannot afford to lose that state under any scenario.

Trump must stop talking about himself. He has to give Americans a reason to vote for him and being Donald Trump is not enough.

He must follow the lead of Mike Pence who won the debate with Kamala Harris. I knew Pence won when CNN and MSNBC commentators started criticising Harris for her performance.

The former Indiana governor is an experienced debater and he won focusing on what matters to swing voters like our Mary Milwaukee. He talked about jobs and the threat of the Green New Deal. He had Harris on the back foot on taxes, law and order, China and border protection. Harris landed a few good punches on mismanagement of the coronavirus - the Trump-Pence achilles heel - and it's having a big impact on Mary Milwaukee's parents, who have been solid Trump supporters but are having second thoughts.

(continued)

#10723081 at 2020-09-20 18:47:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition

>>10723064

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Apart from setting their own rules, almost every county and city also sets their own budget for the ballot.

If you want to deter voter turnout then simply make the queues longer by having fewer electoral staff and fewer voting places. Some counties may have invested in electronic voting while others require a written ballot paper, which is slow and costly.

On top of all this the states further influence the process by setting their own electoral boundaries for federal congressional districts every decade. The rules that govern boundaries in Australia are a dream.

Even though US boundary manipulation cannot be compared with the Queensland Bjelkemander of 1972, when Joh Bjelke-Petersen won office with 20 per cent of the primary vote, US maps often lack coherence or common sense. That is a substantial advantage for one party over another. While this does not directly impact the presidential race, it does have an impact on the resources allocated to a state campaign.

Whatever the process, the two campaigns will spend a conservative estimate of $3.7bn on their crusades - an average of $31 per voter compared with the usual non-Palmer election here, where parties would spend about $11 per voter. In addition to all that spending, outsiders known as SuperPacs (political action committees) will pour extreme amounts of money to back their candidates. Mike Bloomberg announced he will toss in a lazy $140m in Florida alone just to see the end of Donald Trump.

These mind-blowing numbers would usually matter but for the fact Trump defied gravity and beat Hillary Clinton with half her budget in 2016.

Whatever the confused process throws up, we are now on track for a crazy election night.

It's conceivable that Trump will look like he is the winner that night because Republicans are more likely to vote on the day. However, that's when most states will only start counting postal ballots. They are not only expected to heavily favour Joe Biden but because of COVID-19, half of all ballots will be absentee, the highest number recorded.

For example, in North Carolina, requests for mail-in ballots are 14 times higher. A final count will take days, perhaps weeks. Then the litigation will kick in and the spin, smear and allegations will dominate domestic and global media.

It will be ugly. And if there is no clear winner by noon on January 20, then the 1947 Presidential Succession Act kicks in and Pelosi, at 80 years of age, becomes president. If she can't make it then next in line is Senator Chuck Grassley aged 87. We are living in crazy times.

Joe Hockey is a former federal treasurer and ambassador to the US. He is president of advisory firm Bondi Partners

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/us-election-headed-for-chaos-and-courts-what-price-president-pelosi/news-story/fc34b7037200aa76f53242b303179df1

#10723064 at 2020-09-20 18:46:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition

US election headed for chaos and courts - what price President Pelosi?

Joe Hockey - SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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What are the odds of Nancy Pelosi being sworn in as president on the steps of the Capitol on January 20? Not as remote as you may think.

Last week voting for the next president started in seven US states - two weeks before the first presidential debate that will be watched by almost 100 million Americans.

It is the beginning of the most complicated national election in the world, one almost certain to have no final result on election day, November 3.

The already confusing voting system across the US is slower and more open to manipulation than ever. On top of the political bias involved in its logistics, foreign interference is inevitable particularly in the days after November 3 when social media will be inundated with accusations, innuendo and outright deceit designed to undermine the integrity of the result.

It will be hard to avoid controversy no matter who wins. You can bet your house that the losers in this race will not take defeat graciously.

Already, both major parties are allocating more money to lawyers for the pre and post-election legal battles than they are spending on the campaign in a number of states.

It is certainly conceivable that the famous legal battle over hanging chads that decided the 2000 Bush-Gore election in Florida will be superseded by new types of litigation in perhaps 12 states if the result is close.

All the problems start with the more than 10,000 election authorities that are responsible for the rules of the presidential ballot.

Every jurisdiction seems to have authority for setting the rules - except for the US government that is being elected. The US Senate even shot down limited federal powers, under the 1965 Voting Rights Act to protect minority communities, earlier this year. In a nutshell that means there are different rules on how, where and when you can vote.

Take the case of our everyday voter, Mary Milwaukee. If Mary lives in Reno, Nevada she'll receive a postal ballot paper in the next few weeks even if she never applied for it. Moreover, according to the US Postal Service, 223,000 ballot papers will go to the wrong homes in Nevada because people moved and forgot to change their address. No risk of ballot fraud here, right? And Nevada is a swing state.

If Mary lived in Jackson, Mississippi, she would have to register to vote no later than 29 days before poll day, and if she were born outside the US, would have to prove her naturalisation. After registering, she could apply for a postal ballot paper only if she had a good excuse. One justification for a postal ballot is if Mary contracted COVID-19. However, if she contracts it less than a week out from the election, unless she soldiers down to the ballot box on November 3, her vote won't count.

But let's say Mary does live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has not made up her mind until the eve of the election. Mary is allowed to cast a vote only at her local polling booth. She is unable to vote further down the road or across the country. And if Mary does get to vote after she finishes her working shift at Walmart, the queue to vote could be three hours long or worse. She had better rug up because the outside temperature is about 4C that time of year.

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#10641562 at 2020-09-14 08:18:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #9 - Welcome to the Digital Battlefield Edition

Politicians' families 'targeted by China spies'

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The families of Australian politicians have been the target of open-source surveillance by a Chinese company that claims to have done work on behalf of Beijing's intelligence agencies, cybersecurity experts claim.

The children or spouses of Scott Morrison, US Ambassador Arthur Sinodinos, his predecessor Joe Hockey and Parliament intelligence committee chairman Andrew Hastie have all been the subject of intelligence assessments, according to a database leak from a Chinese company.

The leaked database from Shenzhen Zhenhua Data indicates it has been conducting open source intelligence collection and forming assessments of people of note in targeted fields all around the world. In total, 2.4 million people and 650,000 organisations have been the target of the open-source surveillance activities, according to the leaked files, some of which have been seen by The Australian.

Those who have been tracked include prominent politicians - along with their partners and even children - academics, companies involved in defence contracts, military and defence organisations, think-tanks and even criminal networks including Mexican drug cartels.

More than 50,000 Americans and 35,000 Australians are included in the database, leaked by a whistleblower.

The most significant names in the Shenzhen Zhenhua database include US President Donald Trump, US Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her entire family including children Alexandra and Paul, along with Shinzo Abe, Vladimir Putin and his children.

There are also members of the British Royal Family and high-profile journalists, according to the database which was copied by a Chinese activist and leaked to an international group of cybersecurity analysts 18 months ago.

Members of the group include former Australian government cybersecurity contractor Robert Potter - based in Canberra - and Fulbright University academic Chris Balding.

Mr Balding, in an interview with Sky News Australia, said the group had gone to great lengths to verify the database, including having the data analysed by some intelligence agencies globally.

"We've done extensive background research to basically vet the individuals, the data where this comes from," he said.

"We feel very confident in saying that not only does the company claim to work with Chinese military, Chinese security and intelligence, but that we can actually track the individuals that have written this code, the individuals that own this company and who they are connected to, who sits on the board of directors.

"(And) yes, they do actually in fact either work for the PLA or the Ministry of State Security.

"This information is being used by the Chinese state to try and target influence operations or intelligence operations around the world."

Mr Potter added: "We put together a team of people, people like myself from defence backgrounds, former intelligence officers, current intelligence, current intelligence officers and we pulled our resources together."

(continued)

#9481930 at 2020-06-05 08:47:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #8 - WE ARE THE CURE Edition

Don't write America off, says Sinodinos

Australia's ambassador to the US, Arthur Sinodinos, says America is resilient and will bounce back from the present tumult.

Washington | Australians horrified by violent images out of the US should see them as democracy at work to effect change, Arthur Sinodinos, Canberra's top Washington envoy has urged.

In a wide-ranging interview, Mr Sinodinos said America was resilient and would bounce back from the present tumult, triggered by the police killing of black man George Floyd 10 days ago.

He also said he was confident the world's biggest economy would recover well from the COVID-19-induced collapse and that mounting calls for decoupling from China would create fresh opportunities for Australian companies and investors in the US.

Speaking as another dramatic day of protests and nationwide unrest unfolded across the US, the ambassador indicated he expected a turbulent five months in the lead-up to November 3, saying "presidential elections are always a wild ride - they're the greatest show on earth".

"I say to Australians that I understand why you would be concerned seeing those images - [but] it's not a full picture of how the country is going because clearly vast swaths of the country are not caught up in the same way," Mr Sinodinos told The Australian Financial Review on Thursday (AEST).

"That's not to take away from what is happening, particularly in some of the inner cities ... but to keep it in perspective."

America endured similar unrest in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which tested its institutions and democracy, Mr Sinodinos said, "and on every occasion the Americans have shown a great capacity to come through and demonstrate resilience".

His comment came as tens of thousands of protesters gathered in cities such as Los Angeles and Washington for a ninth straight night, and as President Donald Trump faced a withering condemnation of his handling of the crisis from James Mattis, his "angry and appalled" former defence secretary and widely respected retired military leader.

"Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people - does not even pretend to try," Mr Mattis wrote in the wake of Mr Trump's decision this week to order the violent removal by police and military of peaceful protesters outside his residence so he could stage a photo of himself holding a bible outside a church.

Mr Mattis, who resigned in disgust over what he regarded as America's abandonment of its allies in Syria in late 2018, has largely kept silent since. However, on Thursday Australian time, he described Mr Trump as a threat to the US Constitution.

"We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society," Mr Mattis said.

The extraordinary outburst was echoed by former President Barack Obama, again in a rare public intervention, who said the protests over the killing of George Floyd and ongoing coronavirus pandemic were the "kinds of epic changes ... in our country that are as profound as anything I have seen in my lifetime".

"I know enough about that history to say: 'There is something different here'," said Mr Obama, who compared America's 1960s protests with today's "far more representative cross section of America out on the streets, peacefully protesting. That didn't exist back in the 1960s, that kind of broad coalition."

Pressure valve in action

Mr Sinodinos, in his most extensive remarks since taking over as US ambassador from Joe Hockey in January, said he had been struck by how seriously Americans take their civil rights.

"This is a country where they value liberty and democracy, so in that sense the institutions are adapted for the fact that people will have their say, one way or the other," he said.

"And what is happening now is another of those pressure valves being relieved."

While it's too early to tell whether current events will catalyse lasting change for African Americans, "this is a society which is open and transparent and sometimes when you see democracy up close it's a bit like the old adage about the sausage machine: it doesn't look very nice," Mr Sinodinos said.

"But the fact of the matter is Americans are out there expressing themselves. They are sending a message. And the system, as it has always done here, and its democratic institutions are strong enough and adaptable enough and resilient enough to respond."

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https://www.afr.com/world/north-america/don-t-write-america-off-says-sinodinos-20200604-p54zdk

#9062506 at 2020-05-07 09:24:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #8 - WE ARE THE CURE Edition

#7 - Part 6
>>8322569 For at least the second time, POTUS tweets at @abc but "incorrectly" tags Australia's @abcnews instead
>>8330571 Joe Hockey's claims on Alexander Downer jeopardising Five Eyes 'not credible'
>>8330911 Attorney General Barr And International Partners Announce New Initiative In Protecting Children From Sexual Exploitation
>>8330911 Attorney General Barr Announces the Launch of Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
>>8338917 Victims of paedophile school gardener John Bodey take legal action against WA Education Department
>>8338949 Morrison government to stop funding international collaboration on shift to zero emissions
>>8339071 Julia Gillard: 'It's important to show that women can hold their own'
>>8339298 Australia in the US Tweet: Home Affairs @PeterDutton_MP joins @IvankaTrump, Attorney General Barr & our five eyes partners
>>8339335 U.S. Senators Cardin, Barrasso Lead Senate Recognition of US-Australian Firefighting Cooperation
>>8342712 Biden or Sanders? Voters in Docklands could play a key role in picking Trump's opponent

>>8342822 Australia reaches breakthrough deal to buy US emergency oil supplies
>>8343204 Australian police praised for helping capture US pedophile
>>8343204 Spanaway, Washington man sentenced to 15 years in prison for production and distribution of images of child molestation
>>8343407 Suspected foreign agents ordered to hand over documents as new unit targets China links
>>8343730 Mark, @awakeinaus Tweet: Why would [Tom Hanks] he continue to post like this? He has to 'hide' it in plain sight for people to see
>>8343730 Tom Hanks Tweet: Kids sock, washed ashore. Lost ashore. Bondi Beach. New South Wales. Hanx
>>8344301, >>8344348 The Hanks tweet on the main QR Thread last night, received a few Interdasting replies
>>8346125 "Koala Kai" - Cobra Kai commercial on Fox News and Q Post #3331 - Karate Kid Analogy
>>8351034 Charity World Vision in allegations of corruption and nepotism
>>8354981 Facebook sued by Australian information watchdog over Cambridge Analytica-linked data breach

>>8355066 Russia sensationally claims Australia tampered with MH17 wreckage after the plane was shot down
>>8355066 MH17 investigation: Russia's ambassador to Australia accuses AFP of cover-up
>>8355934 Call for investigation into Australian Prime Ministers and their family members since Keating
>>8357990 World Vision accused of corruption and nepotism
>>8360039 Video: Why We Sued Big Tech for Artificial Intelligence Misuse & Contribution to Win for Humanity
>>8365788 Huawei gives up on Australia in short term but wants probe of 5G competitors
>>8374887 Essential poll: Scott Morrison regains lead as preferred prime minister after bushfire backlash
>>8375024 Child sex abuse victim says Anglican Church fobbed her off, then offered payout in exchange for silence
>>8375168 Spygate Could Make Watergate Look Like A Third-Rate Burglary
>>8375245 PICACC celebrates first year; firm in its resolve to end online sexual exploitation of children

>>8378439 WA Bishop Christopher Saunders steps down over 'serious sex abuse allegations'
>>8386760 POTUS Oval Office Address: Anons identify gift from Scott Morrison to Donald Trump, statue of digger Leslie 'Bull' Allen
>>8386940 Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne Lays Keel For Future USS Canberra
>>8386940 Foreign Minister Marise Payne Tweet: We laid the keel today for USS Canberra, @Austal_USA's littoral combat ship
>>8386940 Video: Austal USA - USS Canberra (LCS 30) Keel Laying Ceremony
>>8386971 Apple cops Dutton's scorn over US meeting
>>8387076 Secretary of State Michael Pompeo Tweet: Good conversation with Foreign Minister @MarisePayneMP
>>8387076 US Department of State: Secretary Pompeo's Meeting with Australian Foreign Minister Payne
>>8398120 Westpac hit with third class action lawsuit over AUSTRAC scandal
>>8398280 Top Australian Army general to head military taskforce to manage coronavirus outbreak

#9062391 at 2020-05-07 08:41:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #7 - FIRE & FURY Edition

#7 - Part 6
>>8322569 For at least the second time, POTUS tweets at @abc but "incorrectly" tags Australia's @abcnews instead
>>8330571 Joe Hockey's claims on Alexander Downer jeopardising Five Eyes 'not credible'
>>8330911 Attorney General Barr And International Partners Announce New Initiative In Protecting Children From Sexual Exploitation
>>8330911 Attorney General Barr Announces the Launch of Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
>>8338917 Victims of paedophile school gardener John Bodey take legal action against WA Education Department
>>8338949 Morrison government to stop funding international collaboration on shift to zero emissions
>>8339071 Julia Gillard: 'It's important to show that women can hold their own'
>>8339298 Australia in the US Tweet: Home Affairs @PeterDutton_MP joins @IvankaTrump, Attorney General Barr & our five eyes partners
>>8339335 U.S. Senators Cardin, Barrasso Lead Senate Recognition of US-Australian Firefighting Cooperation
>>8342712 Biden or Sanders? Voters in Docklands could play a key role in picking Trump's opponent

>>8342822 Australia reaches breakthrough deal to buy US emergency oil supplies
>>8343204 Australian police praised for helping capture US pedophile
>>8343204 Spanaway, Washington man sentenced to 15 years in prison for production and distribution of images of child molestation
>>8343407 Suspected foreign agents ordered to hand over documents as new unit targets China links
>>8343730 Mark, @awakeinaus Tweet: Why would [Tom Hanks] he continue to post like this? He has to 'hide' it in plain sight for people to see
>>8343730 Tom Hanks Tweet: Kids sock, washed ashore. Lost ashore. Bondi Beach. New South Wales. Hanx
>>8344301, >>8344348 The Hanks tweet on the main QR Thread last night, received a few Interdasting replies
>>8346125 "Koala Kai" - Cobra Kai commercial on Fox News and Q Post #3331 - Karate Kid Analogy
>>8351034 Charity World Vision in allegations of corruption and nepotism
>>8354981 Facebook sued by Australian information watchdog over Cambridge Analytica-linked data breach

>>8355066 Russia sensationally claims Australia tampered with MH17 wreckage after the plane was shot down
>>8355066 MH17 investigation: Russia's ambassador to Australia accuses AFP of cover-up
>>8355934 Call for investigation into Australian Prime Ministers and their family members since Keating
>>8357990 World Vision accused of corruption and nepotism
>>8360039 Video: Why We Sued Big Tech for Artificial Intelligence Misuse & Contribution to Win for Humanity
>>8365788 Huawei gives up on Australia in short term but wants probe of 5G competitors
>>8374887 Essential poll: Scott Morrison regains lead as preferred prime minister after bushfire backlash
>>8375024 Child sex abuse victim says Anglican Church fobbed her off, then offered payout in exchange for silence
>>8375168 Spygate Could Make Watergate Look Like A Third-Rate Burglary
>>8375245 PICACC celebrates first year; firm in its resolve to end online sexual exploitation of children

>>8378439 WA Bishop Christopher Saunders steps down over 'serious sex abuse allegations'
>>8386760 POTUS Oval Office Address: Anons identify gift from Scott Morrison to Donald Trump, statue of digger Leslie 'Bull' Allen
>>8386940 Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne Lays Keel For Future USS Canberra
>>8386940 Foreign Minister Marise Payne Tweet: We laid the keel today for USS Canberra, @Austal_USA's littoral combat ship
>>8386940 Video: Austal USA - USS Canberra (LCS 30) Keel Laying Ceremony
>>8386971 Apple cops Dutton's scorn over US meeting
>>8387076 Secretary of State Michael Pompeo Tweet: Good conversation with Foreign Minister @MarisePayneMP
>>8387076 US Department of State: Secretary Pompeo's Meeting with Australian Foreign Minister Payne
>>8398120 Westpac hit with third class action lawsuit over AUSTRAC scandal
>>8398280 Top Australian Army general to head military taskforce to manage coronavirus outbreak

#8860486 at 2020-04-20 09:57:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #7 - FIRE & FURY Edition

Pandemic gives Arthur Sinodinos 'baptism of fire' as US ambassador

Washington: When Arthur Sinodinos began his posting as Australia's ambassador to the United States at the start of February, Australians were still consumed by the bushfires that had ravaged the country throughout summer.

His first official duty as ambassador was to visit Dulles Airport in Virginia to meet a widow who had returned with the coffin of one of the three American firefighters who had died fighting the blazes.

"Our focus then was how to get tourism back and to tell Americans that Australia was open for business again," Sinodinos said.

A month later, the coronavirus was sweeping rapidly across the US. Washington, like other major cities, went into lockdown. Instead of trying to attract international visitors, Australia was shutting down its borders.

"It has been a bit of a baptism of fire," Sinodinos said of his arrival in the US capital after eight years as a Liberal senator and a long stint as John Howard's chief of staff.

He replaced former treasurer Joe Hockey in what is regarded as Australia's most prestigious and important diplomatic posting.

"The pandemic has thrown up a whole series of issues that were very different than the ones I had in my head," he told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

"It's been an all hands to the pump situation."

Instead of navigating big picture geopolitics, he has been focused on the nitty gritty of consular support.

"When I was preparing to take on the job, I was thinking about how to promote trade and economic links, how Australia fits into the US-China debate," he said.

"Then the virus erupts and we're thrown into the deep end of helping Australians who want to get home, giving advice to people who are staying in the US, dealing with Australians who are caught on cruise ships and can't get off."

The most tense issue, Sinodinos said, was helping Australians to get off stranded cruise ships where the virus had broken out.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis initially refused to let the Zaandam and Rotterdam cruise liners dock in his state, leaving 133 Australians stuck on board. Four elderly passengers on the ships had died, including two from COVID-19.

"We were on tenterhooks there for a while about getting those people off safely," Sinodinos said.

DeSantis eventually agreed to let the ships dock, allowing the Australian passengers to return home on special flights from San Francisco.

The early days of Sinodinos' tenure would usually have been packed with meetings, lunches and functions with Washington's power players. Relationships, after all, are the oil in the diplomatic machine.

Instead, the pandemic forced him to hunker down in his residence. Phone calls and video-conferencing sessions have had to suffice as a way to build connections with the Trump administration.

Last week, Sinodinos spoke on the phone to introduce himself to the US President's new chief of staff, Mark Meadows. "It's not the same as striking up a relationship directly but we're getting there," he said.

Having overcome non-Hodgkin's lymphoma last year, the 63-year-old knows it is especially important for him to practise physical distancing.

"Because I'd had chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, my immunity has been affected," Sinodinos said. "It does weigh on your mind."

When the outbreak is under control and normal life resumes, Sinodinos is looking forward to travelling outside the Washington beltway, including to manufacturing hubs in the US Midwest.

"One of the pieces I got before coming here was to see the rest of the country and understand the political dynamics across the country. When the opportunity arises again, I'm very keen to do that."

When it comes to international relations, Sinodinos does not expect a widespread return to isolationism and protectionism in a post-pandemic world as some have predicted.

"When we emerge from this, we have to become careful not to become generals fighting the last war," he said.

"There will probably be more emphasis on domestic manufacturing of medical supplies, for example, but I don't think this will lead to a new era of autarky, or self-sufficiency.

"Reports of the death of globalisation are very premature."

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/north-america/pandemic-gives-arthur-sinodinos-baptism-of-fire-as-us-ambassador-20200418-p54kz9.html

#8569045 at 2020-03-26 06:45:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #7 - FIRE & FURY Edition

Officials ready to help Aussies in US

Australian embassy and consulate staff are taking a "no one left behind" approach to helping Australians holed up in North America amid the coronavirus pandemic, Australia's new ambassador to the US Arthur Sinodinos says.

New York, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana and other states popular with Australians are under stay-at-home orders in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus.

Mr Sinodinos said Australian embassy and consulate staff throughout the US and Canada are geared up to help Australians concerned and anxious about the situation.

"Our philosophy is no one left behind," Mr Sinodinos, who officially took over the crucial ambassadorship from Joe Hockey last month, said in a video posted on the Washington DC embassy's Twitter site.

"If you're in any doubt, please ask people at the embassy or any of the consulates for assistance."

The US has more than 64,000 cases across its 50 states, with at least 898 deaths including 285 in New York.

The Australian embassy's Facebook and Twitter sites, along with the Smarttraveller site, offers information including airport options for Australians who want to fly back to Australia.

"I never thought when I was taking up this post, we'd be facing the coronavirus crisis that we're facing today and like a lot of you I am anxious about it," Mr Sinodinos, a former federal Industry, Innovation and Science Minister, said.

"I'm concerned not only for myself, but for my family and the people I work with.

"So I understand that you're concerned and anxious, particularly when you're a long way from home, but our embassy, our consulates throughout North America are geared up to help."

https://www.centralwesterndaily.com.au/story/6697984/officials-ready-to-help-aussies-in-us/

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Australia in the US Tweet

A message from Ambassador @A_Sinodinos (Australians) in (the United States).
Wherever you are our Embassy & Consulate-Generals here in the USA are here to support you. Please continue to follow the direction of local authorities & regularly monitor:
https://smartraveller.gov.au
https://usa.embassy.gov.au/covid19

https://twitter.com/AusintheUS/status/1242924794447831042

#8330571 at 2020-03-06 05:41:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #7 - FIRE & FURY Edition

Joe Hockey's claims on Alexander Downer jeopardising Five Eyes 'not credible'

The nation's top diplomat says Joe Hockey's claim that Alexander Downer jeopardised the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance by reporting Trump campaign links with Russia is "not credible".

After his retirement as Australia's ambassador to the US, Mr Hockey criticised Mr Downer - a former UK high commissioner - for his diplomatic cable that led to the Muller probe into the Trump campaign. "Australia was under pressure on Five Eyes because of the whole Downer issue," Mr Hockey told Nine newspapers.

"The FBI and CIA were under profound attack, and the Downer issue could have gone really badly for us."

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary Frances Adam­son told a Senate estimates hearing that the comments were "just so far from the truth it was my assumption he had not made those remarks - It was not credible at all", she said.

In a now-famous 2016 encounter, Trump aide George Papadopoulos told Mr Downer in a London bar that Russia had damaging material on Donald Trump's presidential rival, Hillary Clinton.

He later relayed the information to Canberra via a diplomatic cable, and also told the charge d'affaires of the US ­embassy in London.

Ms Adamson also expressed concern about comments made by current high commissioner to the UK, George Brandis, who enthusiastically endorsed Boris Johnson's elevation as Prime Minister late in 2019. Mr Brandis told a British think tank the leadership change was a case of "cometh the hour, ­cometh the man", adding there was a ­"spirit of optimism that just drips from him".

Ms Adamson said there was often a "particular warmth" between politically appointed diplomats and their counterparts in the countries where they served, but DFAT took its apolitical position seriously, and expected its diplomats to behave professionally at all times.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/Joe-Hockeys-claims-on-alexander-downer-jeopardising-five-eyes-not-credible/news-story/8841210d3b884e9be59ab53ff86b08cf

#8099730 at 2020-02-11 06:49:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #7 - FIRE & FURY Edition

Downer revelations could have put Five Eyes alliance at risk: Hockey

The revelation that a tip-off from Alexander Downer triggered the FBI probe into Russian meddling in the Trump campaign put the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing arrangement at risk, Joe Hockey has revealed.

The recently departed US ambassador stressed the importance of American intelligence to Canberra, warning the FBI and CIA were under "profound attack" over the former Australian foreign minister's tip-off to US authorities and "it could have gone really badly for us".

A move to downgrade the information-sharing arrangement would have been a significant blow to Australia, with US intelligence instrumental in stopping nine out of the past 13 foiled terror plots in the country.

The explosive revelations come amid uncertainty over what Britain's decision to allow Huawei into its 5G network means for the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing arrangement.

As Australia's ambassador to the US, Mr Hockey was key in calming tensions within the Trump administration when Mr Downer's unwitting role in sparking the FBI probe came to light in late 2017.

Mr Hockey, who was known to be close to US President Donald Trump, said the importance of the Five Eyes partnership could not be understated.

"I can't tell you how important the Five Eyes partnership is for us. US intelligence has been instrumental in thwarting nine of the 13 disrupted terrorist attacks in Australia," he said.

"Our role in Five Eyes is more valuable than ever because of the increasing importance of the Indo-Pacific. We are not under threat in Five Eyes, but we could have been."

Asked how Australia's role in the intelligence sharing alliance could have been under threat in the past, Mr Hockey said: "Australia was under pressure on Five Eyes because of the whole Downer issue."

"The FBI and CIA were under profound attack and the Downer issue could have gone really badly for us… I don't want to say anything more about that."

Mr Downer famously met with Trump campaign staffer George Papadopoulos at a London wine bar in 2016, where he was told the Russians had a dirt file on rival candidate Hillary Clinton in the form of hacked Democratic Party emails. He later relayed the information to Canberra via a diplomatic cable and then to the Chargé d'Affaires of the US embassy in London.

In a break with diplomatic protocol, Australia allowed the FBI to conduct a highly sensitive interview with the then-UK High Commissioner in London just hours after the probe opened in August, 2016, just as the US election was heating up.

Mr Trump was said to be infuriated by the Downer revelations, asking his Attorney-General William Barr to investigate how the Russia probe started and telling reporters "I hope he looks at Australia".

A report by US Inspector General Michael Horowitz later concluded that Downer's intervention was pivotal in the FBI's decision to launch "Operation Crossfire Hurricane", but did not include any criticism of his or the Australian government's actions.

John Blaxland, professor of international security and intelligence studies at the Australian National University, said revelations that US intelligence had been so integral to thwarting terror plots in Australia underscored the importance of the information sharing arrangement between the two countries.

"The current dynamics have undoubtedly generated unease and concern, and a desire to double down on ensuring the United States recognises what they're doing for us," he said.

"Most people don't appreciate the depth, breadth and intimacy of those ties - how much it is an arrangement of mutual benefit."

Australia, the US, Britain, Canada and New Zealand are members of the "Five Eyes" alliance that shares highly sensitive intelligence with each other.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/federal/downer-revelations-could-have-put-five-eyes-alliance-at-risk-Hockey-20200210-p53zgn.html

#8057610 at 2020-02-07 05:12:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #7 - FIRE & FURY Edition

First stop White House as Australia's new ambassador to US Arthur Sinodinos meets Trump

Australia's new Ambassador to the United States Arthur Sinodinos says he is 'humbled' to represent his country in overseeing the relationship with its most important ally.

Mr Sinodinos, who arrived in the US this week, met with Donald Trump at the White House on Friday to present his credentials.

"It was an honour to present my credentials this morning, with my wife Elizabeth, as Australia's Ambassador to the United States to President Trump," the former Senator said.

"I could not be more proud or humbled to represent Australia as custodian of our most important bilateral relationship."

Mr Sinodinos replaces former Ambassador Joe Hockey at a time when relations between the two countries are strong with no major bilateral disputes.

After initially clashing with then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over the refugee deal in early 2017, Mr Trump has since adopted a positive view of the relationship with Australia.

In 2018 he exempted Australia from his new steel and aluminium tariffs and last year he threw a rare state dinner in Washington to honour Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Mr Sinodinos first came to public attention during his highly successful stint as chief of staff to the then prime minister John Howard from 1997 to 2006.

After several years in the business world, he was elected as a liberal Senator from 2011 to 2019 serving for awhile as a Cabinet minister in the Turnbull government.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/first-stop-white-house-as-australias-new-ambassador-to-us-arthur-sinodinos-meets-trump/news-story/54c77fe2ecb52080f19663c06b372251

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Arthur Sinodinos Tweet

Honoured to present my credentials as [Australian] Ambassador to the [United States] to President Trump with my wife Elizabeth.

I could not be more proud or humbled to represent Australia as custodian of our most important bilateral relationship

White House [photo]: Joyce N. Boghosian

https://twitter.com/A_Sinodinos/status/1225604800408104960

#7994514 at 2020-02-01 22:35:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #7 - FIRE & FURY Edition

#6 - Part 10
>>7760148 Scott Morrison confirms Australian troops will remain in Iraq after Iran's missile attack on US bases
>>7762786 Panel finds accused sex abuser Leifer fit to stand trial, feigned mental illness
>>7770285 Australia echoes western leaders in alleging Iran accidentally downed Ukraine plane
>>7770479 Australian Prudential Regulation Authority teams up with spy agencies
>>7770551 Singapore student charged over child-like sex doll
>>7788532 George Pell reportedly moved after drone flown over jail
>>7789587 Twitter Thread by Mark, @awakeinaus: Bruce Wolpe email to John Podesta - Abbott climate denialism is over
>>7798778 Virginia Roberts Giuffre backs DHS campaign against human trafficking
>>7799070 Don't hide hacks: cyber security boss Rachel Noble, director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate
>>7799563 Liberal National Club president dies after protesting at Brisbane library

>>7799930 2 21-year-old models fall to their deaths on same day, different countries (Sydney and Moscow)
>>7808293 State prosecutors demand court set date for Leifer extradition hearing
>>7808319 Twitter Threads by Dassi Erlich: Psychiatric report is to be presented to Judge Lomp tomorrow. What can we expect next?
>>7808430 Man, 29, arrested as Britain's worst paedophile Richard Huckle stabbed to death in cell
>>7811804 Malka Leifer, former Melbourne principal and accused child abuser, granted further delays in extradition process
>>7811804 Dassi Erlich Tweet: Over an hour long repetitive hearing of defence screaming & attempting to delay the process again
>>7812340 'It would be an issue': Malcolm Turnbull intervenes in UK's Huawei debate
>>7812514 Joe Hockey's farewell draws elite of US industry and politics
>>7812821, >>7812974 White House is Democrats' to lose, says anti-Trump Republican
>>7816058 Rockets reported fired at Taji military base in Iraq that hosts US-led coalition troops

>>7816058 Defence Minister Linda Reynolds Tweet: All Australian personnel have been accounted for & are safe
>>7827691 Huawei hits back at Malcolm Turnbull's 'factually incorrect information'
>>7827691 Turnbull still getting it wrong on 5G ban: Jeremy Mitchell, Director of Corporate & Public Affairs, Huawei Australia
>>7827852 Panel to call for more lay control in Australian church
>>7827870 'I'm deeply disturbed': Queensland Transport Minister Mark Bailey condemns Archbishop's claims
>>7827870 Mark Bailey Tweet: Deeply disturbed the Brisbane Archbishop opposes laws requiring priests report child sexual abuse
>>7827962 'This is an ugly work' - Trump's giant empty head sculpture descends on Ballarat
>>7828116 UK cops block bid to trace Prince Andrew's location on night he's accused of sex with teen
>>7828116 Virginia Roberts Giuffre Tweet: There could only be one reason the bodyguards would not to expose where the prince had been
>>7828116 Virginia Roberts Giuffre Tweet: You saw me at your parties, you saw me in Epstein's homes, you saw me on the plane…

>>7836768 Westpac linked to international paedophilia case after Australian man charged
>>7836807 Man detained over 'high level exploitation' of foreign workers
>>7836897 Search for next Australian Cyber Security Centre chief begins as outgoing head Rachel Noble prepares to leave
>>7837080 Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Giuffre appear in court to hash out plan to unseal documents
>>7837080 Virginia Roberts Giuffre Tweet: Sigrid McCawley is a warrior badass!! Watch her standup for the countless victims of Epstein & Maxwell
>>7837465 Government used sporting grants as slush fund for re-election campaign
>>7838666 White House chief of staff confirms Trump's desire to visit Australia
>>7843308 Catholic priest 'confessed 1,500 times to abusing children', victim says mandatory reporting could have saved him
>>7848771 FBI Interview Notes With Carter Page and George Papadopoulos Are Released
>>7859575 Australian police using face recognition software as privacy experts issue warning

#7994260 at 2020-02-01 22:08:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #6 - YEAR OF THE BOOMERANG Edition

#6 - Part 10
>>7760148 Scott Morrison confirms Australian troops will remain in Iraq after Iran's missile attack on US bases
>>7762786 Panel finds accused sex abuser Leifer fit to stand trial, feigned mental illness
>>7770285 Australia echoes western leaders in alleging Iran accidentally downed Ukraine plane
>>7770479 Australian Prudential Regulation Authority teams up with spy agencies
>>7770551 Singapore student charged over child-like sex doll
>>7788532 George Pell reportedly moved after drone flown over jail
>>7789587 Twitter Thread by Mark, @awakeinaus: Bruce Wolpe email to John Podesta - Abbott climate denialism is over
>>7798778 Virginia Roberts Giuffre backs DHS campaign against human trafficking
>>7799070 Don't hide hacks: cyber security boss Rachel Noble, director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate
>>7799563 Liberal National Club president dies after protesting at Brisbane library

>>7799930 2 21-year-old models fall to their deaths on same day, different countries (Sydney and Moscow)
>>7808293 State prosecutors demand court set date for Leifer extradition hearing
>>7808319 Twitter Threads by Dassi Erlich: Psychiatric report is to be presented to Judge Lomp tomorrow. What can we expect next?
>>7808430 Man, 29, arrested as Britain's worst paedophile Richard Huckle stabbed to death in cell
>>7811804 Malka Leifer, former Melbourne principal and accused child abuser, granted further delays in extradition process
>>7811804 Dassi Erlich Tweet: Over an hour long repetitive hearing of defence screaming & attempting to delay the process again
>>7812340 'It would be an issue': Malcolm Turnbull intervenes in UK's Huawei debate
>>7812514 Joe Hockey's farewell draws elite of US industry and politics
>>7812821, >>7812974 White House is Democrats' to lose, says anti-Trump Republican
>>7816058 Rockets reported fired at Taji military base in Iraq that hosts US-led coalition troops

>>7816058 Defence Minister Linda Reynolds Tweet: All Australian personnel have been accounted for & are safe
>>7827691 Huawei hits back at Malcolm Turnbull's 'factually incorrect information'
>>7827691 Turnbull still getting it wrong on 5G ban: Jeremy Mitchell, Director of Corporate & Public Affairs, Huawei Australia
>>7827852 Panel to call for more lay control in Australian church
>>7827870 'I'm deeply disturbed': Queensland Transport Minister Mark Bailey condemns Archbishop's claims
>>7827870 Mark Bailey Tweet: Deeply disturbed the Brisbane Archbishop opposes laws requiring priests report child sexual abuse
>>7827962 'This is an ugly work' - Trump's giant empty head sculpture descends on Ballarat
>>7828116 UK cops block bid to trace Prince Andrew's location on night he's accused of sex with teen
>>7828116 Virginia Roberts Giuffre Tweet: There could only be one reason the bodyguards would not to expose where the prince had been
>>7828116 Virginia Roberts Giuffre Tweet: You saw me at your parties, you saw me in Epstein's homes, you saw me on the plane…

>>7836768 Westpac linked to international paedophilia case after Australian man charged
>>7836807 Man detained over 'high level exploitation' of foreign workers
>>7836897 Search for next Australian Cyber Security Centre chief begins as outgoing head Rachel Noble prepares to leave
>>7837080 Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Giuffre appear in court to hash out plan to unseal documents
>>7837080 Virginia Roberts Giuffre Tweet: Sigrid McCawley is a warrior badass!! Watch her standup for the countless victims of Epstein & Maxwell
>>7837465 Government used sporting grants as slush fund for re-election campaign
>>7838666 White House chief of staff confirms Trump's desire to visit Australia
>>7843308 Catholic priest 'confessed 1,500 times to abusing children', victim says mandatory reporting could have saved him
>>7848771 FBI Interview Notes With Carter Page and George Papadopoulos Are Released
>>7859575 Australian police using face recognition software as privacy experts issue warning

#7836735 at 2020-01-17 06:50:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #6 - YEAR OF THE BOOMERANG Edition

How Joe Hockey remade himself into Australia's Trump-whisperer

Washington: When Donald Trump sat down with Joe Hockey for a meeting in the Oval Office this week, the US President had plenty to think about. The Senate was preparing to launch its impeachment trial and the US was about to sign a breakthrough trade deal with China.

Yet Trump had koalas on the brain.

"He was asking a lot of questions about the bushfires," says Hockey, who finishes his four-year term as Australia's US ambassador this month.

"We talked about the koalas on Kangaroo Island and the fact they are one of the only populations remaining that are Chlamydia-free.

"He said, 'Oh that's terrible! Is there anything else we can do to help?'

"That is the level of detail we're getting down to," Hockey says, laughing in disbelief at one of the many surreal moments he has experienced during his time as Australia's representative in Washington.

The encounter, Hockey says, illustrates something he believes many Australians don't appreciate about Trump: his inquisitiveness.

"Donald Trump has a very curious mind, he likes to understand things," Hockey tells The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in an extended interview at White Oaks, the US ambassador's official residence.

"He will ask you a lot of questions and store the information away. That would surprise people because that's not always how he comes across."

The fact Trump met Hockey privately to bid him farewell reflects the unusually high level of access the ambassador has enjoyed during his tenure.

Many foreign leaders struggle to obtain one-on-one meetings with the US President, let alone ambassadors from mid-sized countries.

"It is a privilege that is only reserved for the folks that we hold in the highest regard," Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, tells The Herald and The Age.

…..

When Hockey and his family landed in Washington in January 2016, presidential campaigning was already in full swing.

It was at a Republican primary debate in March that Hockey first met Trump, who was then a renegade political novice blasting his way to the Republican nomination.

Watching Trump up close convinced Hockey that he had a strong chance of winning the presidency.

"Donald Trump defines and destroys his opponents better than almost anyone else I've ever seen.

Yet when Trump won the election it triggered "root and branch shock in Canberra".

"I had suggested to Malcolm Turnbull during a visit to Australia that Donald Trump could win and he was almost disbelieving," Hockey says.

"As the result was coming in on election night he was speaking to me and was aghast like the rest of the world."

In the scramble to obtain Trump's phone number in the days following the election, Hockey famously asked a favour of Trump's friend Greg Norman. The golf legend promptly passed it along, allowing Turnbull and Trump to make an early connection.

"The diplomatic rule book was thrown on the funeral pyre the day of the 2016 election," Hockey says. "We were in a whole new world."

Together Hockey and Turnbull decided to approach Trump as they would a famous late Australian media mogul.

"Donald Trump reminds me a lot of Kerry Packer and it was the same for Malcolm Turnbull [who served as a Packer's longtime lawyer and confidante at Channel Nine].

"We talked a lot about that and it helped us work out our strategy for interacting with the President.

"He is verbal, visual, he's not a technocrat, there is a lot of gut instinct there. And Kerry Packer respected you more if you were honest and frank without being sycophantic. It's the same with Trump."

Hockey says one of the mistakes other countries have made is to believe you have to suck up to Trump to get results. It's better to state your disagreements strongly but to make sure you keep them private.

Indeed, in a famous call with Trump, Turnbull was anything but sycophantic.

He forcefully requested that Trump honour an Obama-era deal to resettle refugees from Manus Island and Nauru in the US - even though the President had won office on a tough-on-borders platform. Trump, after much complaining, eventually agreed.

(continued)

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/north-america/how-Joe-Hockey-remade-himself-into-australia-s-trump-whisperer-20200117-p53s8h.html

#7812514 at 2020-01-14 20:05:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #6 - YEAR OF THE BOOMERANG Edition

Joe Hockey's farewell draws elite of US industry and politics

Joe Hockey is not leaving Washington quietly.

A stunning who's who of American political and business leaders will pay tribute to Australia's outgoing ambassador at a gala farewell party on Saturday.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have accepted invitations to join some 400 American and Australian powerbrokers who plan to attend the big Washington bash.

Donald Trump's acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, is among those who will speak and a long list of Trump cabinet ministers and advisers from Steven Mnuchin to Stephen Miller are also expected to attend as well as leading American CEOs.

On the Australian side, former prime minister Tony Abbott and golfer Greg Norman will speak, while other attendees will include billionaire businessman Anthony Pratt and News Corp co-chairman Lachlan Murdoch and his wife Sarah.

Donald Trump was also invited but couldn't attend so instead he has invited Mr Hockey, a semi-regular golf partner of the President, into the Oval Office for a personal farewell on Wednesday (AEDT).

The attendance of so many powerbrokers reflects the close ties that Mr Hockey has forged, especially with the Trump White House, but also more broadly in the US during his four-year term as ambassador.

Mr Hockey's stint in the country's most important diplomatic post has been widely praised for helping Australia maintain a close relationship with Mr Trump and his key advisers - something that many other US allies have failed to do.

Under Mr Hockey's watch the US-Australia alliance survived several potential storms including the angry phone call between Mr Trump and then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull over the refugee deal in early 2017.

In 2018, Australia was one of the only countries exempted from Mr Trump's steel and aluminium tariffs while Mr Hockey also played an important role last year in defusing potential diplomatic tensions over Alexander Downer's role in triggering the FBI's Russia investigation.

Asked what his proudest achievement was in Washington, Mr Hockey said "navigating this uncertain world with twists and turns everywhere".

"The greatest legacy I can leave is the thought that you can't take the US alliance for granted," he told The Australian.

"You just need to keep working really hard at it more than ever."

Mr Hockey says that in an era where the US is more transactional with its alliances, Australia needs to keep closely and constantly engaged to ensure it protects its own interests.

"In this world there is no regard for traditional allies, there is no regard for traditional partnerships, there is no regard for any great historical alliance," he says. "Decision-making comes down to country-specific relationships in a way we've never seen before and that means you can be defined as a close ally but then end up on the wrong end of a trade announcement or something else and it is the relationships that hold it together."

Mr Hockey has got to know Mr Trump better than most ambassadors in Washington, having played golf with him and having also developed a close relationship with the President's acting chief of staff, Mr Mulvaney.

Last year, Mr Trump granted Scott Morrison the first state dinner for an Australian leader since John Howard's in 2006.

So after four years, what are Mr Hockey's observations about this mercurial and unconventional President?

"He is an engaging and curious person," he says. "You never think of it when you see him on television or social media but he actually asks a lot of questions. He is curious and he is incredibly street smart. He is canny and he is intelligent.

"I think he likes provoking people and he is 'America first', which rubs a lot of countries up the wrong way. But we would expect our Prime Minister to be 'Australia first' so you can't deny America's right after all these years to put their country first," he says.

Mr Hockey's term finishes at the end of next week and he will be replaced by former senator Arthur Sinodinos. But Mr Hockey will remain in Washington for much of this year, doing part-time lecturing on public policy at the American University while he works out his next move, which is likely to be a corporate role in the US.

Mr Hockey has said that despite serving 20 years in federal parliament, including four jobs as a minister and now a four-year term as ambassador in Washington, he wants to keep working.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/Joe-Hockeys-farewell-draws-elite-of-us-industry-and-politics/news-story/af6c226d085eb4f74a355be150279488

https://twitter.com/7NewsSydney/status/1216275526530191360

#7461939 at 2019-12-09 07:14:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #6 - YEAR OF THE BOOMERANG Edition

Australia may figure in new Trump-Russia report

Australia's role in what US President Donald Trump has dubbed "The Russia Hoax" could be further revealed when a long-awaited watchdog report is released.

US Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz will release a report on Monday (Tuesday AEDT) examining the FBI's handling of the 2016 investigation into the Trump election campaign and potential links to Russia.

It was a May, 2016, bar meeting in London between then Australian high commissioner to the UK, Alexander Downer, and former Trump campaign foreign relations adviser, George Papadopoulos, that sparked the FBI investigation.

Mr Trump has claimed FBI officials were biased and working against him ahead of his November, 2016, election victory over Hillary Clinton.

The president predicted last month Mr Horowitz's report would unearth "perhaps the biggest scandal in the history of our country", but leaks to The Washington Post and other publications in recent days point to the opposite.

The watchdog found political bias did not influence the federal investigation, according to the reports.

Mr Horowitz also reportedly concluded the FBI had enough evidence to justify a foreign intelligence warrant to conduct surveillance of another former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page.

Mr Trump and supporters are expected to latch on to Mr Horowitz's findings that some FBI agents and lawyers involved in the probe acted in careless and unprofessional ways.

Mr Papadopoulous has alleged the FBI was part of an anti-Trump international espionage conspiracy involving the Australian intelligence, CIA, MI6,Turkish operatives, Mr Downer and a colourful bunch of characters including mysterious Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud.

Mr Trump has called for Australia's role to be investigated and key Republicans have supported Mr Papadopolous' claims.

The Australian government, Mr Downer, former director of US national intelligence James Clapper and other figures have rejected the claims.

Mr Downer said Mr Papadopoulos told him at the London bar meeting Russia had damaging material on Ms Clinton.

Mr Papadopoulos said he did not mention anything about Russian dirt on Mrs Clinton to Mr Downer.

Mr Horowitz's report is being viewed by Trump supporters as only a prelude to another investigation led by US Attorney General William Barr and US Attorney for Connecticut John Durham.

Mr Trump called Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in September to ask for a point of contact between the Australian government and Mr Barr to help with the probe.

Australian Ambassador to the US Joe Hockey confirmed Australia was cooperating.

In October Mr Hockey publicly rebuked senior US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's claim Mr Downer was "directed" in 2016 to contact Mr Papadopoulos and pass the Russian dirt information to the FBI.

Mr Horowitz's report will be released at the same time the Democrat-controlled House Judiciary Committee continues impeachment hearings into Mr Trump's dealings with Ukraine.

"I.G. report out tomorrow. That will be the big story!" Mr Trump tweeted on Sunday.

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2019/12/09/australia-may-figure-in-new-trump-russia-report/

#6863550 at 2019-06-28 07:06:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #5 - Shill count HIGH Edition

>>6863506
Preparations underway for possible Donald Trump trip to Australia

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has invited US President Donald Trump to visit Melbourne in December as the two leaders canvass rising security concerns with Iran and the danger of a global trade war.

Mr Morrison asked Mr Trump to fly to Australia to attend the President's Cup golf tournament, seizing the opportunity to strengthen ties with the President during their working dinner on Thursday night.

The Prime Minister emerged from the meeting to declare Mr Trump did not seek Australian military help in the rising tensions with Iran, although the security challenges with Iran and North Korea were canvassed during the meeting.

The President's Cup is played at different locations every two years and will be held this year at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club from December 12 to 15 - the same venue used for the event in 1998 and 2011. The US team will be captained by US golf champion Tiger Woods.

While Mr Morrison extended his invitation during the private meeting, Mr Trump was asked during the open remarks at the start of the meeting if he would attend the golf tournament and replied: "I'd like to."

The Australian ambassador to the United States, Joe Hockey, has been working on plans to get Mr Trump to Melbourne for several months and the formal invitation intensifies that effort. Australian sources said it was right to estimate a 50:50 chance of the visit going ahead.

Mr Trump moved to ease Australian fears of a growing trade war by assuring Mr Morrison during the working dinner that he wanted to "maximise" the economic partnership between the two allies.

Mr Trump said he was committed to "fair, balanced and mutually beneficial" trade and investment.

But the President also canvassed security challenges including rising tensions with Iran after the Islamic republic shot down a US drone, leading Mr Trump to come close to launching a retaliatory strike.

Asked about this on Australian television on Friday morning, Mr Morrison said the US President did not seek Australian assistance.

"It certainly wasn't sought. We talked about these issues and we have been watching them very closely as well but there are no requests and at this stage I think those issues are a bit premature, but we are obviously concerned," Mr Morrison said.

"We would deal with any request from an ally such as the United States seriously and on its merits."

Also on the agenda was the challenge of halting North Korea's nuclear ambitions and the need for Australia and the US to work together in the Pacific, a region now subject to growing Chinese influence.

Mr Morrison said he spoke to Mr Trump about the trade tensions between the US and China ahead of the President's meeting on Saturday with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.

"We talked about the tensions that are there and the impact that has on the global economy and what that means for Australia," Mr Morrison said on Friday morning.

"They've got some fair dinkum issues they are trying to sort out. They will seek to do that, I am sure of that. There are things that do have to be sorted."

While US news reports have raised the idea of a "truce" on trade when Mr Trump meets Mr Xi, the message from Mr Morrison was that the outlook for a deal was difficult.

"I walked away [from the dinner] with the view that this is going to be tough because there are serious issues to be resolved, but that is what this gathering is about," he said.

"As long as people are talking, that is a positive thing."

In a worrying sign for Australian relations with China, there is no bilateral meeting scheduled between Mr Morrison and Mr Xi and there was no such meeting at the last G20 summit, held in Argentina last December.

Mr Morrison held a formal meeting with Chinese premier Li Keqiang in Singapore last December.

Mr Morrison rejected the idea that relations with China were "strained" and said he was sure there would be an opportunity for him to "catch up" with Mr Xi.

"Our patience, strategic patience I would describe it, and consistency is important," he said.

"We are supportive of China's economic growth. That has been great for Australia. We work constructively with everybody."

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/preparations-underway-for-possible-donald-trump-trip-to-australia-20190628-p52256.html

#6591923 at 2019-05-26 10:24:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #5 - Shill count HIGH Edition

Sinodinos tapped for US role as Trump raises questions over Australia

Scott Morrison has tapped one of the Coalition's most trusted voices, Arthur Sinodinos, to become the next ambassador to the United States as President Donald Trump raises questions over Australia's role in the FBI inquiry into his 2016 election.

Ahead of what could be a testing period for Australia's relationship with its most important diplomatic relationship, Senator Sinodinos - widely tipped to take a cabinet position in the re-elected Morrison government - will head to Washington.

The term of Joe Hockey, the current ambassador and former treasurer in the Abbott government, is to finish at the end of the year. This enabled Mr Morrison to offer the post to Senator Sinodinos who is expected to take over in January 2020, the start of a presidential election year.

Senator Sinodinos said he was pleased to take up the posting.

"I'm looking forward to the opportunity to serve my country abroad in this way," he said.

"This is a very good opportunity to regroup as a family after the health issues of recent years."

A highly respected former cabinet minister and chief of staff to John Howard, Senator Sinodinos served as Malcolm Turnbull's cabinet secretary but was forced to stand down to undergo treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He has since made a full recovery and was widely tipped to return to cabinet under Mr Morrison.

Senator Sinodinos, who will remain in the Senate until his posting, will walk straight into President Trump's concerns about the FBI investigation that led to the Mueller inquiry.

US Special Counsel Bob Mueller's report on links between the Trump campaign and Russia, pointed to a 2016 meeting between then Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos and Australian then high commissioner to the UK, Alexander Downer, in a London bar as prompting the FBI to open its Trump-Russia probe.

The FBI probe led to Mueller being appointed as special counsel.

Ahead of a weekend trip to Japan, President Trump said he had declassified intelligence documents so the truth of the FBI inquiry could be determined.

"He can look and I hope he looks at the UK and I hope he looks at Australia and I hope he looks at Ukraine.

"I hope he looks at everything, because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country."

United States Studies Centre fellow Bruce Wolpe said Senator Sinodinos would be a fine appointment because of his experience and sharp political instincts.

He said they would come in handy given the move by President Trump to investigate the events of 2016.

"The trick will be engaging with President Trump and figuring out how to protect Australia's interests and dealing with a very transactional president," he said.

"The Mueller investigation is clearly in the mind of the President and how he thinks about the relationship. There is a big risk from Australia's perspective that in the future, if there is a request of President Trump, he's going to take into account the history of the relationship."

Mr Morrison would not be drawn on Mr Trump's comments or move, saying he would not comment on an investigation that was under way.

Senator Sinodinos focused on the close ties between the two nations.

"We are two of the world's oldest continuing democracies and have fought alongside one another in all the major conflicts of the last century. Above all we stand for humane and decent universal values," he said.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/sinodinos-tapped-for-us-role-as-trump-raises-questions-over-australia-20190526-p51rbd.html

#6576605 at 2019-05-24 09:04:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #5 - Shill count HIGH Edition

#4 - Part 8/8
>>6549427 After 'Stunning' Conservative Win, NY Times Compares Australia to 'American South'
>>6549432 China's 'Social Credit System' Is Dystopian Nightmare
>>6549461 NZ study highlights the risk of 'deep fakes' on social media
>>6549471 'Nuclear Coffin' Might Be Leaking Radioactive Material Into Pacific, Says UN Chief
>>6556949 China's communists fund Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party: What the United States Congress was told
>>6576289 Downer mentioned in yet another Tweet
>>6576293 New Q posts referencing Australia, Five Eyes and FISA
>>6576306, >>6576371 Meteor crashes to earth at Mt Gambier, South Australia
>>6576383 Phillip Nitschke's 3D-printable 'Death Pod' for 'stylish' and 'peaceful' suicide premiered at Venice expo
>>6576391, >>6576437 Australian actor Geoffrey Rush awarded $2.9 million

Australian/Regional Resignations Bun
>>6184820 Nuk Korako resigns as NZ National MP
>>6237599 Another resignation from PNG cabinet - Justice Minister Davis Steven
>>6332148 Multiple resignations from PNG's People's National Congress party
>>6369369 One Nation's Steve Dickson resigns over strip club footage
>>6407925 Australian Cyber security chief MacGibbon resigns
>>6418178 Boss of troubled NDIA quits after less than two years in the role
>>6419766 3 Senior PNG Ministers Resign
>>6447134 Joe Hockey to leave post as Australia's ambassador to the United States
>>6494389 Director of company that may acquire Vodafone NZ resigns from Spark's board
>>6519753 AFL Victoria receives Gippsland commission's resignation amid insolvency fears

#6576563 at 2019-05-24 08:47:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #4 - Q Goes Down Under Edition

#4 - Part 8/8
>>6549427 After 'Stunning' Conservative Win, NY Times Compares Australia to 'American South'
>>6549432 China's 'Social Credit System' Is Dystopian Nightmare
>>6549461 NZ study highlights the risk of 'deep fakes' on social media
>>6549471 'Nuclear Coffin' Might Be Leaking Radioactive Material Into Pacific, Says UN Chief
>>6556949 China's communists fund Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party: What the United States Congress was told
>>6576289 Downer mentioned in yet another Tweet
>>6576293 New Q posts referencing Australia, Five Eyes and FISA
>>6576306, >>6576371 Meteor crashes to earth at Mt Gambier, South Australia
>>6576383 Phillip Nitschke's 3D-printable 'Death Pod' for 'stylish' and 'peaceful' suicide premiered at Venice expo
>>6576391, >>6576437 Australian actor Geoffrey Rush awarded $2.9 million

Australian/Regional Resignations Bun
>>6184820 Nuk Korako resigns as NZ National MP
>>6237599 Another resignation from PNG cabinet - Justice Minister Davis Steven
>>6332148 Multiple resignations from PNG's People's National Congress party
>>6369369 One Nation's Steve Dickson resigns over strip club footage
>>6407925 Australian Cyber security chief MacGibbon resigns
>>6418178 Boss of troubled NDIA quits after less than two years in the role
>>6419766 3 Senior PNG Ministers Resign
>>6447134 Joe Hockey to leave post as Australia's ambassador to the United States
>>6494389 Director of company that may acquire Vodafone NZ resigns from Spark's board
>>6519753 AFL Victoria receives Gippsland commission's resignation amid insolvency fears

#6503465 at 2019-05-15 09:15:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #4 - Q Goes Down Under Edition

Bill Shorten hints Julie Bishop could be his ambassador to the US as he praises her for standing up to Vladimir Putin and lashes the Liberal Party for not voting her leader

Bill Shorten has praised Julie Bishop's special 'talent' and announced he wants to talk to the outgoing MP about undertaking a high-profile role representing Australia if he wins government.

'I think Julie Bishop is good at most things she does,' he told the Leadership Matters forum in Western Australia on Wednesday.

The Labor leader spoke highly of the former Foreign Affairs Minister when asked if he would consider her for an ambassadorial position.

'She says she wants to work in the private sector, but I'll certainly be talking to her,' he said according to The West Australian.

'I'm saying to you quite unreservedly here that I've got a lot of respect for her, Chloe and I know her well, she's a good person and we can't waste talent,' he said.

Australia's current ambassador to the US, former Liberal Treasurer Joe Hockey, has called it quits and will be returning home in January after three years in the job.

Mr Shorten lashed the Liberal Party for not choosing Ms Bishop as their leader and therefor PM during last year's leadership spill in which Scott Morrison triumphed,

'Candidly, I think the Liberal Party made a mistake (by not electing her leader),' he said.

'When none of her West Australian colleagues voted for her after everything she's done for them, from fundraising to policy - what is it so hard about Liberal men to vote for Liberal women in positions of leadership.'

Mr Shorten went on to praise Ms Bishop for her stint as Foreign Affairs Minister and the manner in which she handled the MH17 disaster.

'She's served this country well. I haven't always agreed with everything she's said but I will always rate her very highly for when the plane of Australians was shot down over eastern Ukraine,' he said.

'I hope that if I was seeing Vladimir Putin, the way she stood up to the Russians, I hope that in the same circumstances I would behave like her.'

The suggestion to make a high ranking former Liberal draws a contrast to the events of 2016 when Malcolm Turnbull faced pressure from the cabinet and refused to nominate Kevin Rudd as UN secretary general.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7030699/Bill-Shorten-hints-Julie-Bishop-ambassador-US.html

#6447134 at 2019-05-08 18:21:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #4 - Q Goes Down Under Edition

Resignations / FIVE EYES news -

Joe Hockey to leave post as Australia's ambassador to the United States

Australia's Ambassador to the United States, Joe Hockey, has decided to return home when his posting ends in January, regardless of who wins next weekend's federal election.

The former Liberal treasurer has served in the role since 2016, throughout an often chaotic period in American politics which has seen Donald Trump's administration regularly ignore traditional diplomatic niceties.

During his posting, Mr Hockey has developed ties in Congress and the White House.

An enthusiastic albeit unaccomplished golfer, he has also joined President Donald Trump on the fairways a few times, most recently at the Commander-in-Chief's Florida resort Mar-a-Lago.

The valuable one-on-one time is reported to have made some other members of Washington DC's diplomatic community envious.

The valuable one-on-one time is reported to have made some other members of Washington DC's diplomatic community envious.

Notably Mr Hockey also successfully lobbied to ensure Australia retained exclusive access to US E-3 visas, amid a push by Ireland to muscle in on the scheme, and oversaw the construction of a grass tennis court at the Australian Ambassador's residence in the leafy north-west of Washington.

An embassy spokeswoman declined to comment on Mr Hockey's departure, but the ABC understands he has informed some staff.

Whoever replaces Mr Hockey will have the task of quickly building ties with an occasionally unpredictable White House, during what is shaping up to be a fractious election year.

With polls suggesting a Labor government could be elected on May 18, there has been plenty of speculation about who Bill Shorten might appoint to the plum job.

Former Labor communications minister Stephen Conroy and former Labor defence minister Stephen Smith are two names often spoken about in Washington circles.

During his career as a cabinet minister, Mr Hockey delivered two budgets following the Abbott government's election in 2013.

He was made ambassador after Malcolm Turnbull took over as Prime Minister.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-08/Joe-Hockey-to-leave-post-as-us-ambassador/11091452

#5443933 at 2019-03-01 05:11:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #3 - March MADNESS Edition

Notables
are not endorsements

#2 - Part 1/4
>>4908182 The Pentecostal Prime Minister and the Jerusalem embassy stunt
>>4908260 Why is Scott Morrison protecting Hillsong Pastor Brian Houston?
>>4911890 Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion to become third minister to quit politics
>>4923058, >>4923090, >>4923108 Foreign-funded green groups could take whole swathes of Australia out of the productive economy
>>4923181 Soros n Turnbull Partnership
>>4923572 8Chan posting tips for Newfags, Test Board and archive.fo links
>>4930940 Sketchy GC Mayor Tom Tate lies - local Murdoch rag covers it up
>>4930976 No one is buying the Coalition's neoliberal message
>>4934255, >>4934681 Senator Michaelia Cash vs. Senator Doug Cameron - "rumours in this place abound"
>>4934683 Anon muses - "do the opposite of what the news tell ya"

>>4937627 NOTABLES FROM OZ BREAD #1 - https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4520.html
>>4935957 The Clinton Foundation, Malcolm Turnbull (X/AUS) and the leaked phone call with POTUS in Q drops
>>4935964 "Blood" in Q drop #908 - reference to Australian Red Cross?
>>4936800 Abbott vs Turnbull: Republic Debate (1993)
>>4940385 Australia backs Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president
>>4940912 Independent Australia's Bloody Idiot of the Week - ScoMo's red hot go!
>>4942474 Whitewashing occupation? Bill Shorten and the Israel Lobby
>>4942503 Palestinians accuse Australian PM of 'bribing Zionist lobby'
>>4945164 Mandatory vaccine push by Big Pharma tied to Australian Prime Minister's wife
>>4946417 Grant Goldman calls out Scott Morrison & his association to cults covering up paedophilia
>>4946437 Parents who won't vaccinate their children on 'religious grounds' will lose claim to family benefits, government says

Fiona Barnett Bun
>>4946470 Former Australian Prime Ministers named in VIP pedophile ring
>>4974745 fionabarnett.org - An Australian Experience of Ritual Abuse & Mind Control
>>4974755 Fiona Barnett Candy Girl Documentary / Satanic Ritual Abuse
>>4984025 Kim Beazley Senior: ASIO Agent and Child Trafficker
>>4985770 Fiona Barnett Press Conference - October 2015, Sydney
>>5050776 Collection Known info of Evidence against Bad Actor: Fiona Barnett
>>5357476 Fiona Barnett's response - Unnecessary Evidence

>>4946633 Clinton Foundation And Australian Government Money Laundering Scandal
>>4946964, >>4947052, >>4947072, >>4947085, >>4947109 Australia Notes - Anon's rundown on Australian politics and society
>>4947110 Melbourne's immigrant communities fight back against the rise of white supremacy in Australia
>>4947376 Cory Bernardi, conservative warrior

Webuyyourkids Bun
>>4949007 We Buy Your Kids - company that makes pedo art for corporate and government clients
>>4949012, >>4949033, >>4986642 Illuminati, pizzagate and pedovore symbolism
>>4986649, >>4986745 Ezra Haidet / Middle of Beyond - satanic symbolism

>>4962385, >>4962576 Australian Army to take terror attack lead, not local police under Malcolm Turnbull overhaul
>>4962933 Australian Rhodes Scholars and Fabians
>>4963024, >>4963031, >>4963042 Australian Parliament to pass expanded laws to call out the Military to suppress Domestic Unrest
>>4974095, >>4974243, >>4974329, >>5000911 Anons discuss - Is the ADF loyal to the people?
>>4969787 Former Sydney Scoutmaster in court over child sex assault charges
>>4982900 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull personally linked to a second multi-million-dollar fraud of taxpayer's money

Julie Bishop Bun
>>4984385 Bill Shorten to offer Julie Bishop diplomatic post if elected
>>4986870 Welcome back to Australia Hillary Clinton tweet
>>5010347 Julie Bishop parts with iconic red shoes
>>5010984 More red shoe images
>>5298151, >>5322724 Julie Bishop announces she will quit politics at the next election
>>5372438 Julie Bishop denies any link between donation from elderly Chinese mogul and advisor's appointment

>>5322724 Downer, Hockey, Bishop, Turnbull and the 2016 Presidential election
>>4985605, >>4986646, >>4986273 Joe Hockey, his wife and We Don't Say His Name
>>4985770, >>4985778 How to embed YouTube videos on 8chan
>>4985715, >>4985725, >>4986817 John Brumby, former premier of Victoria retires from Board of Huawei unit
>>4988429 Hitler's Gestapo in the Barossa Valley
>>4988508 Australia a "safe haven" for Nazi war criminals
>>4990443, >>5218035 Conspiracy theories swirl around Australia's 'missing' gold
>>4990611, >>4990636 Frank Lowy, Zionism and 9/11
>>4994211, >>4994241 Hillary Clinton's 2018 speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand, with Julia Gillard and Jacinda Ardern

#5437354 at 2019-02-28 21:00:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #2

2. Helloworld - Goodbye credibility

It was Helloworld and goodbye credibility for the Finance Minister last week, who claimed he hadn't even noticed the travel company run by the Liberal Party Treasurer hadn't charged him almost $2800 for his family holiday for nearly two years.

It got even murkier with a bombshell email sent to the foreign affairs committee by a former Helloworld employee. He claimed Helloworld's CEO was able to set up a meeting, at short notice, with officials from the Australian embassy in Washington to discuss its bid for a lucrative contract because Australia's ambassador to the US (and former Liberal Treasurer, Joe Hockey) "owed" him. Helloworld's CEO denies this and the Government insists Mr Hockey hasn't done anything wrong.

Just more evidence that the Liberals are only interested in looking after themselves and their mates at the top end of town and not governing in the interests of all Australians.

Comps of Penny Wong
Published on Feb 24, 2019

#5391521 at 2019-02-26 09:00:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #2

Collected Notables from Q Research AUSTRALIA #2, posting to test format and layout. Corrections / suggestions happily accepted. I will compile again around 700 replies, then one final time around 730-ish before stating a new thread. A HUGE thank you to those who bring us Oz-related content from Q Research General. Just look at what we're done in one short month!

Notables
are not endorsements

#2 - Part 1/3
>>4908182 The Pentecostal Prime Minister and the Jerusalem embassy stunt
>>4908260 Why is Scott Morrison protecting Hillsong Pastor Brian Houston?
>>4911890 Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion to become third minister to quit politics
>>4923058, >>4923090, >>4923108 Foreign-funded green groups could take whole swathes of Australia out of the productive economy
>>4923181 Soros n Turnbull Partnership
>>4923572 8Chan posting tips for Newfags, Test Board and archive.fo links
>>4930940 Sketchy GC Mayor Tom Tate lies - local Murdoch rag covers it up
>>4930976 No one is buying the Coalition's neoliberal message
>>4934255, >>4934681 Senator Michaelia Cash vs. Senator Doug Cameron - "rumours in this place abound"

>>4934683 Anon muses - "do the opposite of what the news tell ya"
>>4935957 The Clinton Foundation, Malcolm Turnbull (X/AUS) and the leaked phone call with POTUS in Q drops
>>4935964 "Blood" in Q drop #908 - reference to Australian Red Cross?
>>4936800 Abbott vs Turnbull: Republic Debate (1993)
>>4940385 Australia backs Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president
>>4940912 Independent Australia's Bloody Idiot of the Week - ScoMo's red hot go!
>>4942474 Whitewashing occupation? Bill Shorten and the Israel Lobby
>>4942503 Palestinians accuse Australian PM of 'bribing Zionist lobby'
>>4945164 Mandatory vaccine push by Big Pharma tied to Australian Prime Minister's wife
>>4946417 Grant Goldman calls out Scott Morrison & his association to cults covering up paedophilia
>>4946437 Parents who won't vaccinate their children on 'religious grounds' will lose claim to family benefits, government says

Fiona Barnett Bun
>>4946470 Former Australian Prime Ministers named in VIP pedophile ring
>>4974745 fionabarnett.org - An Australian Experience of Ritual Abuse & Mind Control
>>4974755 Fiona Barnett Candy Girl Documentary / Satanic Ritual Abuse
>>4984025 Kim Beazley Senior: ASIO Agent and Child Trafficker
>>4985770 Fiona Barnett Press Conference - October 2015, Sydney
>>5050776 Collection Known info of Evidence against Bad Actor: Fiona Barnett
>>5357476 Fiona Barnett's response - Unnecessary Evidence

>>4946633 Clinton Foundation And Australian Government Money Laundering Scandal
>>4946964, >>4947052, >>4947072, >>4947085, >>4947109 Australia Notes - Anon's rundown on Australian politics and society
>>4947110 Melbourne's immigrant communities fight back against the rise of white supremacy in Australia
>>4947376 Cory Bernardi, conservative warrior

Webuyyourkids Bun
>>4949007 We Buy Your Kids - company that makes pedo art for corporate and government clients
>>4949012, >>4949033, >>4986642 Illuminati, pizzagate and pedovore symbolism
>>4986649, >>4986745 Ezra Haidet / Middle of Beyond - satanic symbolism

>>4962385, >>4962576 Australian Army to take terror attack lead, not local police under Malcolm Turnbull overhaul
>>4962933 Australian Rhodes Scholars and Fabians
>>4963024, >>4963031, >>4963042 Australian Parliament to pass expanded laws to call out the Military to suppress Domestic Unrest
>>4974095, >>4974243, >>4974329, >>5000911 Anons discuss - Is the ADF loyal to the people?
>>4969787 Former Sydney Scoutmaster in court over child sex assault charges
>>4982900 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull personally linked to a second multi-million-dollar fraud of taxpayer's money

Julie Bishop Bun
>>4984385 Bill Shorten to offer Julie Bishop diplomatic post if elected
>>4986870 Welcome back to Australia Hillary Clinton tweet
>>5010347 Julie Bishop parts with iconic red shoes
>>5010984 More red shoe images
>>5298151, >>5322724 Julie Bishop announces she will quit politics at the next election
>>5372438 Julie Bishop denies any link between donation from elderly Chinese mogul and advisor's appointment

>>5322724 Downer, Hockey, Bishop, Turnbull and the 2016 Presidential election
>>4985605, >>4986646, >>4986273 Joe Hockey, his wife and We Don't Say His Name
>>4985770, >>4985778 How to embed YouTube videos on 8chan
>>4985715, >>4985725, >>4986817 John Brumby, former premier of Victoria retires from Board of Huawei unit
>>4988429 Hitler's Gestapo in the Barossa Valley
>>4988508 Australia a "safe haven" for Nazi war criminals
>>4990443, >>5218035 Conspiracy theories swirl around Australia's 'missing' gold
>>4990611, >>4990636 Frank Lowy, Zionism and 9/11
>>4994211, >>4994241 Hillary Clinton's 2018 speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand, with Julia Gillard and Jacinda Ardern

#5322724 at 2019-02-22 11:13:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #2

Julie Bishop, former foreign minister, announces resignation from Parliament

Sourced from QRes#6783

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/julie-bishop-former-foreign-minister-announces-resignation-from-parliament/ar-BBTSFBE?li=AAgfLCP

"If Alexander Downer was telling the truth and the FBI heard about a Russian connection from Joe Hockey, then it is absolutely the case that both Julie Bishop as minister for foreign affairs and prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and, therefore, the Commonwealth government, interfered on behalf of the Clinton campaign in the 2016 Presidential election."

https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/09/deep-state-downer-the-foreign-minister-the-pm-and-the-clinton-campaign/

#4986646 at 2019-02-01 10:25:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #2

>>4986320

Note: When HIH Insurance went bankrupt in March 2001, Joe Hockey was the minister responsible for the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), which oversaw HIH. Although Hockey's office had sought written assurances from HIH that everything was fine, the public felt that Hockey was to blame [and he was!].

Sauce to image: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/Joe-Hockeys-wife-appointed-to-qsuper-board-20130812-2rsdy.html

#4985605 at 2019-02-01 06:11:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #2

>>4985265

Whatever happened to Mr Abbots 2IC .. the cigar smoking smiling assassin Joe Hockey … didnt he end up going to America ?