by Richard Stone In April, the Australian government selected US arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin to partner the Department of Defence to build the JP Defence Satellite Communications system following the tender process. It has shown the age-old concept of the military-industrial complex is alive and well in Australia, with all that area of state activity entails with security vetting procedures …

by Richard Stone Recent coverage about the diplomatic significance of President Biden not attending the ASEAN summit has tended to concentrate upon information of questionable relevance while ignoring the significance of related matters. The growing significance of ASEAN as a regional trade body in the most dynamic sector of the global economy and the strategic nature of some member countries, …

by Bevan Ramsden * This is not a conspiracy theory. The United States interference in Australia’s domestic politics was confirmed by no lesser person than the President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, in an apology to Gough Whitlam via the President’s envoy at a breakfast meeting in the Qantas lounge in 1977. Whitlam conveyed the substance of the meeting …