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Influential UK foreign affairs select committee recommends Japan and South Korea join the security partnership to develop critical technology

In a role once occupied by Labor giants, Richard Marles has stood out for all the wrong reasons in the Albanese government.

Labor hasn’t lived up to the promise of the ethical, honest and energetic government Australia voted for, Crikey readers say.

As the general election nears, the campaign focus so far has been almost exclusively on domestic issues. And yet, over the past two months, no fewer than five government documents have been released outlining the significant defence and security challenges the country now faces.

The remaining progressive and left forces within the ALP have been pretty much blown out of the water by the nuclear subs deal.

Strategy, as the great military thinker Carl von Clausewitz once observed, is the process of effectively applying means to achieve clearly defined ends. But good strategy in global politics has proved easier said than done.

AUKUS commits us to the US’ war with China, while the submarine deal drains our capacity to build a better society.

As the big-ticket items were being discussed on the big stage at Labor’s national conference, off to the side a ‘fringe’ group talked up a storm.

Anthony Albanese defends organising an internship with PwC for his son Nathan when he was opposition leader, and Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick tells BHP it will lose its mining leases if it follows through with its threat to no longer invest ‘in any further growth’ in the state.

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As the world heats in the next seven years Australia’s triple-A credit rating will cool, and a judge has ruled a father cannot see two of his three sons for four months after ‘confusing’ them over their gender identity.