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>>16343573 Q Research AUSTRALIA #23

Q's Posts made on Q Research AUSTRALIA threads

Wednesday 11.20.2019

>>7358352 ————————————–——– These people are stupid.

>>7358338 ————————————–——– All assets [F + D] being deployed.

>>7358318 ————————————–——– What happens when the PUBLIC discovers the TRUTH [magnitude] re: [D] party corruption?

Tuesday 11.19.2019

>>7357790 ————————————–——– FISA goes both ways.

Saturday 11.16.2019

>>7356270 ————————————–——– There is no escaping God.

>>7356265 ————————————–——– The Harvest [crop] has been prepared and soon will be delivered to the public for consumption.

Friday 11.15.2019

>>7356017 ————————————–——– "Whistle Blower Traps" [Mar 4 2018] 'Trap' keyword select provided…..

Thursday 03.28.2019

>>5945210 ————————————–——– Sometimes our 'sniffer' picks and pulls w/o applying credit file

>>5945074 ————————————–——– We LOVE you!

>>5944970 ————————————–——– USA v. LifeLog?

>>5944908 ————————————–——– It is an embarrassment to our Nation!

>>5944859 ————————————–——– 'Knowingly'

Q's Posts referencing Australia

https://qanon.pub/?q=AUS

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https://qanon.pub/?q=HouseOfCards

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Q's Posts referencing Australian citizens

Malcolm Turnbull (X/AUS)

Former Prime Minister of Australia, 2015 to 2018

https://qanon.pub/?q=X%2FAUS

https://qanon.pub/?q=call%20details

https://qanon.pub/?q=Threat%20to%20AUS

Alexander Downer

Former Australian Liberal Party politician and former Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom

https://qanon.pub/?q=Downer

Cardinal George Pell

Australian Cardinal of the Catholic Church and former Prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy

https://qanon.pub/?q=Pell

https://qanon.pub/?q=cardinal-george-pell

https://qanon.pub/?q=pecking

Julian Assange

Australian activist, founder, editor and publisher of WikiLeaks

https://qanon.pub/?q=assange

https://qanon.pub/?q=JA

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https://qanon.pub/?q=WL

https://qanon.pub/?q=wikileaks

https://qanon.pub/?q=crowdstrike

https://qanon.pub/?q=server

https://qanon.pub/?q=Seth

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https://qalerts.app/?q=snowden

https://qanon.pub/?q=roadmap

Virginia Roberts Giuffre

American-Australian survivor of the sex trafficking ring operated by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

https://qanon.pub/#4568

https://qanon.pub/#4728

https://qanon.pub/#1054

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https://qanon.pub/?q=island

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Q's Posts referencing The Five Eyes intelligence alliance (FVEY)

An anglophone intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States

https://qanon.pub/?q=FVEY

https://qanon.pub/?q=Five%20Eyes

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"Does AUS stand w/ the US or only select divisions within the US?"

Q

Nov 25 2018

https://qanon.pub/#2501

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Notables

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#24 - Part 1

Australian Politics and Society

>>16655702 Jacinda Ardern in Australia: PM describes 'change in the relationship' as she arrives in Sydney

>>16655717 Ardern’s ‘catch-up’ with Andrews brings vow to tap Victorian infrastructure expertise

>>16655769 Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand's no-nuclear line on AUKUS subs met with 'understanding and appreciation' in Australia

>>16655881 AUKUS submarines: Marles commits to local jobs, won’t rule out ready-made submarine stopgap

>>16656001, >>16656014 Mark Dreyfus orders Commonwealth to drop Bernard Collaery East Timor spying charges

>>16670597, >>16670654, >>16670684, >>16670751, >>16670835 Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe killed by gunman in campaign attack, Albanese and other respond

#24 - Part 2

Australia / China Tensions

>>16655314, >>16655314 Wong: It is in Australia’s interests to stabilise relationship with China

>>16655322 Opportunity for Australia to further warm relations with China in Bali: China Daily editorial

>>16655327 Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare thanks China, refuses to answer questions from Australian press

>>16655563, >>16655567 'Concrete actions required' for Albanese govt to replace 'microphone diplomacy' to improve damaged China-Australia ties

>>16655582 Diplomatic freeze ends: China locks in Wong meeting

>>16655681 FBI, MI5 heads issue joint warning on China's threat to Western security (mp4)

#24 _ Part 3

Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic, Australia and Worldwide

>>16656037 Australia expands fourth COVID dose rollout amid fresh Omicron threat

>>16656069 Victorian Health Minister will not rule out mask mandates and working from home orders as COVID-19 cases surge

>>16662992 China appeasing WHO Chief and Lancet Commission Chairman support the lab leak theory

#24 - Part 4

Child Exploitation, Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Investigations

>>16655905 Notorious paedophile Bradley Pen Dragon bailed after pleading not guilty to breaching release order

>>16655939, >>16655943 Tasmania Police apologise to abuse victims over paedophile James Geoffrey Griffin

#24 - Part 5

Russia and Ukraine

>>16655612 Russia, Australia relations at lowest in decades: envoy

>>16655640 ‘Contempt’: Anthony Albanese makes G20 summit promise to Vladimir Putin

>>16655648 Australia warned to stop sending weapons to Ukraine (video)

>>16674960 Biden to give $1 billion more in weapons to Ukraine

#24 - Part 6

Q / Qanon / Conspiracy Theory Hit Pieces, Australia and Worldwide

>>16658125 Q DROP #586 AS THE WORLD TURNS

>>16676907 Julian's Rum take on Q's TOR id being comms (link)

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Greetings Australia!

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Anons worry when the Aussies go missing, so have a bread

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Reposting Q Research AUSTRALIA #23 and #24 combined Notables and Updated Dough.

>>16343573 Q Research AUSTRALIA #23

>>16655142 Q Research AUSTRALIA #24

Notables

are not endorsements

#23 and #24 - Part 1

Australian Politics and Society - Part 1

>>16343646 Uyghurs in Australia scour through thousands of leaked photos from Xinjiang Police Files searching for loved ones

>>16343649 The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps - John Sudworth, May 2022 - bbc.co.uk

>>16343649 The Xinjiang Police Files - Unprecedented evidence from internal police networks in China’s Xinjiang region proves prison-like nature of re-education camps, shows top Chinese leaders’ direct involvement in the mass internment campaign

>>16343649 PDF: The Xinjiang Police Files: Re-Education Camp Security and Political Paranoia in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

>>16343656 Video: Leaked "Xinjiang Police Files" reveal signs of distress among Uyghurs - ABC News (Australia)

>>16343917 Video: Penny Wong visits Fiji, saying Australia neglected Pacific on climate change, as China's Wang Yi visits Solomon Islands

>>16344039 Peter Dutton 2.0: I’ll be a gentler and caring me - Peter Dutton has promised that Australians will see another side of his character as opposition leader, arguing the Liberal Party is the natural champion of families, small business and aspirational workers across the ­nation’s cities, suburbs and regions

>>16344054 Peter Dutton seeks to recast his image as Tanya Plibersek apologises for likening him to Voldemort

>>16349783 Election 2022: Scott Morrison says teal independents who unseated up to six moderate Liberals ran a “vicious and brutal campaign” against the Coalition, as he confirmed he would remain in parliament as a backbencher

>>16349788 ‘Trust and respect’: Macron agrees to rebuild ties with Australia - French President Emmanuel Macron has said he is ready to start rebuilding his country’s fractured relationship with Australia, during his first phone call with new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

>>16349801 US State Department greenlights proposed sale of half-a-billion-dollars in rocket launch capability to Australia - Australia’s to purchase 20 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) vehicles for approximately US$385 million (AU$542 million)

>>16349873 Video: Wong takes on Beijing over climate, debt and influence - Foreign Minister Penny Wong has warned Pacific leaders a region-wide security and trade deal with Beijing could sacrifice their independence, lead to unsustainable debt levels and endanger the region

>>16350107 China-Australia relations: ex-Australian PM Kevin Rudd tells West to offer alternatives to Pacific islands, not ‘lectures’ about their ties with Beijing

>>16350130 Australian scholars call for improvement of China-Australia relationship - Xinhua - english.news.cn

>>16350134 David Goodman and others – An Open letter to the New Government on relations with China - Pearls and Irritations, johnmenadue.com

>>16356206 President Biden Tweet: I’ve got more good news: 27.5 million bottles of safe infant formula manufactured by Bubs Australia are coming to the United States. We’re doing everything in our power to get more formula on shelves as soon as possible.

>>16356206 Arthur Sinodinos, Australia’s Ambassador to the United States Tweet: Great that @BubsAustralia is helping out American families in need with clean, safe infant formula

>>16356206 Kristy Carr, Founder CEO - Bubs Australia Tweet: Thank you, Mr. President. We know this problem can’t be solved by one company alone but @BubsAustralia hopes that we can help bring some relief to American families by offering a clean, safe formula for their babies during these challenging times.

>>16356292 Australian killed in Ukraine remembered as a ‘larrikin’ and ‘battler’ - Father-of-three Michael Charles O’Neill, 47, who lived in Hobart, was killed on Wednesday while providing humanitarian aid in Ukraine following the Russian invasion

>>16356338 José Ramos-Horta accuses Alexander Downer of ‘distorting’ issues around 2004 Timor-Leste bugging - President of south-east Asian nation says Australia used cover of ‘supposedly altruistic foreign aid program’ to spy on behalf of oil companies

#23 and #24 - Part 2

Australian Politics and Society - Part 2

>>16356341 Video: Alexander Downer on Australia's Spy Agencies - ABC Australia Q+A

>>16366776 Video: New Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton vows to target ‘forgotten Australians’

>>16366805 Video: David Littleproud elected to lead the Nationals in opposition after post-election leadership vote

>>16366975 Video: Lawyers in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide move to subpoena the source code for the encrypted AN0M app - Lawyers representing alleged bikie chiefs, mafia members and drug kingpins are mounting legal challenges to the software at the heart of Operation Ironside – the encrypted AN0M app

>>16367044 U.S. Embassy Australia Tweet: Memorial Day - Each year on the last Monday of May, Americans honor the men and women who have lost their lives in military service. We express our deepest gratitude for the courageous Americans who have given their lives in service to the United States. #MemorialDay

>>16367044 Q Post #1350 - If America falls, the World falls. God bless our brave fighting men & women. They deserve our deepest gratitude. Through their strength, and the millions of united Patriots around the World, we will succeed in this fight. Peace through strength. Now comes the pain. Q

>>16372011 Californian Fairytales: what Google, Facebook and Netflix told the Australian Tax Office - michaelwest.com.au

>>16372849 Video: Anthony Albanese promises to lead more inclusive government in first speech to Labor caucus

>>16373206 Arthur Sinodinos, Australia’s Ambassador to the United States Tweet: This Memorial Day, we join our American friends in paying tribute to the lives & legacies of those who made the ultimate sacrifice in serving their country & we honour their courage. - Sunrise over Iwo Jima Memorial photo, Marine Corps War Memorial - gordonklau instagram

>>16373206 Australian Embassy, USA Tweet: The Embassy is closed today, Monday 30 May in observance of #MemorialDay. If you are an Australian citizen requiring consular assistance at this time, please call the Consular Operations Center in Canberra from the US on +61 2 6261 3305. - Sunrise over Iwo Jima Memorial photo, Marine Corps War Memorial - gordonklau instagram

>>16379313 US President Joe Biden says New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s leadership ‘critical’ as US tackles mass shootings

>>16379319 Bridging submarine ‘capability gap’ is top priority in defence, says Australia‘s new Defence Minister Richard Marles

>>16379329 Bec Judd takes Bayside crime fight to Daniel Andrews - Businesswoman Bec Judd has declared she won’t be silenced when it comes to standing up for her Brighton community over escalating crime

>>16384764 Five Eyes Chiefs of Defence Hold Talks in London - UK hosting Chiefs of Defence from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States over three days of events in London

>>16384775 Biden gives Bubs a big thumbs up on baby formula delivery - US President Joe Biden thanks Australian infant formula maker Bubs Australia as the first batch of Bubs’ product gets ready to land into the hands of desperate American parents late next week

>>16384827 Kevin Rudd: I don't believe Peter Dutton regrets walking out on the Apology to the Stolen Generations - Kevin Rudd - canberratimes.com.au

>>16390567 Australian Federal Police train team of digital technology sniffer dogs to target child abuse operations and terrorism perpetrators

>>16390587 Inside Bubs Australia's US formula mission and the call with POTUS

>>16395696 Australian PM honours Queen Elizabeth amid renewed republican debate - Anthony Albanese renames Canberra's Aspen Island to Queen Elizabeth II Island, describing it as a "fitting salute" to the monarch

>>16399548 Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has set up an agency to monitor Victorians - Explosive documents reveal Daniel Andrews has set up a “deeply disturbing” Big Brother-style data agency to monitor how we think, feel and spend

#23 and #24 - Part 3

Australian Politics and Society - Part 3

>>16399563 Video: 'I've stepped up' Australian soldier declares from Ukrainian front line while fighting against Russia

>>16403519 Anthony Albanese, Joko Widodo agree to strengthen ties during Indonesia visit

>>16403557 Australian injured on Ukraine frontline - An Australian man who joined the Ukraine foreign legion has been injured on the war’s frontline, coming under fire during some of the fiercest fighting in Sievierodonetsk

>>16403557 Radio Svoboda Tweet: The Armed Forces are trying to gain a foothold in Severodonetsk and prepare for counter-offensive operations. They were assisted by units of foreigners from around the world, who voluntarily formed a separate special unit and are fighting on the side of Ukraine.

>>16403563 Video: The Foreign Legion entered Severodonetsk. Fighting for the city continues - Radio Svoboda Ukraine

>>16403575 Google ordered to pay John Barilaro $715,000 over 'vulgar' YouTube videos made by comedian Jordan Shanks

>>16403591 Bilderberg: World’s most secretive group meets in Washington without a single Australian among the attendees

>>16408454 Federal Court orders Twitter to release information on controversial @PRGuy17 account - The Federal Court has ordered Twitter to release information that could reveal the identity of the person behind a high-profile political account that attracted large audiences during the pandemic with its pro-lockdown and pro-Labor commentary

>>16408480 Video: Man who struck police horse and threw traffic bollard at officer during Melbourne lockdown protests pleads guilty

>>16408493 Video: Operation Ironside - Australian Federal Police targeting Italian mafia figures in next phase of 'AN0M' probe, using intelligence gained from a secret app planted on the mobile phones of organised criminals

>>16408509 Australian Federal Police issue crack down on Mafia-style crime families - Police are conducting a nationwide sting to crack down on Italian organised crime families they believe are pulling the strings of bikie gangs

>>16408568 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: Video: SOUTHERN JACKAROO 22 - “There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them” -Winston Churchill - On the day we remember the brave Soldiers at Normandy, we look to strengthen our alliances around the world in support of freedom, and to stand against tyranny.

>>16413315 AFP intel aids global crackdown - Australian Federal Police helping hunt down Italian organised crime syndicates in Europe with intelligence gathered through the Trojan horse mobile phone app, 'AN0M'

>>16413332 Queensland man charged over impersonating Australian Federal Police commissioner Reece Kershaw, importing 500 counterfeit AFP badges

>>16413349 Delil Alexander, suspected Islamic State terrorist and dual Australian-Turkish citizen has Australian citizenship returned after High Court strikes down key section of Citizenship Act

>>16413391 NASA launching three rockets from Arnhem Space Centre in the Northern Territory, June 26 to July 12 2022

>>16415735 AFP warns Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group that foreign governments are supporting organised crime in Australia

>>16418526 Labor must not torpedo crucial submarine plan - Peter Dutton, Leader of the Federal Opposition - theaustralian.com.au

>>16418564 Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw warns Five Eyes about hostile governments

>>16418573 Police probe into Chinese money laundering syndicate headquartered in Australia - Australian law enforcement agencies, in partnership with officials from the United States and Canada, have also compiled intelligence that suggests Chinese companies and brokers are supplying the vast majority of precursor chemicals used to make illicit drugs on the Australian market

#23 and #24 - Part 4

Australian Politics and Society - Part 4

>>16424776 Magic of Camelot comes to Australia - Caroline Kennedy has the judgment which was evident in both her father and her uncle, senator Robert F. Kennedy

>>16424802 Q Post #703 - “Rest in peace Mr. President (JFK), through your wisdom and strength, since your tragic death, Patriots have planned, installed, and by the grace of God, activated, the beam of LIGHT. We will forever remember your sacrifice. May you look down from above and continue to guide us as we ring the bell of FREEDOM and destroy those who wish to sacrifice our children, our way of life, and our world. We, the PEOPLE.” Prayer said every single day in the OO. JFK - Secret Socities. Where we go one, we go all. Q

>>16424835 US-Australia alliance remains force for good - Americans and Australians believe in democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. We feel it in our bones. This foundation is under threat - Michael Goldman, Charge d’affaires ad interim to the Commonwealth of Australia since January 2021

>>16424856 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern affirm ‘reset’ of trans-Tasman partnership

>>16424890 ‘Evil people’: Peter Dutton issues chilling warning, says the Labor government is so divided on its asylum seeker policy it’s sending the wrong message to “evil” people smugglers

>>16425000 Sean Turnell’s trial to proceed, rules Myanmar court - A court in Myanmar has ruled that prosecutors have presented sufficient evidence against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Australian economist Sean Turnell and three other defendants to continue their trial on charges of violating the official secrets law

>>16430017 Australia to pay French company $830 million over scrapped submarine deal - The Albanese government has reached an $830 million settlement with French shipbuilder Naval Group after last year’s decision to scrap a $90 billion contract to build 12 submarines

>>16434651 Australian Federal Police arrest Chinese-British national Chung Chak Lee, alleged international drug kingpin extradited from Thailand

>>16434656 Video: Alleged senior crime syndicate member extradited to Australia - afp.gov.au

>>16434739 U.S. Embassy Australia Tweet: “On Friday, I was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to Australia. I am grateful to President Biden for his leadership and for giving me the chance to represent America to our vital ally Australia" -Ambassador Kennedy (1/2)

>>16434739 U.S. Embassy Australia Tweet: "I am excited to work with @SecBlinken and colleagues in the State Department to implement U.S. policy in the Indo-Pacific at this critical time. Can’t wait to get there!” - Ambassador Kennedy #USwithAUS

>>16439093 Video: ‘Accusations of sabotage’ from within Liberal Party during federal election - Sky News host Sharri Markson: New South Wales Treasurer and climate change champion, Matt Kean, has been caught intervening in the election campaign Scott Morrison was bitterly fighting

>>16439103 David Elliott accuses Matt Kean of ‘treachery‘ for backgrounding against former PM Scott Morrison

>>16439103 Re-elect PM? Turns out some weren’t so Kean - Sharri Markson - theaustralian.com.au

>>16439590 Malcolm Turnbull labels Peter Dutton a 'belligerent blusterer' over nuclear submarines claim - Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has criticised previous defence minister Peter Dutton over the handling of the nuclear submarine deal with France

>>16443824 Australia sending two shipments of baby formula amid ‘shocking’ US shortage - Bubs Australia has sent a massive care package to the US after Joe Biden warned of a mounting crisis gripping thousands of Americans

>>16443830 The defence deal between Australia’s Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. and the US speaks of the highest level of commercial trust - The US Defense Department’s decision to award 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

>>16443839 Threat of right wing terror ‘real’, lone actor attacks concerning - The threat posed by far-right terrorism is real and authorities are concerned about attacks by lone actors, a Victorian parliamentary probe has heard

>>16444242 US Marines Put to the Test in Australia’s Top End - U.S. Marines are currently undertaking Embassy protection and evacuation training in Australia’s Northern Territory - Exercise Darrandarra 2022

>>16444260 US Marines take part in protection and evacuation training scenario on the Tiwi Islands - ABC News (Australia)

>>16446092 Federal MPs and public office holders to receive pay increase of 2.75 per cent from July 1, Remuneration Tribunal announces

#23 and #24 - Part 5

Australian Politics and Society - Part 5

>>16449749 Media personality, politician, actor, journalist and author Derryn Hinch announces plan to run for Victorian parliament

>>16449772 'Combat credible' US marines train on NT's Tiwi Islands as US continues focus on Indo-Pacific region - Exercise Darrandarra 2022

>>16454385 Video: Dr Kerry Sieh, scientist who predicted Boxing Day tsunami says another disaster is coming - 60 Minutes Australia

>>16454386 BHP announces plans to close NSW's largest coal mine at Mt Arthur by 2030

>>16455235 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invites Anthony Albanese to visit Kyiv when he is in Europe for the annual NATO summit later this month

>>16461326 Video: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to consider Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's invitation to visit Kyiv

>>16461375 Russia sanctions hundreds of Australians including journalists - Russia’s Foreign Ministry has sanctioned a broad list of 121 Australian media executives, mining bosses, academics, defence officials and journalists, citing the “Russophobic agenda” from the individuals named

>>16461400 New U.S. Bill Would Allow Australian Sailors to Train With the U.S. Navy - Up to two Royal Australian Navy officers per year could attend the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Officer Basic Course, then deploy on a U.S. Navy submarine - The move would help facilitate important knowledge from the United States Navy to the Royal Australian Navy as the country begins pursuing a nuclear submarine program

>>16461444 New AUKUS Caucus Bill Calls for U.S.-Australia Submarine Training Pipeline - A bipartisan group of House lawmakers unveil legislation that would help the Royal Australian Navy train its future submarine warfare officers with U.S. sailors

>>16466717 New info on AUKUS sub deal ‘shortly’: US National Security Council’s Kurt Campbell - Campbell, the NSC's coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs, said the US will launch a new effort next week to help the Pacific islands, including initiatives to build new embassies

>>16471580 Video: ADF kicks off election support to PNG - Australian Defence Force personnel deployed on Operation Kimba touch down in Papua New Guinea to provide support for the country’s upcoming national election, at the request of the PNG Government

>>16476383 Donald Trump’s former ambassador to Australia, Arthur Culvahouse Jr., acting as top legal adviser to a key witness for the January 6th commission - Greg Jacob, chief legal counsel to former Vice President Mike Pence

>>16476399 Greens leader Adam Bandt has Australian flag removed from press conference, argues the symbol is 'hurtful' to Indigenous people - Greens leader Adam Bandt has refused to stand in front of the Australian flag during a press conference, arguing it is “hurtful” to Indigenous people and that the country has "work to do" combatting racism

>>16476449 Gladys Liu eyes seat in Victorian parliament - Former federal MP Gladys Liu has confirmed her nomination for Liberal Party preselection to contest a Victorian upper house seat and claimed her ultra-marginal seat of Chisholm was “unfairly targeted” in the election

>>16476467 Swimming's world governing body, FINA, votes to restrict transgender women's participation in elite swimming competitions

>>16476493 ‘Shame on everyone’: Top Australian swimmers divided on FINA’s decision to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in elite women’s swimming

>>16476515 Swimming transgender vote: Caitlin Jenner celebrates FINA’s decision, Hannah Mouncey’s dark revelation

>>16476580 Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide hears of wait for psychiatrist appointments, hazing at Townsville base

>>16481772 Judge takes aim at Lisa Wilkinson's mention of Brittany Higgins in Logies speech as Bruce Lehrmann's rape trial delayed

>>16481793 Greens leader Adam Bandt refuses to stand with Australian flag - Adam Bandt’s refusal to stand in front of the Australian flaghas been labelled divisive and “childish virtue-signalling” by Indigenous community leaders, who say it is contrary to the spirit of reconciliation

#23 and #24 - Part 6

Australian Politics and Society - Part 6

>>16481839 Sri Lanka commits to fighting asylum-seeker boat surge as Clare O’Neil meets leaders

>>16481860 Anthony Albanese’s NATO trip must include a visit to Ukraine - Peter Jennings - theaustralian.com.au

>>16481901 Melbourne man Dennis Basic jailed for more than two years over assaults at anti-lockdown protests

>>16482015 Daniel Andrews introduces a LAW instructing schools to teach students about the 'trauma' of white colonisation and to mark the day Kevin Rudd said sorry to the Stolen Generation

>>16487741 From Rose Bay to riot squad raid: police target alleged Dark Web dealers - Two Sydney brothers, Alexander Busse an Ioan Busu, enjoyed stellar reviews for their alleged large-scale online drug business, sending up to 60 deliveries a day that police say earned them millions

>>16487757 Victoria parliament passes bill banning Nazi symbol, with offenders facing up to a year in jail

>>16493231 Judge urges Lisa Wilkinson not to make further comments about Brittany Higgins as Bruce Lehrmann's trial date delayed until October

>>16493239 Deputy Premier James Merlino among four senior Victorian ministers set to retire at the November state election

>>16493249 Peter Dutton continues attack on Greens leader Adam Bandt - Peter Dutton blasts Greens leader Adam Bandt over his decision not to stand in front of the Australian flag

>>16493257 Rear Admiral Dave Goggins to Lead American AUKUS Effort, Says Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable Carlos Del Toro - The admiral who oversees U.S. attack submarine construction has been appointed to lead the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) partnership that promises to develop a nuclear-powered attack boat for the Royal Australian Navy

>>16493269 Royal commission hears of 'ad hoc and inconsistent' suicide reporting as Australian Defence Force Chief, General Angus Campbell testifies

>>16495229 Glencore Australia riding energy crunch to record mining profitsin the midst of the Russia–Ukraine conflict

>>16499225 Four of Victoria's most senior government ministers will resign at the next election and have stepped down from their portfolios ahead of the November vote - Deputy Premier and Education Minister James Merlino, Health Minister Martin Foley, Police Minister Lisa Neville and Sports Minister Martin Pakula

>>16499242 Twitter hands over @PRGuy17 account and IP details following court order - Avi Yemini wants Telstra to provide information on 26 IP addresses as part of defamation case against anonymous pro-Labor account

>>16499269 User behind pro-Labor Twitter account PRGuy publicly reveals identity - "Jeremy Maluta"

>>16499308 PRGuy Tweet: Hi, I'm Jeremy Maluta. You may remember me from such hashtags as #IStandWithDan and #ICantBelieveItsNotAStaffer. I caught up with FriendlyJordies so I could finally meet you all face-to-face. Enjoy! #PRGuyUnmasked

>>16499339 Video: PRGuy Unmasked - Australia's most wanted man PRGuy has finally been unmaksed, but not by Avi Yemini. Is he a Dictator Dan staffer? Is he paid by the WHO? All will be revealed. - friendlyjordies

>>16499429 Q Post #1713 - The author of the post….. - The face is never the author. - Direct comms come in many different forms. - Q

>>16500413 United States Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 decision which recognised Americans' constitutional right to abortion and legalised it nationwide, handing a momentous victory to Republicans and religious conservatives who want to limit or ban the procedure

>>16503174 US braces for riots after court strikes down right to abortion - The US is bracing for mass riots after the Supreme Court reversed its historic 1973 Roe V Wade judgement, abolishing the constitutional right to abortion and returning the decision to the fifty states, at least 13 of which appear poised to drastically curtail abortion rights

>>16500413 Q Post #3405 - Reality is hard to swallow. FAKE NEWS keeps you asleep (sheep) and fixed in a pre_designed false reality (narrative). Google altering search results to 'support' the pre_designed narrative and 'prevent' (make harder) for one to learn the TRUTH? Those (w/ influence) who challenge the narrative are banned, shunned, threatened……… [Planned Parenthood is GOOD]_narrative - [China is NOT a threat]_narrative - Do you know the market price for a fetus? Correlation of market price & days old of fetus/baby? As age (days) increases so does the value? https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-to-vote-on-born-alive-bill-to-protect-infants-who-survive-a-failed-abortion - D's block 'born alive' bill? Planned Parenthood political donations? What party? Do you believe this has anything to do w/ a Woman's Right to Choose? Welcome to the Real World. Q

#23 and #24 - Part 7

Australian Politics and Society - Part 7

>>16507489Q RETURNS!

>>16507489 Q Post #4954 - Shall we play a game once more?

>>16507489 Q Post #4955 - It had to be done this way.

>>16507489 Q Post #4956 - Are you ready to serve your country again? Remember your oath.

>>16508151 Elise Thomas Tweet: Oh ffs. Ron's realising his Congressional campaign isn't grifting enough money and no one's into the aliens thing, so it's back to Ol' Faithful.

>>16509961 No Coincidences - 1700 days between Q Post #1 (Oct 28 2017) and Q Post #4954 (Jun 24 2022) o7

>>16513111 Julia Gillard Tweet: I fully endorse these words and Michelle Obama’s call to all of us to keep fighting for women’s rights.

>>16513111 Michelle Obama Tweet: My thoughts on the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

>>16513190 U.S. Embassy Australia Tweet: Statement from @SecBlinken on today’s Supreme Court decision: “…the State Department will remain fully committed to helping provide access to reproductive health services and advancing reproductive rights around the world.”

>>16513373 Mike Pompeo Tweet: JUST IN – Prayers answered. SCOTUS votes YES to life in its landmark reversal of Roe v. Wade. Those who believe every life bears the image of our Creator must now persevere in our fight to save the unborn.

>>16513373 Mike Pompeo Tweet: I applaud the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade today. This is not the end of the fight to save the lives of the unborn. We owe it to them to joyously defend this most fundamental right - the right to life.

>>16513373 Mike Pompeo Tweet: Historians will write about you, Mr. President @realDonaldTrump. Returning America to its Constitution with your Court picks matters. Well done. Americans, born and unborn, will benefit for decades.

>>16513588 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will visit France next week as his new Labor government looks to repair relations strained last year when Australia scrapped a French submarine deal

>>16513777 Arthur Sinodinos, Australia’s Ambassador to the United States Tweet: Great to join @NZAmbassadorUS, Ambassador @CarolineKennedy, & representatives of the Pacific island nations tonight to strengthen our long-standing alliance & work together to advance peace & prosperity in the Pacific region & beyond.

>>16513955 Mohamed Noor, former US police officer who fatally shot unarmed Australian woman Justine Ruszczyk to be released from prison on Monday

>>16525139 NASA to launch rocket in Australia tonight, from the Arnhem Space Centre near Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory in ‘landmark’ first

>>16534563 ‘Devastating’: Australian politicians respond to US supreme court’s decision on abortion rights

>>16534584 Consider adoption over abortion, David Littleproud says - Nationals leader says while he doesn’t want to see Australia import “unhealthy” US talking points, he wants people to consider adoption

>>16534731 AUKUS nuclear powered submarines possible for Australia by 2030: US defence expert Bryan Clark, former adviser to the head of US naval operations

>>16534757 AUKUS pact our ticket to victory: Senator James Paterson - Senator James Paterson says that the Albanese government must work with the US and Britain to fast-track Australia’s access to technological advancements for cyber warfare

#23 and #24 - Part 8

Australian Politics and Society - Part 8

>>16534883 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin 22: Australian Army Capt. Jarrod Johnson awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for his meritorious service while working alongside Marines with Marine Rotational Force-Darwin 21

>>16534911 Video: NASA successfully launches its first rocket from newly created Arnhem Space Centre, Northern Territory

>>16535021 Abdallah family invited to speak in Rome two years after losing three of their children to a drunk and drugged driver in Oatlands crash

>>16535025 Video: Sydney's Abdallah family has been given a standing ovation at The Vatican after sharing their story of forgiveness following the horrific deaths of their children - 7NEWS Australia - Paul VI Audience Hall, Vatican City

>>16535029 Q Post #191 - popes snake pit.jpg - "anon meme makers please make some memes of the popes audience hall looking like a snake pit. That sum sik shit"

>>16535029 Q Post #1002 - If_Satanists_Took_Over_the_Vatican.png - Symbolism will be their downfall. MONEY. POWER. INFLUENCE. The BITE that has no CURE - NSA. Q

>>16535029 Q Post #4481 - https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1273676937089749000 - 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. Only when people see the truth [for themselves] will people understand the true nature of their deception. Difficult truths. Q

>>16543746 Abandoning God: Christianity plummets as ‘non-religious’ surges in 2021 census - Australia has become strikingly more godless over the past decade, with the latest census data showing the proportion of self-identified Christians dropping below 50 per cent for the first time and a soaring number of people describing themselves as “non-religious”

>>16543804 Defence Minister Richard Marles laments ‘drift’ over submarines and frigates as defence chiefs’ terms are extended

>>16543818 Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor who fatally shot unarmed Australian woman Justine Ruszczyk released from jail

>>16554238 Defence Minister Richard Marles to reveal AUKUS nuclear submarine plan by March 2023

>>16554256 Anthony Albanese considers reopening Australian embassy in Kyiv, joins world leaders in condemning Russia’s missile strike on a Ukrainian shopping centre that killed at least 18 people

>>16554328 Albanese ‘is not Scott Morrison and that’s a big advantage’, Malcolm Turnbull tells French media - Former Australian PM calls successor’s conduct over submarine deal ‘disgraceful’ ahead of Anthony Albanese’s meeting with Macron

>>16554395 Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicides hears medical officers on the ground with troops did not “necessarily” have psychological training

>>16564049 Ministry of Defence of Ukraine Tweet: Video: Australia has become a major non-NATO supplier of military aid to Ukraine. (Australia) is so far from (Ukraine), yet is one our closest partners! Our nations share a love of freedom and respect for the environment. Your weapons will help us with pest control of our fields. Thank you!

>>16564049 Q Post #4822 - WHAT HAPPENS IF BIDEN BECAME POTUS KNOWING HE [THROUGH HUNTER + 1] TOOK MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF BRIBES TO CHANGE [LOOK THE OTHER WAY] US POLICY TOWARDS UKRAINE [IN FAVOR OF UKRAINE]? WOULD UKRAINE OWN AND CONTROL THE WHITE HOUSE? Q

>>16564302 Arthur Sinodinos, Australia’s Ambassador to the United States Tweet: It was a great pleasure for Elizabeth & I to host dinner for Ambassador Caroline Kennedy ahead of her posting as (United States) Ambassador to Australia. We wish her all the best & know she will make an outstanding contribution to our ever stronger bilateral relationship

>>16579939 Anthony Albanese not to blame for subs rift, Emmanuel Macron says, as leaders reset ties

>>16579953 Former prime minister Kevin Rudd to help investigate ways to deter future aggression against Ukraine - Group on International Security Guarantees for Ukraine

>>16579980 Andriy Yermak and Anders Fogh Rasmussen held the first meeting of the Group on International Security Guarantees for Ukraine - PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE, VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY Official website - 1 July 2022

#23 and #24 - Part 9

Australian Politics and Society - Part 9

>>16580124 Thousands across Australia demonstrate in solidarity with US after abortion access ruling

>>16580227 Australia and the United States: an Allied Defense Experience to Recognize this 4th of July

>>16580287 Video: Marine Rotational Force-Darwin 22: Darrandarra - U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force-Darwin (MRF-D) 22 and Australian Army soldiers participate in exercise Darrandarra at Mount Bundey Training Area and the Tiwi Islands, NT, Australia, during June, 2022

>>16580333 Rocky’s US ‘invasion’ - More than 70,000 American military personnel assigned to several US Army divisions and their numerous support units would call the Rockhampton region their temporary home from 1942 to 1944 as they trained, left for battle, and then returned to Rockhampton to recuperate and refit

>>16580345 Independence Day service to be held this Sunday at St Christopher’s Chapel - a small, rustic chapel located in Nerimbera, Queensland, built by the visiting US Army in 1943 to provide respite to recuperating soldiers with a place of solace, reflection, and worship

>>16586799 Victorian Labor MP and former minister Jane Garrett dies from cancer, aged 49

>>16587000 ABC News Tweet: #ANALYSIS: The Census has a message: God is dead. But what comes next?

>>16587007 The census shows Australians are becoming less religious but why have we chosen to live without God? - Stan Grant - abc.net.au

>>16587030 Q Post #4429 - Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. … Have faith in Humanity. Have faith in Yourself. Have faith in God. The Great Awakening. Q

>>16587030 PDF: Archbishop Carlo Viganò - Open Letter President Donald Trump - June 7, 2020 - "In recent months we have been witnessing the formation of two opposing sides that I would call Biblical: the children of light and the children of darkness…"

>>16594041 Three quarters of US doesn’t want Joe Biden to stand for re-election in 2024

>>16594051 Anthony Albanese visits war-torn towns of Ukraine, surveying bombed airport and buildings

>>16594069 Video: Inside Anthony Albanese’s top secret visit to Ukraine - 9 News Australia

>>16594078 Video: Anthony Albanese visits Ukraine, pledging $100m in military aid - ABC News (Australia)

>>16594208 Foreign Minister Penny Wong to tell International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi Australia still against nuclear weapons despite AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines deal

>>16594377 Marine Rotational Force - Darwin Facebook Post: MRF-D gets to celebrate our nation’s birthday early here in Darwin. It is important to remember our freedom is not possible without our allies and partners around the world, so today we want to highlight some of the many Americans and Australians who served alongside each other over the years. For over a century, Americans and Australians defended liberty on one another’s flanks, and we look forward to doing so for years to come.

#23 and #24 - Part 10

Australian Politics and Society - Part 10

>>16595698 AUSTRALIA’S HIGHEST RANKING SATANIST VISITS UKRAINE - "…Albanese like ALL his predecessors are good Freemason, SRA practising Satanists."

>>16655612 Russia, Australia relations at lowest in decades: Russian ambassador Alexey Pavlovsky

>>16655640 Anthony Albanese says he will treat Russian President Vladimir Putin with the “contempt he deserves” if he sees him at the G20 summit

>>16655648 Video: Australia warned to stop sending weapons to Ukraine - Sky News Australia

>>16655702 Jacinda Ardern in Australia: PM describes 'change in the relationship' as she arrives in Sydney

>>16655717 Ardern’s ‘catch-up’ with Andrews brings vow to tap Victorian infrastructure expertise

>>16655769 Video: Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand's no-nuclear line on AUKUS subs met with 'understanding and appreciation' in Australia

>>16655881 AUKUS submarines: Marles commits to local jobs, won’t rule out ready-made submarine stopgap

>>16656001 Mark Dreyfus orders Commonwealth to drop Bernard Collaery East Timor spying charges

>>16670597 Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe killed by gunman in campaign attack - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the attack was “shocking news”

>>16670654 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Tweet:Shocked and saddened by the tragic death of former Japanese PM Abe Shinzo. He was a great friend and ally to Australia. Deepest sympathies to his family and the people of Japan. We mourn with you.

>>16670654 STATEMENT - The Hon Anthony Albanese MP, Prime Minister of Australia - The tragic death of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo is devastating news. On behalf of the Australian Government and people, we offer our deepest sympathies and condolences to Mrs Abe and to Mr Abe’s family and friends, and to the people of Japan.

>>16670684 Opposition Leader Peter Dutton Tweet: Our thoughts and prayers are with our great friend Abe and his family. He is a man of incredible decency and a great ally to Australia. A shocking act of violence which has no place in any society.

>>16670684 Japanese Ambassador YAMAGAMI Shingo Tweet: We are all shocked to hear the news. Such an outrageous act should never be condoned. We are following the situation with great concern and we are praying for him.

>>16670751 Tony Abbott Tweets With the death of Shinzo Abe in an act of shocking violence, Australia has lost a great friend and Japan has lost its most significant post-war leader….This is a dreadful loss for Japan, for Australia and for a world where democracies stand strong and together

>>16670835 Scott Morrison Facebook Post: The death of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is a truly devastating tragedy….He combined a gentle nature with a giant political stature. He will be terribly missed. Vale my dear friend Shinzo. Love to Akie Abe and the people of Japan. We share in your awful grief.

#23 and #24 - Part 11

Cardinal George Pell and Vatican Financial Scandal Allegations

>>16580173 Vatican Cardinals Laud US Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision - Cardinals Burke, Pell, Kasper, Müller and Czerny welcome last week’s landmark decision and discuss its implications

#23 and #24 - Part 12

Malka Leifer Extradition and Prosecution

>>16384807 Israeli legislator Yaakov Litzman leaves Knesset after assisting accused Australian pedophile - Ultra-Orthodox former minister indicted for breach of trust and obstruction of justice in Leifer affair when he offered promotions to psychiatrists in exchange for their evaluation that she is unfit to stand trial

>>16424977 Haredi Lawmaker Convicted Under Plea Deal Over Malka Leifer Affair - Former Health Minister Yaakov Litzman pleaded guilty to breach of trust in the sex abuse case of Malka Leifer, but is expected to remain politically active

#23 and #24 - Part 13

Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry and Ben Roberts-Smith Defamation Trial

>>16349807 Missing witness and a change of government: the latest delays in Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation case - Trial held up due to Covid and fall of Kabul now waits for evidence release by new attorney general and reappearance of Person 27

>>16366989 SAS soldier recalled after puzzling evidence in Ben Roberts-Smith case - A witness codenamed Person 27 being recalled to testify in closed court

>>16379348 Senior SAS officer backs Ben Roberts-Smith on a key piece of evidence

>>16384791 Ex-soldier ‘couldn’t say’ whether Roberts-Smith was complicit in murders, court told

>>16403584 Inside SAS raid at centre of Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation trial: photos - Never-before-seen photos of the moments after a bomb fell on a Taliban compound and a soldier allegedly pilfered a leg from a dead insurgent can now be revealed

>>16434662 Redacted reports, letters to The Hague: secretive investigations coinciding with BRS’ defamation lawsuit - With all eyes on Roberts-Smith’s defamation case, it’s easy to forget a team of war crime investigators are picking through allegations against the SAS and writing letters to The Hague with criminal prosecutions in mind

>>16543835 Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide hears of problems in Defence Abuse Response Taskforce (DART) - Former chair Leonard Roberts-Smith (father of Ben Roberts-Smith) gave his frank assessment of the body as he gave evidence

>>16543859 If we fail to prosecute war crimes, the law is a ‘dead letter,’ says inquiry judge NSW Court of Appeal Justice Paul Brereton -

>>16586834 Give time for ‘shameful episode’ to be investigated - A probe into alleged war crimes by Australian troops in Afghanistan must be given time to run its course, Defence Minister Richard Marles says

#23 and #24 - Part 14

Julian Assange Indictment and Extradition - Part 1

>>16349835 Julian Assange's family says federal election result brings renewed hope for WikiLeaks founder's release and return to Australia

>>16379305 Pressure on Anthony Albanese to stick to his word on Julian Assange

>>16384784 Labor backbenchers urge Albanese to ‘stay true to his values’ on Julian Assange trial

>>16395713 Spanish Court Demands Pompeo Testify on Apparent Plot to Kill Assange - Donald Trump’s former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been ordered to appear in a Spanish court to explain a possible U.S. government plot to kidnap and assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

>>16413438 Julian Assange's wife Stella Moris reveals how they raise children together while he is in jail waiting an extradition decision - Stella Moris - abc.net.au

>>16460849 UK orders extradition of Julian Assange to United States - Julian Assange will be extradited to the United States to face spying charges over the WikiLeaks publication of classified documents more than a decade ago

>>16465020 Mike Pompeo Tweet: Good on UK Home Secretary @pritipatel for approving extradition of indicted hacker Julian Assange, whose goal was always to imperil American security through his non-state hostile “intelligence” service. One step closer to protecting the young men and women who protect America.

>>16466287 ‘Assassination bid’ part of Assange appeal - Claims made in a media report of CIA plans to assassinate Julian Assange will feature in an appeal against his extradition to the US, his brother says.

>>16466361 Andrew Wilkie urges government to intervene after UK approves Julian Assange's extradition - Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has called for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to lobby the leaders of the US and the UK to stop the extradition of Julian Assange.

>>16466361 Statement: Senator Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs - UK decision to extradite Julian Assange

>>16466417 Video: Julian Assange's wife, Stella Assange, appeals to Anthony Albanese over extradition - SBS News

>>16466464 Video: FPA Press Conference: Priti Patel discloses decision for Assange's extradition - Join Stella Moris & Tim Dawson live at the Free Press Association press conference - Dont Extradite Assange Campaign

>>16466517 ‘Crushed’ Julian Assange on medication after stroke - Gabriel Shipton reveals his brother has lingering effects of a mini-stroke suffered during the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition fight, as the family finds hope in US congress

>>16471693 Australia won’t conduct ‘megaphone diplomacy’ on Julian Assange amid calls to intervene - Labor government urged to do more to stop Australian WikiLeaks co-founder’s extradition to US from UK

>>16471705 'Resolve this with appropriate urgency': New independent ACT Senator David Pocock steps into Julian Assange case

>>16471718 Federal government lobbying US counterparts behind the scenes to secure the freedom of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

>>16476606 ‘Strong action’ needed to free Julian Assange: Independent MP Andrew Wilkie - Anthony Albanese has been urged to take “strong action” rather than “whispers and secret handshakes” to free Julian Assange

>>16476675 OPINION - If Albanese asks for Assange’s freedom, Biden has every reason to agree - Bob Carr, longest-serving premier of NSW and former foreign minister of Australia - smh.com.au

>>16476698 (2019) Fairweather foe: Bob Carr changes tack on Assange - Bob Carr now lauds Julian Assange for "delivering on our right to know". But when he could do something about Assange's treatment, he had a very different view - Bernard Kean - crikey.com.au

>>16476757 (2013) Bob Carr: Washington's man in Australia - Bob Carr may have been Foreign Affairs Minister for only 12 months, but he started talking to United States diplomats about internal Labor politics nearly 40 years ago - Philip Dorling - theage.com.au

#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

#23 and #24 - Part 16

Australia / China Tensions - Part 1

>>16343646 Uyghurs in Australia scour through thousands of leaked photos from Xinjiang Police Files searching for loved ones

>>16343649 The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps - John Sudworth, May 2022 - bbc.co.uk

>>16343649 The Xinjiang Police Files - Unprecedented evidence from internal police networks in China’s Xinjiang region proves prison-like nature of re-education camps, shows top Chinese leaders’ direct involvement in the mass internment campaign

>>16343649 PDF: The Xinjiang Police Files: Re-Education Camp Security and Political Paranoia in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

>>16343656 Video: Leaked "Xinjiang Police Files" reveal signs of distress among Uyghurs - ABC News (Australia)

>>16343661 Xi Jinping defends China’s human rights record to visiting UN commissioner - Leader warns against using issue as ‘excuse to interfere in internal affairs of other countries’ as Michelle Bachelet goes to Xinjiang

>>16343917 Video: Penny Wong visits Fiji, saying Australia neglected Pacific on climate change, as China's Wang Yi visits Solomon Islands

>>16343938 Deals sought as China casts Pacific net - Beijing is seeking a deal with 10 Pacific countries offering policing, security, cyber support and a new China-Pacific free-trade agreement, dramatically escalating Xi Jinping’s grab for regional influence

>>16343959 China to provide South Pacific countries ‘what US, Australia failed to offer’ - Yang Sheng and Liu Caiyu - globaltimes.cn

>>16343976 GT Voice: To break ice in China trade, the ball is in Australia's court - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16344026 China seeks region-wide Pacific Islands agreement, Federated States of Micronesia decry draft as threatening 'regional stability'

>>16349873 Video: Wong takes on Beijing over climate, debt and influence - Foreign Minister Penny Wong has warned Pacific leaders a region-wide security and trade deal with Beijing could sacrifice their independence, lead to unsustainable debt levels and endanger the region

>>16349907 China eyes next Pacific target, says opposition ‘doomed to fail’ - China says attempts by the United States and Australia to sabotage its security plans for the Pacific are doomed to fail, as Beijing’s top diplomat Wang Yi arrived in Kiribati to forge ahead with plans for Chinese-built infrastructure in the island nation

>>16349922 Video: Chinese foreign minister starts Pacific tour, offering security and free trade pacts - South China Morning Post

>>16350025 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China - Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Damukana Sogavare Meets with Wang Yi - 2022-05-27

>>16350041 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China - Wang Yi Expounds on Three Principles of China-Solomon Islands Security Cooperation - 2022-05-26

>>16350107 China-Australia relations: ex-Australian PM Kevin Rudd tells West to offer alternatives to Pacific islands, not ‘lectures’ about their ties with Beijing

>>16350130 Australian scholars call for improvement of China-Australia relationship - Xinhua - english.news.cn

>>16350134 David Goodman and others – An Open letter to the New Government on relations with China - Pearls and Irritations, johnmenadue.com

>>16356414 Video: China to consider funding new police training centre in Solomon Islands, will also help Samoa build a fingerprint lab to go with the construction of an already announced new police academy

#23 and #24 - Part 17

Australia / China Tensions - Part 2

>>16356449 China inks deal on economic technologies with Samoa during FM’s trip, welcomes partnership with Australia, NZ to help PICs - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16356468 China’s FM visits the remote Pacific nation of Kiribati, where the future of a vast fishing ground is at stake.

>>16356495 Wang’s visit to Kiribati shows devt opportunities, injects firmness to one-China principle - Zhang Hui and Hu Yuwei - globaltimes.cn

>>16356551 New Australian foreign minister Penny Wong’s rhetoric of leaving regional security to Pacific region shows hypocrisy, double standard - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16356601 Why China’s Pacific sweet talk will fail - Beijing’s plan to corral ten Pacific Island countries into an exclusive grouping is a daring attempt to take control of the region - Peter Jennings - theaustralian.com.au

>>16361632 Embassy of The People's Republic of China in The Republic of Fiji - Statement by the Spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in Fiji on the China-Pacific Island Countries Cooperation

>>16361649 More than 100 Australian Defence Force personnel will travel to Papua New Guinea in coming months to help the country conduct its national election, combat cyber threats and conduct joint exercises amid a growing tussle for influence between Australia and China in the region

>>16366827 We’re turning to China because you neglect us, says East Timor president Jose Ramos-Horta

>>16366850 Fijian vow to hold the line on China influence - China’s aggressive bid to exert power in the South Pacific will meet strong resistance if Fiji’s former prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka returns to office this year, with the two-time coup leader vowing to side with Australia as Beijing steps up its battle for dominance in the region

>>16366881 China, Pacific islands unable to reach consensus on security pact - China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged the Pacific region not to be "too anxious" about his country's aims after a meeting in Fiji with his counterparts from 10 island nations was unable to agree to a sweeping trade and security communique

>>16366904 China shelves plan to sign a regional agreement with Pacific island nations - Foreign Minister Wang Yi says China will instead release a position paper following a meeting with Pacific foreign ministers in Fiji on Monday

>>16372869 ‘I won’t back down on Beijing’ - Peter Dutton says he won’t back away from his pre-election warnings about the dangers posed by China, declaring the country under President Xi Jinping’s leadership “is the biggest issue our country will face in our lifetimes”

>>16372884 China tries to calm Pacific fears after security snub - Pacific Islands leaders have rebuffed Beijing’s sweeping security and trade pact while calling on China – the world’s biggest polluter – to do more to address its “greatest threat”: climate change

>>16372900 Timing of Wang Yi visit to PNG ‘inappropriate’, say Former PNG prime minister Peter O’Neill and Opposition Leader Belden Namah - Two of Papua New Guinea’s most senior politicians have blasted the timing of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to the country during its national election period, and warned Prime Minister James Marape not to sign any agreements while parliament was dissolved

>>16372930 Fiji’s ‘Rambo’ will take the fight to Xi Jinping - China’s aggressive bid for influence in the Pacific will depend in part on the outcome of an epic struggle for power between Fiji’s rival strongmen: Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Rabuka, instigator of two military coups in 1987, and later democratically elected as prime minister from 1992 to 1999

>>16372962 China, Pacific Island nations expand cooperation at second FMs’ meeting covering poverty alleviation, climate change and agriculture - China respects local countries in signing cooperation, but could be sabotaged by few politicians used as US pawns - Zhang Hui, Liu Caiyu and Shan Jie - globaltimes.cn

>>16372987 China's foreign minister visits Tonga after Pacific islands delay regional pact

>>16373021 China, Tonga are examples of ‘building a community with shared future’, long-term Chinese investments dwarf US, Australia - Long-term Chinese investments dwarf US, Australia - Li Xuanmin - globaltimes.cn

>>16373148 Crown Resorts hit with $80m fine by Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission over use of China Union Pay cards to illegally transfer funds from China

>>16373172 Star Entertainment Group is not suitable to hold a casino licence, say lawyers for NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority inquiry following allegations of money laundering, links to organised crime and fraud at the Pyrmont casino

#23 and #24 - Part 18

Australia / China Tensions - Part 3

>>16379259 China wanted a swift diplomatic victory in the Pacific. But the region's leaders won't be rushed

>>16379269 US, Western media deliberately blind to China-Pacific Islands cooperation - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16379287 GT Voice: Western media in no position to judge FM’s South Pacific trip - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16379294 China warns Anthony Albanese not to repeat the “mistakes” of his predecessor Scott Morrison, saying it will come “at the cost of the whole region”

>>16379302 Chance for Canberra to recalibrate stance - Li Yang - chinadaily.com.cn

>>16384621 Penny Wong announces eight-year partnership with Samoa, donation of new patrol boat

>>16384628 Tonga discusses debt with China, Australia's foreign minister Penny Wong to visit

>>16384647 China threatens to put NZ in freezer with Australia - Beijing has threatened New Zealand’s trade access to its huge market and denounced Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for joining an American “disinformation” campaign to “discredit China

>>16384666 Transcript - Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s Regular Press Conference on June 1, 2022

>>16384690 NZ shakes off China attack over US talks - New Zealand leaders have shrugged off a missive from China in the wake of a joint US-New Zealand statement on engagement in the Pacific

>>16384706 Video: Cheng Lei's partner Nick Coyle breaks his silence about her detention in China, says authorities have cut her access to consular officials and tightened her food supply in jail - abc.net.au

>>16384713 Video: 'Totally unacceptable': Cheng Lei's partner speaks out for first time - Sky News Australia

>>16384728 Ongoing detention of Australian citizens Cheng Lei and Yang Hengjun “should not be a problem” affecting the overall state of bilateral ties between Canberra and Beijing, China’s top envoy to Australia, Xiao Qian says

>>16384745 ‘Political relationship’ needs to mend before China drops trade bans: China’s ambassador to Australia, Xiao Qian

>>16390422 Papua New Guinea PM warns opposition not to 'play politics' with China visit

>>16390437 Beijing targets East Timor, four deals set to be signed - East Timor will sign agreements with Beijing covering air services, healthcare, economic and technical cooperation, ending Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s tour of the region with a swag of new deals

>>16390450 Northern Territory primary school quietly terminates Chinese-funded Confucius Institute language and culture program, but teachers from the Confucius Institute continue to teach in classrooms across Darwin

>>16390500 Dear academics: we didn’t walk away from China - Those in this country who still have the strange idea that we are the ones who have caused the problem in relations with Beijing should pull their heads in - Paul Monk - theaustralian.com.au

>>16390536 Heinous one-man electoral chaos a wake-up call for police - Cheng Fan was running Australia’s largest electoral interference operation from a small room of his brick home in Blacktown, NSW - sent 23 million toxic, racist and homophobic emails, trying to distort the outcome of elections in three federal seats

>>16395527 Video: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says resetting China–Australia relations requires 'concrete action'

#23 and #24 - Part 19

Australia / China Tensions - Part 4

>>16395534 Wang Yi proposes 3 points for developing ties with S.Pacific countries, urges Australia to stop viewing China as an adversary - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16395548 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China - Wang Yi: To improve China-Australia relations, there is no “auto-pilot” mode, and a reset requires concrete actions

>>16395571 Chinese Consulate General in Sydney Tweet: Video: Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi: to improve China-#Australia relations, there is no “auto-pilot” mode. A reset requires concrete actions. This meets the aspirations of people in both countries and the trend of our time.

>>16395586 Video: President Jose Ramos-Horta says East Timor will not sign a security deal with Beijing - East Timor will sign agreements with Beijing involving air services, healthcare, economic and technical cooperation but it will not sign a security pact

>>16395807 Video: Archive: Chinese troops fire on protesters in Tiananmen Square - 4 June 1989 - BBC News

>>16395812 Video: Tiananmen Square Protests 1989: Chinese Soldiers Open Fire on Civilians

>>16395827 Video: Man vs. tank in Tiananmen square (1989) - CNN

>>16395827 Tiananmen Square Massacre - The story behind the iconic 'Tank Man' photo - cnn.com

>>16395846 Video: How NBC Covered Tiananmen Square In 1989 - NBC News

>>16395851 Video: Tiananmen Square: Watch The 1989 Report On The Crackdown - Sky News

>>16395860 Video: Diplomatic cable reveals what Bob Hawke thought he knew about Tiananmen massacre - ABC News (Australia)

>>16399453 ‘Escalation of overt aggression’: Chinese fighter jet fired flares at Australian RAAF plane

>>16399485 Federal government says it will not be deterred by Chinese 'intimidation' tactics in South China Sea

>>16399485 Australian Government Department of Defence - Chinese interception of P-8A Poseidon on 26 May 2022

>>16399510 Wang Yi meets Timor-Leste President on last day of Pacific Island countries visit - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16399530 Anthony Albanese talks with Timor-Leste leadership as he flies to Indonesia for official visit - PM flags push for deeper ties with neighbours while ‘recognising the challenges’ of China’s involvement in region

>>16399572 Mike Pompeo Tweet: 33 years ago, the Chinese Communist Party massacred civilians at Tiananmen Square and crushed any hope for a freer society inside China. Today we mourn those who were killed, and we honor their memory by bringing to light the CCP’s crimes in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and beyond.

>>16403469 Video: Anthony Albanese protests China’s fighter plane intercept - Anthony Albanese said the “dangerous manoeuvre” threatened the P-8 aircraft and the lives of its crew, and his government had formally expressed its “concerns” to Beijing

>>16403478 Chinese fighter’s action is full of hypocrisy - A Chinese J-16 fighter’s interception of an Australian surveillance plane was aggressive, gratuitous and illegal - Greg Sheridan - theaustralian.com.au

>>16403484 China lashes out at Australia over ‘dangerous’ fighter jet claim - Beijing has lashed out at claims of a dangerous interaction between a Chinese jet and RAAF plane, accusing Australia of omitting “crucial details”

#23 and #24 - Part 20

Australia / China Tensions - Part 5

>>16403494 Hyping PLA’s ‘dangerous intercept,’ who is Australia performing to again? Global Times editorial - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16403499 PLA aircraft deal with Canadian, Australian provocative close-in recon in East and South China Seas - Western countries ‘complain first while being the ones who are guilty in the first place’ - Guo Yuandan, Liu Xuanzun and Hu Jinyang - globaltimes.cn

>>16403509 Australia’s military provocations on China, accusations of PLA’s legitimate countermeasures reflect own anxiety - Liu Xuanzun - globaltimes.cn

>>16403524 Inside Andrews Government’s weekly meetings with China - The Andrews Government asked for Beijing’s input on PPE supplies and Victoria’s aged care system, sparking accusations of “sneaky deals”

>>16408416 China warns Australia to stop 'dangerous' actions over the South China Sea after RAAF interception

>>16408431 Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China - Chinese defense spokesperson, Senior Colonel Tan Kefei, responds to Australia's hype of China-Australia military aircraft encounter

>>16408480 Video: Man who struck police horse and threw traffic bollard at officer during Melbourne lockdown protests pleads guilty

>>16413268 Port of Darwin lease to be reviewed: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed a review of the lease of the Port of Darwin will be undertaken, raising fresh questions over the future of the 99-year lease by Chinese-owned company Landbridge

>>16418546 China’s military aggression is risking disaster - Peter Jennings - theaustralian.com.au

>>16418573 Police probe into Chinese money laundering syndicate headquartered in Australia - Australian law enforcement agencies, in partnership with officials from the United States and Canada, have also compiled intelligence that suggests Chinese companies and brokers are supplying the vast majority of precursor chemicals used to make illicit drugs on the Australian market

>>16418585 China-Solomon Islands security deal could lead to a 'difficult' situation for Australian troops in Honiara, says James Batley, former Australian high commissioner to the Solomon Islands

>>16418588 Video: The Solomon Islands, China and their ambitions for the Pacific - ABC News (Australia)

>>16424915 The illegal transfer of nuclear weapons materials involved in AUKUS cannot be denied: Chinese envoy - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16424947 Trade Minister Don Farrell’s bid to end China row - Trade Minister Don Farrell will issue an invitation to meet with his Chinese counterpart to try to break the damaging two-year trade war against Australian ­exporters, amid heightened geopolitical tensions between Beijing and Canberra

>>16430029 Australian defence minister warns China risks sparking arms race - Richard Marles outlines vision of economic cooperation and military deterrence but warns lack of transparency can upset balance

>>16430047 Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles castigates China for its military build-up in the South China Sea in his first major speech on the global stage, accusing Beijing of readying to challenge by force the sovereignty of neighbouring countries

>>16430064 China's 'dangerous' behaviour towards RAAF planes should 'worry us all', United States Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin says

>>16430076 China slams theory coronavirus originated from Chinese lab leak - China has slammed the controversial ‘lab leak’ theory as the World Health Organisation calls for a deeper probe into the pandemic’s origin

>>16430086 Transcript - Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s Regular Press Conference on June 10, 2022

>>16430130 Chinese Consulate General in Sydney Tweet: Video: Ties between the Australian and Chinese people are very strong, which is good for the improvement of the two countries' relationship, former Australian ambassador to China Geoff Raby has said.

#23 and #24 - Part 21

Australia / China Tensions - Part 5

>>16430199 Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Commonwealth of Australia - Ambassador Xiao Qian meets with Premier of Western Australia McGowan, 2022-06-11

>>16430199 Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Commonwealth of Australia - Ambassador Xiao Qian Meets with Bishop, Chancellor and Former Foreign Minister of ANU, 2022-06-11

>>16434639 Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles meets with China's Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe in diplomatic breakthrough

>>16434646 Australia's Defence Minister meets Chinese counterpart, marking the end of a two-year diplomatic freeze

>>16439000 Richard Marles and Wei Fenghe take first step to Beijing thaw - Beijing has ended its diplomatic deep-freeze of Australia after a breakthrough meeting in Singapore between Richard Marles and his Chinese counterpart, Wei Fenghe

>>16439068 Barnaby Joyce urges caution after Richard Marles breaks silence with Beijing - “They are a threat if they want to set up military bases near us and put lasers on to our Royal Australian Air Force patrols”

>>16439082 Video: China Australia relations on the mend after new meeting - 7NEWS Australia

>>16439598 AUKUS settlement reveals Australia being unrealistic about China ties - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16439627 Australia urged to show real actions to reset China ties amid confusing messages at key security meeting - Deng Xiaoci and Wan Hengyi

>>16439658 China’s ambassador to Australia, Xiao Qian, says relations between the two countries are at a “new juncture” with the election of a new Australian government and the first minister-to-minister talks in more than two years

>>16439658 Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Commonwealth of Australia - Review the Past, Look into the Future, Open a New Chapter for China-Australia Relationship — Speech at the National Conference of Australia China Friendship Society by Ambassador XIAO Qian, 2022-06-11

>>16443924 Marles vows to continue flying over the South China Sea and the disputed Paracel Islands, increase military exercises with Japan

>>16443944 Australia-China relations: Albanese says Beijing must lift sanctions on exports to reset ties

>>16443970 Chinese FM confirms receiving of appreciation letter from Aussie Prime Minister - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16443970 Transcript - Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin’s Regular Press Conference on June 13, 2022

>>16444020 Chinese Consulate General in Sydney Tweet: Video: Chinese FM spokesperson: It is hoped that the Australian side can look at China and China-Australia relations in a sensible and positive way, work with China in the same direction in the spirit of mutual respect and seek common ground while putting aside differences.

>>16444036 Albanese government needs to open up new path, resetting relations with China - Wen Sheng - globaltimes.cn

>>16444065 We needed China deal to protect ‘domestic security’, says key Solomon Islands official Collin Beck, permanent secretary of foreign affairs

>>16446109 Former Sydney councillors received 'bags of cash' in bribes from Chinese developer, ICAC told - Georges River councillors Vincenzo Badalati and Constantine Hindi

>>16449726 Penny Wong to visit New Zealand, Solomon Islands amid concern over climate change, China security pact

#23 and #24 - Part 22

Australia / China Tensions - Part 6

>>16449737 GT Voice: What’s the right way for Australia to warm up trade with China? - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16455152 Labor must cancel Darwin port lease as part of China strategy - Peter Jennings - theaustralian.com.au

>>16455215 Nick Coyle, executive director of the China-Australia Chamber of Commerce and partner of detained Australian journalist Cheng Lei, has urged the Labor government to put her case at the centre of diplomatic negotiations with China

>>16461204 Solomon Islands seeks to reassure Australia on China security deal, Penny Wong announces delivery of approximately 200,000 paediatric COVID-19 vaccines

>>16461220 Aussie FM's frequent visit to S.Pacific nations 'charm offensive' to exclude China from region - Zhao Yusha - globaltimes.cn

>>16461243 Difficulties can be overcome by Canada, Australia to ease China ties: Global Times editorial - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16461309 Exclusive: Peak body of Aussie elite universities urges Canberra to refresh China policy, offer more incentives to attract Chinese students - Vicki Thomson, chief executive of the Group of Eight (Go8), which represents elite Australian universities, expressed her strong wish to boost connections with China in an exclusive interview with the Global Times - Xu Keyue and Zhang Changyue - globaltimes.cn

>>16461315 Australia China Business Council - Speech: Recover, Refresh Connect - Vicki Thomson, Chief Executive, Group of Eight - Australia-China Education Symposium, Dockside Darling Harbour, 10 June 2022

>>16466717 New info on AUKUS sub deal ‘shortly’: US National Security Council’s Kurt Campbell - Campbell, the NSC's coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs, said the US will launch a new effort next week to help the Pacific islands, including initiatives to build new embassies

>>16466738 US, Australia’s recent moves in South Pacific eye new small clique to contain China - Leng Shumei - globaltimes.cn

>>16466768 The Five Eyes are now fixed on China again - Xin Ping - globaltimes.cn

>>16466818 Maoist China under Xi can never be our friend - "Geopolitically, economically and in terms of immigration and multiculturalism, China is the biggest challenge we face as a country. The biggest mistake we keep being invited to make is to think that China is well governed and just another country. It is vital that there be a deeper and more serious understanding of how it is actually governed…Abolishing the rule of law…Erasing events from history and public memory…Brutal executions…Its routine behaviour towards its own people is ruthless…This is the regime in Beijing that has imposed extraordinary economic sanctions on Australia and is seeking to extend its influence and military presence across the South Pacific. This is the regime that its Australian friends urge us to mollify, in the interests of better relations, claiming that the recent deterioration in those relations has been the consequence of tactless rhetoric by the Coalition government. This is not a regime which any of us should want to see flourish, or expand its influence." - Paul Monk - theaustralian.com.au

>>16466903 Q Post #4021 - https://twitter.com/johnrobertsFox/status/1255972553950220288 - Think SIGINT - Think CIA - Think Double agents - China thought they eliminated all in-country assets. - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html - Some things are better left untold [cov]. Public truths of some events force wars. WWIII prevent.

>>16466903 Q Post #4813 - What if our MIL remained financially starved? What if [F]oreign backers continued to control America's policies? What if our borders remained open? What if China was given the keys?

>>16466903 Q Post #4821 - WHAT HAPPENS IF BIDEN BECAME POTUS KNOWING HE [THROUGH HUNTER + 2] TOOK MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF BRIBES TO CHANGE [LOOK THE OTHER WAY] US POLICY TOWARDS CHINA [IN FAVOR OF CHINA]? WOULD CHINA OWN AND CONTROL THE WHITE HOUSE?

>>16471636 Beijing’s third aircraft carrier sets out to rule the waves - China has launched the "Fujian", its third and most advanced aircraft carrier as it aims to rival the US Navy as the dominant power on the seas

>>16471670 Exclusive: Five Eyes alliance fabricating evidence, building rumors of China infiltration: source - GT Staff reporters - globaltimes.cn

>>16476776 Vanuatu joins China’s islands cheer squad against foreign ‘interference’ over human rights

>>16476813 Five Eyes ‘dim-sighted’ when hyping ‘China infiltration’: Global Times editorial - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16487812 Foreign Ministry demands explanation following report of Five Eyes building China infiltration rumors - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16487815 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin’s Regular Press Conference on June 21, 2022

#23 and #24 - Part 23

Australia / China Tensions - Part 7

>>16487877 Increase in number of Chinese students depends on Australia - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16487877 Australian Universities Alliance calls on Chinese students to return to school as soon as possible, sparking controversy over economic interests and inherent values - Gao Feng - voachinese.com

>>16487890 Russian victory over Ukraine would embolden China: Ukrainian ambassador to Australia Vasyl Myroshnychenko

>>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

>>16493345 China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin says Beijing has a "consistent and clear" position on relations with Canberra as he again addressed the issue of tariffs amid calls for trade sanctions to be lifted

>>16493348 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin’s Regular Press Conference on June 22, 2022

>>16493363 Labor national secretary Paul Erickson meets China’s top diplomat, Xiao Qian

>>16493387 Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Commonwealth of Australia - Ambassador Xiao Qian meets with former Australian Foreign Minister Carr, 2022-06-23

>>16493387 Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Commonwealth of Australia - Ambassador Xiao Qian meets with former Australian Prime Minister Howard, 2022-06-23

>>16493422 Chinese Consulate General in Sydney Tweet: Video: China-made world's largest container ship delivered (Evergreen "Ever Alot")

>>16499508 China envoy Xiao Qian offers hope for better relations with Australia - Xiao’s speech and question-and-answer session at the University of Technology Sydney was regularly interrupted by anti-Chinese Communist Party protesters chanting “free Tibet” and “free Hong Kong”, while accusing the regime of genocide against Uighurs in the Xinjiang region

>>16499508 Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Commonwealth of Australia - Promote Healthy and Stable Development of China-Australia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in the Spirit of Mutual Respect and Mutual Benefit - Ambassador XIAO Qian - 2022-06-24

>>16499671 We can ‘get relationship back on track’: China ambassador Xiao Qian says he remains “optimistic”, despite being repeatedly interrupted by protesters during his first public speech

>>16499706 Protesters interrupt Chinese ambassador’s event in Sydney - Well-known anti-Chinese Communist Party activist Drew Pavlou was among the protesters to be removed from the event by security guards

>>16499719 Video: Chinese ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian interrupted by protesters during speech - Guardian Australia

>>16499743 Video: Chinese ambassador claims address protest is not an 'expression of free speech' - Sky News Australia

>>16499791 IN FULL: Protesters interrupt Chinese Ambassador's address on relations with Australia - ABC News (Australia)

>>16499826 Chinese Ambassador says trade tariffs were in response to Morrison's 'nonsense' calls for inquiry into coronavirus origins - China's ambassador to Australia has blamed former prime minister Scott Morrison's call for an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19 as the reasoning behind the strict trade sanctions currently imposed

>>16499876 Mike Pompeo Tweet: Video: Make no mistake, the Chinese Communist Party has been at war with the American economy for decades. The Biden Administration needs to wake up to this threat, not lift the tariffs we placed on China in the Trump Administration.

>>16499926 Marles’ rhetoric driving a wedge between China and India disgraceful - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

#23 and #24 - Part 24

Australia / China Tensions - Part 8

>>16499961 U.S. vows more high-level engagement with Pacific islands amid China push - White House Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell expects more high-level U.S. officials to visit Pacific island countries as Washington steps up its engagement to counter China in the strategically important region

>>16500004 Anthony Albanese to push unity on China at Pacific Islands Forum - Anthony Albanese will urge regional leaders at the upcoming Pacific Islands Forum to stand together and guard against coercion and threats to their sovereignty

>>16513637 Senator Penny Wong Tweet: Our thoughts are with Cheng Lei - especially today on her birthday. Our hearts go out to her children, whose birthday messages will be passed on during a consular visit to her next Wednesday.

>>16513727 Drew Pavlou Tweet: Video: This CCP supporter attacked me and destroyed my “Free Tibet, Free Uyghurs” sign at the Chinese Ambassador’s speech today

>>16513777 Arthur Sinodinos, Australia’s Ambassador to the United States Tweet: Great to join @NZAmbassadorUS, Ambassador @CarolineKennedy, & representatives of the Pacific island nations tonight to strengthen our long-standing alliance & work together to advance peace & prosperity in the Pacific region & beyond.

>>16513860 China reopens visas for Australians, but those with a past COVID-19 infection will have to take six PCR tests

>>16525179 Beijing’s olive branch to Australia for 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties - China’s ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian says Beijing wants to restart the relationship with Australia by the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries in December

>>16525209 Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urges recognition of Taiwan - Indo-Pacific alliances need reinforcement to prevent Chinese occupation of Taiwan, which would threaten Japan, Hawaii and Australia, Pompeo says

>>16534625 China pushes for Pacific foreign ministers meeting at same time Pacific Islands Forum meets

>>16534644 ‘Completely out of order’: ABC requests interviewee Dr Malcolm Davis, senior analyst at think tank ASPI, not to make ‘anti-China’ comments

>>16534696 Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Commonwealth of Australia - Ambassador Xiao Qian visited the headquarters of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - 2022-06-24

>>16543873 Australia commits to Pacific islands defence training as China plans for a rival meeting to next month's Pacific Islands Forum

>>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

>>16563906 Video: NATO has for the first time declared China as a security threat, warning its ambitions and coercive behaviour “challenge our interests, security and values”

>>16563927 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s Regular Press Conference on June 29, 2022

>>16563962 Chinese media blasts ‘ignorant’ Anthony Albanese, claims Australian PM is being ‘misled by NATO’ and that hopes for bettering relations were “diminishing by the day”

>>16563982 Albanese must not be misled by alliance: China Daily editorial - chinadaily.com.cn

>>16564054 Australia part of Asia, Foreign Minister Penny Wong says on visit to Malaysian birthplace

>>16572753 Beijing issues stark warning to Australia over South China Sea - “Those who come uninvited shall bear the consequences” - Senior Colonel Tan Kefei, spokesman for China’s Ministry of National Defence

>>16572765 Chinese military spokesperson responds to provocations of Australian, Canadian military aircraft - Xinhua - chinadaily.com.cn

#23 and #24 - Part 25

Australia / China Tensions - Part 9

>>16573173 Ugly scenes at Australia vs China FIBA World Cup qualifier in Melbourne as Chinese “nationalists” clashed with Hong Kong human rights protesters

>>16573186 Drew Pavlou Tweet: Video: Chinese ultra-nationalists violently assault Hong Kong human rights protestors at the China vs Australia basketball match

>>16573186 Drew Pavlou Tweet: Video: Watch this to see how ugly Chinese ethno nationalism can get. We held a small protest today outside the Australia vs China match. I yelled “Free the Uyghurs, One million Uyghurs in concentration camps,” Chinese ultranationalists yelled “shut the fuck up” and “fuck your mother”

>>16580210 China, Solomon Islands see security cooperation progress - Shan Jie and Zhao Juecheng - globaltimes.cn

>>16586849 Coalition concedes China does appear to be aiming to establish a military base in Solomon Islands, a change of tack from former prime minister Scott Morrison’s insistence no such thing would happen

>>16586884 Enter the naval dragon: China can already control most of our region - NATO’s game-changing commitment to boost high-readiness forces will transform the European balance of power. The opposite is occurring here - Alan Dupont - theaustralian.com.au

>>16594111 Australian ambassador to China, Graham Fletcher, had a meeting with Chinese vice foreign minister Xie Feng on June 30, according to a one-sentence statement on China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ website

>>16594111 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China - Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng Meets with Australian Ambassador to China Graham Hugh Fletcher, 2022-07-04 - On June 30, 2022, Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng met with Australian Ambassador to China Graham Hugh Fletcher at the latter's request. Both sides exchanged in-depth views of China-Australia relations

>>16594133 Di Sanh Duong, Chinese community leader accused of using a $37,000 hospital donation to gain influence over the Australian government says he was only trying to "reduce anti-Chinese sentiment"

>>16594153 China's influence hard to ignore in Solomon Islands' capital Honiara, as Australia warned it could be 'left behind'

>>16594174 November 2021 riots revealed police weakness, says Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

>>16594196 Video: Senior State Department official Derek Chollet says US-Australia relationship is 'absolutely critical' to counter China’s Indo-Pacific push

>>16594226 Australian user data security in doubt after TikTok admits US data accessible by China

>>16601722 Signs of a thaw in relations as Beijing warms to G20 meeting with Penny Wong

>>16601732 Video: Rafael Grossi, head of United Nations nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warns 'a lot of work to do' before AUKUS submarine deal approval

>>16619051 Wong open to meeting with China at G20 - Foreign Minister Penny Wong says the opportunity for talks with her Chinese counterparts is on the table at the G20 meeting in Bali this week

>>16619054 Beijing tells Canberra to take ‘concrete actions’ before Penny Wong meets Chinese Foreign Minister

>>16619055 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s Regular Press Conference on July 5, 2022

>>16619077 Chinese Communist Party donates police equipment to Solomon Islands - Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare declares he wants China to play a permanent role training police in his country, and flags a substantial new donation of police vehicles and equipment from Beijing

>>16655314 Wong: It is in Australia’s interests to stabilise relationship with China

>>16655322 Opportunity for Australia to further warm relations with China in Bali: China Daily editorial - chinadaily.com.cn

>>16655327 Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare thanks China, refuses to answer questions from Australian press

>>16655563 'Concrete actions required' for Albanese govt to replace 'microphone diplomacy' to improve damaged China-Australia ties - Albanese govt urged to work for Australia's own interests, not for US - Liu Xin

>>16655582 Diplomatic freeze ends: China locks in Wong meeting

>>16655681 FBI, MI5 heads issue joint warning on China's threat to Western security

#23 and #24 - Part 26

Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic, Australia and Worldwide

>>16376882 Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews' department told to release COVID-19 pandemic surveys in the 'strong interest' of the Victorian public

>>16395617 Canberra Airport threatens ACT’s chief health officer with legal action if immediate action is not taken to end the airport face mask mandate

>>16395641 Pandemic response shrinks as COVID-19 pressure builds - Victorian government dismantling its central pandemic bureaucracy as the health system confronts a deadly surge of COVID-19 and influenza inflections - workforce of 1500 people reduced to 260 full-time positions by the end of June 2022

>>16439673 ‘Immunity is waning’: Andrews seeks fourth shot for hospital workers - Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews will push the federal government for all healthcare workers in hospitals across Victoria to get a fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine, amid concerns over waning immunity

>>16461204 Australia to deliver 200,000 paediatric vaccines to Solomon Islands

>>16481901 Melbourne man Dennis Basic jailed for more than two years over assaults at anti-lockdown protests

>>16487769 ‘Very appealing’: US COVID-19 vaccine giant Novavax looks to amp up Australian trials, including further research to develop its combined coronavirus and influenza vaccine

>>16499826 Chinese Ambassador says trade tariffs were in response to Morrison's 'nonsense' calls for inquiry into coronavirus origins - China's ambassador to Australia has blamed former prime minister Scott Morrison's call for an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19 as the reasoning behind the strict trade sanctions currently imposed

>>16513912 Australia’s vaccine advisory panel considers delaying a recommendation that more people get a fourth COVID booster shot until a better Omicron-targeting vaccine is available

>>16573236 ‘No time to wait’: Virus experts push for fourth COVID booster shots - Australia should approve a fourth COVID-19 booster shot for the entire adult population within months if the wait for vaccines that target new Omicron variants drags on, epidemiologists say

>>16580078 'Increasing pressure' nationally to return to masks amid worsening COVID wave - Queensland Chief Health Officer, John Gerrard

>>16580095 Bob Carr Tweet: A relief. But as the speaker at an event yesterday I sat at main table and was only one wearing mask and insisting on elbows not hands. Today one of the guests advises they have tested positive. Why this resistance to basic precautions? Why aren’t we all wearing masks?

>>16586791 COVID-19 vaccination requirements to be scrapped for international arrivals into Australia

>>16594090 Too late for mask mandates as Omicron continues to drive high case numbers - Nation reaches Grim milestone of 10,000 Covid-related deaths since the virus landed here in January 2020, but experts say Australia has done relatively well in terms of controlling case numbers

>>16656037 Australia expands fourth COVID dose rollout amid fresh Omicron threat

>>16656069 Victorian Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas will not rule out mask mandates and working from home orders as COVID-19 cases surge

#23 and #24 - Part 27

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell - Part 1

>>16345934 Kevin Spacey charged over four sex attacks - Hollywood megastar charged by UK Metropolitan Police with four counts of sexual assault against three men

>>16345949 Video: Let Me Be Frank - Kevin Spacey - Dec 25, 2018 (mimicking his character Frank Underwood from the House of Cards TV series)

>>16345951 Video: KTWK ('Kill Them With Kindness') - Kevin Spacey - Dec 25, 2019

>>16345956 Video: 1-800 XMAS - Kevin Spacey - Dec 25, 2020

>>16346016 Q Post #4590 - "This marks the third Spacey accuser to die in 2019." At what point does it become painfully obvious? Q

>>16346016 SHAME OF THRONES - When king and queen of perversion Ghislaine Maxwell and Kevin Spacey hung out at Buckingham Palace - New York Post front cover - July 5 2020

>>16346016 Kevin Spacey accuser dies by suicide day after actor posts 'kill them with kindness' video - Spencer Neale - washingtonexaminer.com - December 26, 2019

>>16346016 House of Cards - https://qanon.pub/?q=spacey - https://qanon.pub/?q=house%20of%20cards

>>16379341 The Archbishop of Canterbury says Prince Andrew is ‘seeking to make amends’ and urges the nation to be more forgiving

>>16395789 First Asking $125 Million, Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean Islands Now Available for $55 Million Each - Jeffrey Epstein’s estate is cutting the price of two private Caribbean islands that were owned by the late disgraced financier

>>16395792 Q Post #1001 - Where do roads lead? Each prince is associated with a cardinal direction: north, south, east and west. Sacrifice. Collect. [Classified]-1 [Classified]-2 Tunnels. Table 29. D-Room H - D-Room R - D-Room C - Pure EVIL. 'Conspiracy' - Q

>>16418599 Rina Oh alleges Virginia Giuffre sexually assaulted her during 'horror' encounter with Jeffrey Epstein

>>16425058 PDF: Jeffrey Epstein accuser alleges second accuser, Virginia Giuffre, 'sexually assaulted' her - Virginia Giuffre and Rina Oh have accused each other of defamation and sexual abuse or assault, several court papers show

>>16430216 Jailed Ghislaine Maxwell barred from seeing her brother - Ian Maxwell turned away after 3,000 mile trip, despite pre-arranging prison visit to socialite convicted of sex trafficking charges

>>16434665 Former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell who is facing 55 years in a US prison will ask to serve the bulk of her sentence for child sex trafficking in the UK so she can have family visits

>>16444292 Ghislaine Maxwell will ask to serve sex trafficking sentence in British prison - Former socialite faces up to 55 years in jail after being convicted of procuring young girls for Jeffrey Epstein

>>16455260 Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers plea for trafficking sentence ‘well below’ 20 years - “A travesty of justice for her to face a sentence that would have been appropriate for Epstein”

>>16455317 PDF: Ghislaine Maxwell asks court for sex trafficking sentence of ‘well below’ 20 years - The disgraced British socialite’s lawyers argued that she was threatened in jail and cannot be made proxy for Jeffrey Epstein

>>16461178 Kevin Spacey granted bail over sexual assault charges - US actor Kevin Spacey has been given unconditional bail after appearing in a London court on four charges of sexually assaulting three men

>>16467100 Plaything of perverts… and a Prince: NIGEL CAWTHORNE takes a forensic look at the abuse suffered by Virginia Roberts - the ex-sex slave Prince Andrew just paid £12m - in a new book with details that make the Duke's behaviour all the more repugnant - Adapted from Virginia Giuffre: The Extraordinary Life Story Of The Masseuse Who Pursued And Ended The Sex Crimes Of Millionaires Ghislaine Maxwell And Jeffrey Epstein, by Nigel Cawthorne

>>16467125 Q Post #4923 - https://twitter.com/VRSVirginia/status/1319071346282778624 - Dearest Virginia - We stand with you. Now and always. Find peace through prayer. Never give up the good fight. God bless you. Q

#23 and #24 - Part 28

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell - Part 2

>>16472974 'The snickering noises Andrew was making suggested he was enjoying it. But I felt like a prostitute': NIGEL CAWTHORNE reveals how Virginia Roberts was introduced to the Duke of York and the role of sex-trafficker and disgraced socialite Ghislaine Maxwell

>>16493508 PDF: ‘Utter lack of remorse’ - Feds say Ghislaine Maxwell ‘deserves at least 30 years’ in jail for her role in the sexual abuse of teenage girls over a 10-year period by her onetime boyfriend, financier Jeffrey Epstein

>>16493574 PDF: Prince Andrew's sex accuser to speak at Ghislaine Maxwell's sentencing - Virginia Giuffre is one of six women set to speak at Ghislaine Maxwell's sentencing for recruiting Epstein victims next week as Maxwell faces up to 55 years in prison

>>16524670 PDF: Ghislaine Maxwell urges U.S. judge not to admit testimony from four female accusers at her sentencing for aiding financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of underage girls

>>16524741 PDF: Prince Andrew's sex accuser says Ghislaine Maxwell 'opened door to hell' for abuse - In a victim impact statement made public for the first time, Virginia Giuffre says she was "chosen" by Ghislaine Maxwell at the Mar-a-Lago hotel in Florida to be abused - claiming she acted like a "wolf in sheep's clothing"

>>16524774 PDF: Virginia Giuffre says Ghislaine Maxwell was a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’ - One of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims has said Ghislaine Maxwell used her ‘femininity to betray us’

>>16524804 PDF: Ghislaine Maxwell deserves to be 'in a cage forever', says Virginia Giuffre - Ms Giuffre claims the British socialite 'opened to door to hell' for her and many others by introducing them to Jeffrey Epstein

>>16524870 PDF: Old school pal only friend to plead for ‘monstrous’ Ghislaine Maxwell - Harriett Jagger, wealthy former fashion executive at Tatler and Vogue magazines, will be the first, and only, friend to vouch for Maxwell in court

>>16524948 PDF: Ghislaine Maxwell put on suicide watch at Brooklyn jail ahead of sentencing for aiding Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls

>>16543926 Ghislaine Maxwell will be sentenced overnight. Here's what we know about the case and Jeffrey Epstein's former partner

>>16543948 Ghislaine Maxwell sentencing: Who will speak, where will she be imprisoned and how long will she spend behind bars?

#23 and #24 - Part 29

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell - Part 3

>>16553532 Video: Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in jail for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls

>>16553595 Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex crimes - Jeffrey Epstein’s right hand woman Ghislaine Maxwell spoke in court about her biggest “regret” before being jailed for 20 years

>>16553709 Video: ‘No one is above the law’: Ghislaine Maxwell gets massive sentence for sex trafficking as she lashes out at paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

>>16553858 Video: Maxwell's final supporters: How Ghislaine's millionaire siblings have defiantly stood by the disgraced socialite despite her convictions for sex trafficking

>>16553971 RealGhislaine Tweet: Ghislaine’s Statement made to the Court at her Sentencing

>>16553971 Statement of Ghislaine Maxwell, 29 June 2022 - "…to those of you who spoke here today and those who did not, may this day help you travel from darkness into light."

>>16554164 Q Post #133 - Epstein island. What is a temple? What occurs in a temple? Worship? Why is the temple on top of a mountain? How many levels might exist below? What is the significance of the colors, design and symbol above the dome? Why is this relevant? Who are the puppet masters? Have the puppet masters traveled to this island? When? How often? Why? “Vladimir Putin: The New World Order Worships Satan” - Q

>>16554164 Q Post #3050 - This is not just about sex trafficking [1]. Will the rich & powerful influence the court to prevent the unsealing? THE TALE OF TWO: [1] - Sex Resort (non_temple_resort_only) trafficked & drugged underage girls - [2] - Occult / Worship of Evil (temple) [CLAS 1-99] Haiti > - Pray for the victims. Q

>>16554164 Q Post #3147 - >Rachel Chandler had the possible Epstein Island security cam pic on her instagram

>>16554164 Q Post #3399 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNue92Gta3s&feature=youtu.be - Welcome to Epstein Island. Ask yourself, is this normal? What does a 'Temple' typically symbolize? What does an 'OWL' symbolize (dark religion)? Tunnels underneath? How many channels captured on RC's pic? Rooms indicate size. Hallways shown? - [CLAS 1-99] - Symbolism will be their downfall. These people are EVIL. Q

>>16573535 RealGhislaine Tweet: R Kelly 30 years and 100,000 - Harvey Weinstein 23 years - Bill Cosby 10 years and 25,000 - G Maxwell 20 years 750,000 fine - How is this justice?

>>16580408 RealGhislaine Tweet: "The whole system was designed to convict, not to find the truth".

>>16580415 My sister Ghislaine was denied justice - The whole system was designed to convict, not to find the truth - Ian Maxwell - spectator.co.uk

#23 and #24 - Part 30

Child Exploitation, Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Investigations - Part 1

>>16350072 ANONS, REMEMBER: GLOBAL REPORT ALL CHILD ABUSE MATERIAL! ZERO TOLERANCE! https://qanon.pub/?q=child

>>16350160 ‘Son of Satan’: Andrew Males jailed for 25 years for depraved attacks on women - Cruel and sadistic man with links to white supremacy groups took pleasure in raping, bashing and brutalising women across Melbourne’s north and west over two decades

>>16350240 Queensland MP shares story of child sexual abuse to 'give a voice' to other survivors - Labor Member for Macalister, Melissa McMahon has shared her harrowing story as a victim of child sexual abuse in a bid to raise awareness and inspire other victims to speak out

>>16350304 Former Hey Dad! star Robert Hughes’ public parole hearing concludes in Sydney - A former Hey Dad! cast member and convicted pedophile’s sad transformation was revealed when he appeared in court in a bid for freedom

>>16350310 Video: Former Hey Dad! co-star and sexual abuse victim Sarah Monahan speaks to reporters after a parole hearing for convicted child sex offender Robert Hughes

>>16356644 Australian Federal Police - Operation Arkstone: How a single USB stick led to the rescue of 56 children and the arrest of 26 men

>>16372636 Video: How Russell Manser went from robbing banks to helping other prisoners | Australian Story - ABC News In-depth

>>16372636 How career criminal and notorious bank robber Russell Manser turned his life around - abc.net.au

>>16373141 Child and sex charges rock swimming - A former Swimming Australia employee has been charged with three counts of indecent treatment of children under 16 and one count of sexual assault over incidents that allegedly occurred between 2002 and 2010

>>16384797 Convicted paedophile and former Hey Dad! actor Robert Hughes granted parole and will be deported to the United Kingdom

>>16384867 Video: Actor and sex offender Robert Hughes granted parole after two failed attempts - 9 News Australia

>>16395733 Survivor of sexual abuse by paedophile junior cricket coach Ian King sues Cricket Australia and Cricket ACT

>>16408526 Ex-SA corrections officer Stewart Iain Berry to stand trial over allegations he indecently filmed children as part of an online SA pedophile syndicate

>>16418590 Former Australian Olympic swimming team physio Peter John Wells accused of child sex offences including three counts of indecent treatment of a child under the age of 16

>>16434685 Australian Border Force missed evidence of sexual abuse then it continued for years: victim Tiffany Skeggs - Border security officials failed to thoroughly search the mobile phone of one of Australia’s most notorious paedophiles, James Geoffrey Griffin, at Melbourne Airport in 2015 despite being warned the 64-year-old was a suspected child sex offender travelling overseas with a minor

>>16434710 Survivors fight back against trafficking - Tsvetelina Thompson, Survivor of Human Trafficking and NSW Detective Chief Inspector Darren Jameson to speak at Modern Slavery Online Summit - June 15-16 2022 - https://freedomforhumanity.org.au

>>16444093 Australian Federal Police warned child predator Naim Anderson about online behaviour months before arrest, court told

>>16444123 South Australian paedophile Naim Anderson jailed for 'aggressively' seeking child abuse material through social media

>>16444172 Paedophile Hey Dad! star Robert Hughes is released from jail and will be deported to the UK within hours despite continuing to deny all of his crimes, 14 June 2022

>>16444215 Craig Kelly staffer Frank Zumbo allegedly showed woman his penis, court told - A trusted adviser of controversial former federal MP Craig Kelly has been hit with fresh charges of indecent assault as he faced court to fight 20 charges of indecently assaulting five women

#23 and #24 - Part 31

Child Exploitation, Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Investigations - Part 2

>>16444470 She was sex trafficked by her boyfriend as a teenager. A decade later, one question freed her - Tsvetelina Thompson fell in love with a man who was ‘picture perfect’. Then, she found herself trapped in a life where she no longer felt human.

>>16444495 Twentyfour-Seven - anti-trafficking organization dedicated to bringing intelligence, and services to victims and survivors of sex trafficking, founded by Tsvetelina Thompson in 2019 - http://twentyfour-seven.org

>>16444495 Twentyfour-Seven QR code - delivering critical information in several languages about human trafficking and how to find help, Australia included - https://247informationservices.in

>>16444495 Reporting human trafficking to the Australian Federal Police - Assist the AFP in combating this global problem - Use our online form to report information regarding human trafficking for the purposes of sexual and/or labour exploitation, organ harvesting, forced marriage and slavery or call 131 AFP (131 237) - https://forms.afp.gov.au/online_forms/human_trafficking_form - In case of an emergency, call 000

>>16449464 Video: Brave whistleblowers expose one of Australia's worst child abuse scandals - Abuse allegations at Ashley Youth Detention Centre in Tasmania, and notorious paedophile James Griffin at Launceston General Hospital - 60 Minutes Australia

>>16449759 Paedophile Bronte Ciracovitch sentenced to 14 years' jail for multiple child sex offences

>>16461493 Former South Australian Labor staffer Benjamin John Waters spared jail over child abuse material, will spend at least eight months on home detention for viewing and sending child abuse material

>>16461541 Paedophile Benjamin John Waters sentenced to eight months home detention because of ‘harrowing’ time in jail after arrest - An ex-ALP staffer who pleaded guilty to child abuse offences has been sentenced to eight months home detention – because a judge says he had a “harrowing” time in jail

>>16461562 Former priest Gerald Ridsdale admits to more child sex offences - The prolific paedophile, already behind bars, pleads guilty to 13 more child sexual abuse charges

>>16466610 Catholic church uses paedophile priest’s death as shield against new allegations in NSW - Lismore diocese wins halt on civil case after arguing woman had never complained before Father Clarence Anderson died in 1996

>>16471614 Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) employed paedophile junior coaching co-ordinator Roy Wenlock for 29 years - One of three sex offenders investigated in WA Supreme Court Justice Peter Blaxell's 452-page parliamentary inquiry into historical child sexual abuse at Anglican hostels, published in 2012

>>16476592 Former professional cricket player and junior coach Ian King pleads guilty to historical child sex charges

>>16476851 Video: Australian Federal Police issues warning over rise in sexual extortion targeting boys - Online criminals have been duping kids into sending explicit photos and then demanding cash not to share them - Channel 7 Sunrise

>>16476888 Child sex offenders preying on Australian boys for money - The Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) is warning that Australia is seeing a global trend in the crime of sexual extortion, with a spike in the number of Australian boys being preyed on by international sex offenders, who are grooming them into producing explicit images and then extorting them for money - afp.gov.au

>>16476919 Video: Hilda Sirec - Commander ACCCE, Human Exploitation addresses 'Sextortion' trend - Boys are being coerced into sending sexualised images and videos of themselves and then being blackmailed by offenders who threaten to share them. It’s a worrying global trend. And it’s happening right here in Australia. What can you do about it? Share this video and help us spread the message that sexual extortion #sextortion is a crime and the police are here to help - Australian Centre To Counter Child Exploitation

>>16476959 Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation Tweet: #Australian #boys are being coerced into sending sexualised images of themselves and then being blackmailed by offenders who threaten to share them. We've put together a simulated #textchat to show what #sextortion can look like. http://accce.gov.au/report

>>16481812 Bradley Pen Dragon - Notorious paedophile who thinks sex with children is 'natural' will be released into the Western Australian community TODAY, 21 June 2022

>>16481831 Bradley Pen Dragon: High risk WA paedophile to walk free from Acacia Prison today, 21 June 2022

#23 and #24 - Part 32

Child Exploitation, Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Investigations - Part 3

>>16487659 Olympic swim coach Dick Caine charged after allegedly sexually abusing teenage girls he trained more than 40 years ago in South Sydney

>>16487682 Legendary swim coach Dick Caine bailed on historic sex abuse charges has months to live - Renowned swim coach Dick Caine, charged with abusing two teenage girls in the 1970s, has been bailed after a court heard he is terminally ill

>>16487690 ‘Sex terrorist’ pedophile Geoffrey William Moyle’s eight-year sentence revoked on appeal, replaced with 12-year term - The Adelaide-based “sex terrorist” who pioneered the dark web’s vile global child exploitation industry has been resentenced in a decision set to change Australian law

>>16487699 Adelaide paedophile Geoffrey William Moyle has sentence extended to 12 years

>>16487707 24-year-old babysitter pleads guilty to committing 141 sex crimes, including raping a baby and sexually abusing several other children

>>16493439 Victims say Catholic Church failed to inform them about NSW paedophile priest Vincent Gerard Ryan's death

>>16493450 Social media warning amid community concern over WA paedophile Bradley Pen Dragon’s release

>>16513539 Video: Bradley Pen Dragon: Notorious paedophile arrested about 48 hours after release from Perth prison

>>16513559 66-year-old Victorian man travelled to Sydney to meet girl under 10 for sex, say NSW police from Child Exploitation Investigation Unit’s Strike Force Trawler,

>>16525367 E-commerce platform Made-in-China.com selling sex dolls modelled off of toddler girls - Collective Shout investigation uncovers VAST range of child sex abuse dolls - Take action - Tell Made-in-China to STOP selling child sex abuse dolls + ban all sellers

>>16534780 'Lack of action' over Tasmanian pedophile nurse James Geoffrey Griffin - Tasmanian inquiry told alleged pedophile nurse was reported to police and breached patient boundaries across decades before being charged

>>16534819 Pedophile nurse tip off ignored - Tasmanian authorities allowed pedophile nurse James (Jim) Geoffrey Griffin to work with children for 18 years after complaints were first raised about him, leading to the sexual abuse of multiple children

>>16534842 BMX champion Rhys Kember sentenced to three years jail for soliciting nude photos from multiple teenage girls

>>16543912 Woman abused by Launceston General Hospital paedophile James Griffin flagged risk to children, inquiry hears

>>16554457 Launceston General Hospital staff kept in the dark about paedophile co-worker James Geoffrey Griffin

>>16564074 James Griffin’s boss, Sonja Leonard, breaks down amid claims paedophile ‘manipulated’ a ward in disarray, says the “dysfunctional” nature of Launceston General Hospital’s children’s ward created opportunities for the abuser to strike

#23 and #24 - Part 33

Child Exploitation, Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Investigations - Part 4

>>16564088 'Catastrophic' failings allowed Tasmanian hospital abuse - CEO of Launceston General Hospital, Eric Daniels, acknowledges catastrophic failures in relation to a pedophile nurse who worked on a children's ward for nearly two decades

>>16564172 Helen Bryan, Executive Director of Nursing at Launceston General Hospital got most of her information about paedophile James Griffin from a podcast by journalist Camille Bianchi - "The Nurse"

>>16564185 Podcast: The Nurse by Camille Bianchi - "A nurse lives in a quiet town in Tasmania, Australia. He spends his life working with children and is the ultimate father figure, but he has a dark secret. People who still hold positions of power protected him. They are still protecting others. Hear from childhood sexual assault survivors sharing their stories for the first time, and know that there are countless others waiting to be heard."

>>16564258 Victim’s complaint against paedophile nurse Jim Griffin ‘shut down’ after his death - Keelie McMahon, victim-survivor of paedophile nurse James Geoffrey Griffin, knew he would never go to prison

>>16573288 'No inquiry' about Tasmanian nurse child abuser - Stephen Ayre, former chief executive of Launceston General Hospital didn't make any inquiries about male pedophile nurse James Geoffrey Griffin, who worked at the facility's children's ward under his watch

>>16573336 ‘Medical emergency’ interrupts Tasmania’s child sexual abuse commission of inquiry hearings - Former chief executive of Launceston General Hospital Stephen Ayre collapses while giving evidence, requires hospitalisation

>>16586818 Tasmanian government to establish review of Launceston General Hospital where pedophile nurse James Geoffrey Griffin was able to keep working despite multiple complaints

>>16594285 Inquiry hears of paedophile James Geoffrey Griffin's 'red flags' while caring for teenage female at Launceston General Hospital

>>16594291 Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government's Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings - Live stream link

>>16601747 South Australian RAAF intelligence officer Jacob Donald Walsh pleads guilty to horrifying number of child-sex charges - RAAF intelligence expert used photos for blackmail, pleads guilty to 230 charges of child sexual exploitation, the highest number of child-sex charges ever laid against one person in Australia

>>16601766 South Australian paedophile syndicate: Public servant Stewart Iain Berry allegedly paid for sex with teen object of husband’s “uncontrollable obsession”

>>16601859 Angelique Knight, victim-survivor of paedophile nurse James Griffin yet to hear acknowledgment of suffering, Tasmanian Commission of Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Government Institutions hears

>>16601890 Tasmanian Child Safety Services executive director Claire Lovell apologises to Tiffany Skeggs and family of Zoe Duncan for James Griffin child abuse ordeal and disbelief by Tasmanian authorities

>>16655905 Notorious paedophile Bradley Pen Dragon bailed after pleading not guilty to breaching release order

>>16655939 Tasmania Police apologise to abuse victims over paedophile James Geoffrey Griffin

#23 and #24 - Part 34

Qanon / Conspiracy Theory Hit Pieces, Australia and Worldwide

>>16443877 Trump a clear and present danger to the great republic - "The risk for the US is that Trump or his surrogate runs for president in 2024 and we see a more sophisticated attempt to over­turn democracy that succeeds. The Republican Party, like the US, is best served by moving on from Trump. Those who defend him share his dishonour." - Troy Bramston - theaustralian.com.au

>>16509777 QAnon Creator ‘Q’ Returns After Nearly Two-Year Hiatus - In a surprise move, Q returns to tease a new “game” in cryptic posts - Will Sommer - thedailybeast.com

>>16512087 After two years, QAnon's creator Q returns in the wake of Roe v Wade decision - Harry Fletcher - indy100.com

>>16512958 Shayan Sardarizadeh Tweet: Q's return has forced me to properly read 8kun for the first time in over a year. I'd almost forgotten the feeling of having to read through 8kun several times a day. That website really is a snapshot of the absolute worst of humanity.

>>16525042 Suddenly 'Q' of the QAnon conspiracy theory has returned after a years-long hiatus. But, something isn't quite right… - Matt Binder - mashable.com

>>16525103 ‘QAnon’ conspiracy poster sending messages again, says Cullen Hoback, “Q: Into the Storm” filmmaker - Jesse Brooks - fox8live.com

>>16543785 Video: CNN reporter on Q's return: 'As dumb as it is dangerous' - CNN's Donie O'Sullivan and John Avlon report that the "Q" persona at the center of the QAnon conspiracy theory movement, has posted online for the first time since December 2020, after former President Donald Trump lost the election

>>16573365 Video: QAnon returns and targets Cassidy Hutchinson in new post - In a new post, online conspiracy theorist QAnon targets former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. CNN's Donie O'Sullivan explains what it means now that the account is back active

>>16573455 Q is back. What happens to QAnon now? - Sarah Manavis - inews.co.uk

>>16573504 Q Is Back and It’s Tearing the QAnon World Apart - “Q drops” have resumed, but believers are divided over whether they’re real - David Gilbert - vice.com

>>16601708 Holding Trump accountable critical to U.S. global leadership - "Trump's poor character, his contempt for laws and norms, and his autocratic tendencies are all well-known. These latest revelations are and should be jaw-dropping, evidence of a further descent into malignancy by Trump." - Dave Sharma, former Liberal Party member of Australia's House of Representatives and Australia's ambassador to Israel from 2013 to 2017 - asia.nikkei.com

>>16656293 Video: Mysterious Georgia Guidestones monument suddenly explodes - Explosion at mysterious US monument dubbed the “American Stonehenge” reignites conspiracy theorists online

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Statement by President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi Mourning Former Prime Minister Abe

JULY 08, 2022

We, the leaders of Australia, India, and the United States, are shocked at the tragic assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Prime Minister Abe was a transformative leader for Japan and for Japanese relations with each one of our countries. He also played a formative role in the founding of the Quad partnership, and worked tirelessly to advance a shared vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific. Our hearts are with the people of Japan — and Prime Minister Kishida— in this moment of grief. We will honor Prime Minister Abe’s memory by redoubling our work towards a peaceful and prosperous region.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/07/08/statement-by-president-joe-biden-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-and-prime-minister-narendra-modi-mourning-former-prime-minister-abe/

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Australian landmarks to be bathed in red and white for slain Shinzo Abe

CARLY DOUGLAS - JULY 9, 2022

Australian landmarks will be bathed in the red and white of Japan’s flag in tribute to assassinated former prime minister and close ally Shinzo Abe.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced separate plans to honour the late leader, 67, who was gunned down while giving a political stump speech on Friday in a killing that has shocked the world.

Speaking from Canberra on Saturday afternoon, Mr Albanese called Mr Abe, Japan’s longest-serving PM, “a true patriot and a true leader” and said he was “instrumental in delivering several historic developments between Japan and Australia.”

“He was a tireless champion for the comprehensive and progressive agreement for the Trans Pacific Partnership that brought huge benefits to Australia,” Mr Albanese said.

“He elevated our bilateral relationship to a special strategic partnership, and his long standing.”

The Prime Minister said the idea that “someone of such courage, with such strength of character could be taken away with an act of extreme cowardice,” was a “cruel paradox.”

He confirmed that landmarks across the country were to be lit up in red and white over the weekend, including at the Sydney Opera House, the Adelaide Oval and at Parliament House

Mr Albanese extended his support to Mr Abe’s friends and family, and to the people of Japan.

“We stand with you in this time of sadness,” he said.

Earlier, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said Melbourne’s most famous landmarks would also be lit in red and white on Saturday night in Mr Abe’s honour, calling his assassination an “unspeakable tragedy.”

“He served his country with great honour and transformed the geopolitics of our region,” Mr Andrews posted to Twitter this morning.

“He was a wonderful friend of Australia and my thoughts and prayers are with his wife, his family, and the Japanese people.”

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/australian-landmarks-to-be-bathed-in-red-and-white-for-slain-shinzo-abe/news-story/a54e4dc180b36dcdb9746485471bb825

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Albanese pays tribute to 'true friend to Australia' Shinzo Abe

Sky News Australia

Jul 9, 2022

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Japan has lost a “true patriot” and “trie friend” of Australia with the passing of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe.

Mr Abe was assassinated at 67 years old in Nara, Japan when he was shot during a speech.

“During his time as Prime Minister but no-one was more committed to furthering relations between our two nations,” Mr Albanese said.

“He visited Australia no less than five times as the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Abe was instrumental in delivering several historic developments between Japan and Australia.”

Mr Albanese said he had contacted the Japanese ambassador to pay respects to Mr Abe.

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

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Japanese Ambassador YAMAGAMI Shingo Tweets

We are devastated to learn of the passing of former Prime Minster ABE Shinzo. Our thoughts are with his family at this extremely tragic time. Deeply moved by all kind and thoughtful messages received on his passing from so many friends of (Japan).

https://twitter.com/YamagamiShingo/status/1545401977596563457

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Grateful for the heartfelt kindness & sympathies of the people of Canberra. We have received so many warm messages on the passing of former Prime Minister ABE.

https://twitter.com/YamagamiShingo/status/1545674222759907329

‘The first step to better ties with Beijing’, says Penny Wong after meeting Chinese foreign minister

AMANDA HODGE and WILL GLASGOW - JULY 8, 2022

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Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Australia has taken an “important first step” towards stabilising ties with China following the first bilateral meeting in almost three years with its top diplomat Wang Yi, at which Beijing’s detention of Australian citizens and its trade coercion were raised.

Senator Wong met her Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Bali on late Friday after earlier this week calling on China to use its influence with Russia as a “no limits” partner to help end the war in Ukraine.

Senator Wong said after the meeting that the two ministers “spoke frankly and we listened carefully to each other’s priorities and concerns”.

But, she added, it would “take time and work” to mend ties.

The meeting in Bali follows Defence Minister Richard Marles’ meeting with his Chinese counterpart, General Wei Fenghe, in Singapore last month, which represented the first face-to-face minister-to-minister dialogue between the two nations since late 2019. A request by Trade Minister Don Farrell to meet his Chinese counterpart in Geneva was rebuffed. Former foreign minister Marise Payne last spoke to her Chinese counterpart by phone in early 2020, soon after the first cases of Covid-19 were ­detected in Wuhan.

“It’s fair to say we both recognised it’s a first step for both our nations,’’ Senator Wong said after her meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister. “We’ve got a path to walk and we will see if it can lead to a better place between the two countries.’’

“It’s unsurprising that we would raise consular cases including Ms Cheng Lei and Dr Yang, and others,” she said referring to the Chinese Australian journalist and Chinese Australian writer Yang Hengjun being held on spurious national security charges.

“Obviously we discussed the trade blockages that exist and it remains the government’s position that those trade blockages should be revoked.”

China’s trade reprisals against Australia began after Senator Payne called in April 2020 for an investigation into the origins of Covid-19. Since then, at least $20bn in Australian exports of coal, wine, lobsters and other products have since been hit by Chinese tariffs and unofficial bans.

In a readout of her opening comments released late on Friday, Senator Wong told her Chinese counterpart that In the context of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, a deepening global food and fuel crisis and supply chain shocks “Australia will stand up for international law and the UN charter and we will urge other countries to do so”.

She also told Mr Wang that “Australia’s Government has changed but our national interests and our policy settings have not.

“And Australia will speak as necessary on the issues that matter to our nation and our people – we will do so calmly and consistently.”

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Senator Wong said she had also conveyed Australia’s view about international law and the importance of the UN charter to Wang Yi in relation to Russia’s war on Ukraine, which China has refused to criticise.

Asked whether China had demanded anything concrete from Australia during the meeting, she replied: “I think the Chinese position is well known, the issues of difference is well known, and what was put to me reflected what we know China’s position to be.”

The foreign minister said she believed it was in both nations’ interests that another meeting be scheduled soon though “but that would require both countries to agree to do so”.

“I think all of these issues will take some time. And I think there is a path we are walking and we will take one step at a time in the interests of the country,” she said.

“We do have our differences but as I have previously said we believe it’s in the interests of both countries for the relationship to be stabilised and this Australian government will always seek to ­resolve issues calmly and consistently under the comprehensive strategic partnership and in accordance with Australia’s national interests.”

The highly anticipated meeting was the last in a whirlwind schedule of bilateral talks that on Friday included sit-downs with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, as well as foreign ministers from France, Germany and Canada on the sidelines of the G20.

Senator Wong hailed the G20 meeting on her way out of Bali on Friday night as a “constructive meeting that reaffirmed the importance of multilateralism … when the world faces so many challenges from the war in Ukraine, Russia’s illegal, immoral invasion of Ukraine, to food ­security, to climate change”.

Her meeting with Mr Wang came a day after he warned G20 nations against linking Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with Beijing’s threats to Taiwan.

“It is obviously double standards. Beijing rejects any attempt to compare the Ukraine crisis with the Taiwan question and will firmly safeguard its core interests,” Mr Wang said.

Anthony Albanese last week said Russia’s failed bid to take Ukraine showed “attempts to impose change by force on a sovereign country meets resistance”, prompting a scathing editorial in the China Daily that warned that high hopes of a reset in bilateral relations were “diminishing by the day”.

Asked about Wang Yi’s warning before Friday’s G20 talks, Senator Wong said Russia’s actions clearly constituted an abrogation of the UN charter and international law that holds that “another state will not by threat or force compromise or infringe on the territory integrity of another”.

“In relation to Taiwan, there is a bipartisan position on one China policy. I think there’s a bipartisan position now that we support the status quo and that there be no unilateral change to that status quo,” she said.

Analysts in both countries have cautioned that any improvement in the bilateral relationship will be modest.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/the-first-step-to-better-ties-with-beijing-says-penny-wong-after-meeting-chinese-foreign-minister/news-story/0cd8d6a1cfbd0bcc55f2d81bcfaf1f50

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Wang warns Wong: Don’t smear China over Ukraine

WILL GLASGOW - JULY 8, 2022

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has warned Australia and other G20 members against linking Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with Beijing’s threats to Taiwan, hours before he meets with Penny Wong.

Foreign Minister Wang issued the warning on Thursday in a bilateral meeting in Bali with India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers’s summit.

“It is obviously double standards. Beijing rejects any attempt to compare the Ukraine crisis with the Taiwan question and will firmly safeguard its core interests,” Mr Wang said.

Beijing’s position on the war — refusing to condemn Russia and offering propaganda support for Vladimir Putin — is one of a host of disagreements that will be on the crowded agenda for Foreign Minister Wong’s meeting with Mr Wang on Friday afternoon.

Mr Wang’s warning was made a week after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese drew a parallel between Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s menacing of Taiwan, saying Vladimir Putin’s failed bid to take Ukraine showed “attempts to impose change by force on a sovereign country meets resistance”.

Those comments by Mr Albanese — delivered during a NATO summit in Madrid — provoked an eruption from Chinese state media, which accused him of a “lack of diplomatic nous and poor grasp of political realities“.

The China Daily, in its first personal attack on the new Australian Prime Minister, warned of consequences.

“Last month, when Albanese’s Labor Party came to power, there were high hopes in both countries that it offered the opportunity to reset Australia’s ties with China. Those hopes are diminishing by the day,” the Beijing mouthpiece editorialised.

On Thursday, Mr Wang conducted bilateral meetings with countries including India and Indonesia that have also not explicitly condemned the invasion.

China’s envoy also met with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.

Before leaving Bali, Mr Wang is scheduled to hold bilateral talks with the US, France and Australia, all countries that have criticised China’s position on the war.

On Thursday, Ms Wong said Russia was conducting an “illegal, unjust and immoral war in Ukraine”.

In a keynote address in Singapore before the Bali conference, the Foreign Minister urged Beijing to use its influence as a “no limits” partner to Russia to end the war.

Ms Wong also linked Beijing’s position on the war to its assertive behaviour in the region, although she did not directly mention Taiwan.

“The region and the world is now looking at Beijing’s actions in relation to Ukraine. But this has also been true in respect of its regional actions, as its strategic outreach has intensified,” Ms Wong said.

“Regardless of the character of leadership Beijing chooses to demonstrate, we all have our own choices to make, and our own agency to exercise.

“We are more than just supporting players in a grand drama of global geopolitics, on a stage dominated by great powers.

“It is up to all of us to create the kind of region we aspire to – a stable, peaceful, prosperous and secure region,” she said.

Friday’s meeting between the Australian and Chinese foreign ministers is the first in almost three years after Beijing froze all ministerial communication.

Analysts in both countries have cautioned that any improvement in the bilateral relationship will be modest.

Liu Xiaobo, an international relations expert in China, told The Australian he was not “optimistic” about the outlook.

“It takes a lot of effort, and so far I haven’t seen many such signs,“ said Mr Liu, a senior researcher of Grandview Institution, a Beijing-based think tank.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/wang-warns-wong-dont-smear-china-over-ukraine/news-story/d37510b9767f218c1d5f5fbfa1a37725

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China highly appreciates remarks of PM Manasseh Sogavare on China.

SpokespersonCHN发言人办公室

Jul 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Aew_bLLJo

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Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s Regular Press Conference on July 8, 2022

Shenzhen TV: According to reports, on July 7, Solomon Islands Prime Minster Manasseh Sogavare said in a speech marking the country’s national independence day that China, a “new addition”, has already demonstrated a “genuine intention” to be a “worthy partner” in the country’s development with diplomatic ties of less than three years and expressed his appreciation. Do you have any comment?

Zhao Lijian: I want to start by extending sincere congratulations to Solomon Islands on the 44th anniversary of its independence. We highly appreciate the remarks by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare. We are glad to see the fruitful outcomes and sound momentum of China-Solomon Islands relations. Since diplomatic relations were established nearly three years ago, the relations between our two countries have enjoyed rapid and pace-setting growth, and set a fine example of countries of different sizes treating each other as equals and of solidarity and cooperation between two developing countries. State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi made Solomon Islands his first stop during the trip to the South Pacific in late May. This fully demonstrates the high quality of our relations and injected fresh and strong impetus into our all-round exchange and cooperation.

Facts have proven that the establishment of diplomatic relations and development of friendly cooperative relations between China and Solomon Islands is consistent with the trend of our times and the fundamental and long-term interests of both peoples and boasts enormous vitality and broad prospects. China will always be Solomon Islands’ trusted and reliable good friend and partner. We stand ready to work together with Solomon Islands to enhance dialogue, exchange and cooperation in various sectors, make new progress in bilateral relations and deliver more benefits to both peoples.

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/2511_665403/202207/t20220708_10717764.html

'Stop hiding behind the legal excuse': Australia can act to free Julian Assange, Andrew Wilkie says

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has rejected claims that Australia has limited ability to intervene in the case of Julian Assange, who is fighting an extradition request from the United States over leaks of classified documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

AAP, SBS - 8 July 2022

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has hit back at claims Australia had no legal grounds to intervene in the case of Julian Assange.

Mr Wilkie, a former intelligence analyst and a prominent advocate for Mr Assange, says the matter could be solved quickly at a political level.

"Governments and politicians have got to stop hiding behind the excuse of the Julian Assange matter being a legal matter," he told AAP.

"It has always been an intensely political matter."

The comments came after former attorney-general George Brandis said Australia had no legal grounds in Mr Assange's case.

"Australia wasn't a party to the proceedings and had no standing to intervene in the proceedings," Mr Brandis told the ABC.

"It was legal proceedings in a British court between the government of the United States and a private citizen. We would not intervene in those proceedings."

The WikiLeaks founder and Australian journalist has appealed to the High Court in London to block his extradition to the US to face criminal charges in the latest step of a legal battle that has dragged on for more than a decade.

Mr Assange, 50, is wanted by US authorities on 18 counts, including a spying charge, relating to WikiLeaks' release of vast troves of confidential US military records and diplomatic cables, which US officials have said put lives in danger.

Last month, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel approved his extradition, with her office saying UK courts had concluded his extradition would not be incompatible with his human rights, and that he would be treated appropriately.

However, Mr Wilkie said the matter could be solved with a phone call from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to the US or UK.

"This has gone on long enough, it's time to put it to an end," he said.

"I don't doubt that Australia has enough influence to bring this to an end, we underestimate ourselves to think otherwise, and we are close allies of both countries."

The independent MP said he was still optimistic about there being a change in the outcome for Mr Assange following the change of government in Australia at May's federal election.

"We hold out hope that with a change of government we see some progress on this," Mr Wilkie said.

Mr Albanese has said he didn't see the purpose of the "ongoing pursuit" of Mr Assange.

But he said the government would deal with the matter through diplomatic channels.

Former foreign minister Bob Carr said on Friday the government should tell the US "the Australian people want the Assange extradition quietly set aside", just as the US had commuted the sentence of whistleblower Chelsea Manning.

Mr Brandis, who oversaw consular assistance for Mr Assange when he was Australia's high commissioner in London, said he had made a point for staff to always be made available to meet the journalist's "reasonable requests".

"I instituted a practice of writing to him every month to ask him if there was anything more he needed," Mr Brandis said.

"Most of those letters were unresponded to, but there has not been a complaint that I'm aware of, from Mr Assange or his surrogates, that the Australian High Commission did not provide an appropriate level of consular support."

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/stop-hiding-behind-the-legal-excuse-australia-can-act-to-free-julian-assange-andrew-wilkie-says/e328tvlfd

EXCLUSIVE: Pope hopes London building last Vatican financial scandal

Pope praises Australian Cardinal George Pell who pushed for transparency

Philip Pullella - July 8, 2022

VATICAN CITY, July 7 (Reuters) - Pope Francis said he hoped that the recent sale of a luxury London building at the centre of an ongoing corruption trial meant the Vatican can see the back of financial scandals.

Vatican finances were one of the many Church and international topics the 85-year-old pontiff discussed in an exclusive interview with Reuters in his Vatican residence on July 2.

In other parts of the interview he denied that he was planning to resign anytime soon, denied that he had cancer, spoke of his hopes to go to Moscow and Kyiv and disclosed that for the first time he would appoint women to a Vatican committee that helps him choose bishops.

The interview took place a day after the Vatican announced it had completed the sale of the building on Sloane Avenue in Chelsea, taking an estimated hit of about 140 million euros.

Ten people including a Vatican cardinal and two Italian financial brokers are on trial in the Vatican on charges including embezzlement, fraud, money laundering and extortion relating to the building.

The pope was asked if he believed enough controls were now in place so that similar scandals could not take place again.

"I believe so," he said.

The Vatican's Secretariat of State first invested in the building in 2014 with funds from its own sovereign wealth fund, managed without external controls.

It had resisted oversight even from the Secretariat for the Economy, which the pope instituted in 2014 to oversee all Vatican finances and put a lid on decades of scandals caused by the fragmentation of finances, in which different departments exercised control in a fiefdom-like way.

As a result of the botched and embarrassing London deal, the pope stripped the Secretariat of State of control over its own investment funds in 2020.. Last month, he instituted a committee to oversee the ethics of all Vatican investments.

"Before, the administration (of Vatican money) was very messy," the pope said, adding that the Secretariat for the Economy is now staffed by expert, technical people, "who don't fall into the hands of quote-unquote benefactors or friends, who can make you slip up."

THE BLESSED IMELDA

He gave the example of priests who had no financial experience being asked to manage the finances of a department and who in good faith sought outside help from friends in the outside financial sector.

"But sometimes the friends were not The Blessed Imelda," he said, referring to a 14th century 11-year-old Italian girl who is a symbol of childhood purity.

"And so what happened, happened," the pope said.

He blamed "the irresponsibility of the structure" for past financial scandals, saying the administration of money "was not mature".

In the interview, Francis praised Australian Cardinal George Pell as "the genius" who had insisted that the Vatican needed an overarching economy ministry to control money flows and combat corruption.

Pell was the first head of the Secretariat for the Economy, receiving a mandate from the pope to clean up the Vatican's murky finances.

Pell, now 81, left the post in 2018 to face sex abuse charges dating back decades in Australia. He spent 13 months in solitary confinement before being cleared of all charges on appeal in 2020.

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, whom Pell has accused of having resisted financial reforms when he was number two at the Secretariat of State, is currently one of 10 defendants at the corruption trial over the London real estate deal.

All of the defendants have denied wrongdoing.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-pope-hopes-london-building-last-vatican-financial-scandal-2022-07-07/

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Anthony Albanese says New Zealanders might be allowed to vote in Australian elections, after meeting Jacinda Ardern

Tom Lowrey - 8 July 2022

New Zealanders who have lived in Australia for a long time could be given the right to vote in Australian elections, under potential changes flagged by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Mr Albanese will ask federal parliament's elections committee to consider what changes could be made to extend voting rights to some New Zealanders.

New Zealand already grants voting rights to Australians living in New Zealand if they have been there for a year or more.

But that right is not reciprocated, except for a small number of New Zealanders who enrolled to vote as "British subjects" prior to 1984.

Mr Albanese said there might be scope to change that.

"We'll be asking the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters to consider whether there's a way to return to systems that have existed in the past of giving New Zealand people who are here in Australia, contributing to society, paying taxes, working, voting rights here in Australia as well," he said.

"We won't pre-empt those processes. But it is, I think, a really common-sense position to at least examine over coming months."

As of the 2021 census, there were more than 530,000 people born in New Zealand living in Australia.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she asked Mr Albanese for "greater acknowledgement" of the contribution New Zealand expats were making to Australia.

She said work is underway to create a dedicated path to Australian citizenship for New Zealanders, separate to the ordinary process.

"Our ask has been for there to be a greater acknowledgement of the role that New Zealanders play here in Australia," she said.

"The fact that we have an agreement that no New Zealander or Australian should be rendered 'permanently temporary', that is a change in the way that we've previously seen New Zealanders treated here."

It is expected firm proposals for change will be put together before Anzac Day next year.

Deportations to remain, but with 'common sense' applied

The pair also discussed the sensitive issue of convicted criminals being deported in significant numbers to New Zealand.

In recent years, Australia has deported hundreds of New Zealand citizens found guilty of serious criminal offences, despite some holding few ties to the country.

It has been a source of tension between the two countries, and Mr Albanese said the government's approach to the issue will shift.

"We will continue to deport people when appropriate," he said.

"But we will have some common sense apply here.

"Where you have a circumstance where someone has lived their entire life, effectively, in Australia with no connection whatsoever to New Zealand, common sense should apply and we will act as friends."

Ms Ardern said that is the approach she wants to see taken.

"We acknowledge Australia will continue to deport, as New Zealand currently does have provision and does deport those who don't have a long-term connection to New Zealand," she said.

"What we have been seeking is common sense and the spirit of friendship.

"And that's what Prime Minister Albanese has spoken to today."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-08/anthony-albanese-and-jacinda-ardern-meet-for-talks/101220750

ICAC witness Clifton Wong found dead in office after giving evidence

Megan Gorrey - July 8, 2022

Former Hurstville councillor Clifton Wong, who gave evidence to the state anti-corruption watchdog in an investigation into the conduct of three of his former council colleagues earlier this week, has been found dead.

NSW Police said emergency services crews responded to reports a 62-year-old man had died in an office complex on Deane Street in Burwood about 1.20pm on Wednesday.

The Herald has confirmed the man was Wong, a former Labor councillor who served on Hurstville City Council from 1999 to 2012.

Wong was among witnesses at the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s inquiry into whether three former Hurstville councillors accepted perks from developers in exchange for favourable planning decisions.

He appeared most recently for cross-examination on Monday, when he told the inquiry he regretted not telling anyone he witnessed a developer hand the then-deputy mayor $10,000 to help with a potential development.

Police said there were no suspicious circumstances in his death. They will prepare a report for the coroner.

Wong’s barrister, Stephen Stanton, said the death of his client was “both personally and professionally [to me], a very sad development”.

Operation Galley is examining whether former Hurstville and Georges River councillors Con Hindi and Vince Badalati, and former Hurstville councillor Philip Sansom, accepted perks including overseas flights and accommodation from developers in exchange for supporting developments in Hurstville from 2014 to 2021.

The inquiry is also examining whether the three councillors deliberately failed to declare a conflict of interest stemming from their relationships with developers Philip Uy, Wensheng Liu and Yuqing Liu.

In his evidence on June 28, Wong said he saw Uy give Hindi an envelope containing $10,000 in exchange for favouring his and Wensheng Liu’s bid to buy a council-owned car park on Gloucester Road in Hurstville in 2012.

Under cross-examination on Monday, Wong said he hadn’t told anyone about the incident because he panicked.

“I didn’t know how to respond. I wish I had reported it back then, but I didn’t, and now I regret [it],” he said.

“This sort of thing, I know very well that it is not only immoral, it is illegal,” Wong said.

The inquiry heard Wong had been identified as a person of interest, along with Sansom, Badalati and Hindi, for allegedly “exercising [his] official functions dishonestly” when the ICAC investigation commenced in November.

Wong said in the witness box that he realised he was no longer a person of interest when he read an “investigation list” on the commission’s website when the inquiry began a few weeks ago.

Stanton said Wong had been due to return to the ICAC inquiry at a later date.

“He was courageous in terms of the evidence he gave to the commission that’s on the public record,” Stanton said.

“He was, as far as I was concerned, an honourable fellow.”

Legal representatives for witnesses at the inquiry extended their condolences to Wong’s family at the start of Friday’s hearing.

Commissioner Stephen Rushton described Wong’s death as a tragedy, and said he was “shocked and saddened”.

“Our thoughts are with his family, and we extend our deepest sympathy for what has occurred.”

Lawyers for Uy said their client felt unable to continue his evidence on Friday, and that in Chinese culture it would be disrespectful to Wong’s memory if he did so. He asked to be excused until next week.

Sansom’s lawyer also said his client, who was due to give evidence on Monday, might not be ready to proceed.

Rushton said the inquiry should adjourn until next week. It will resume on Tuesday.

“I sympathise with everyone’s position in this, but there’s a public interest also in resolving this investigation expeditiously,” he said.

Rushton urged witnesses and their lawyers to use the commission’s employee assistance program, which he said was available to any person whose health and safety might be at risk due to an investigation.

The ICAC has been contacted for comment.

Crisis support can be found at Lifeline: (13 11 14), the Suicide Call Back Service (1300 659 467) and Beyond Blue (1300 22 4636).

https://www.lifeline.org.au/

https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/

https://www.beyondblue.org.au/

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/icac-witness-found-dead-in-office-after-giving-evidence-20220707-p5b00i.html

Ghislaine Maxwell's attorneys appeal her federal conviction and sentence

Lauren del Valle - July 8, 2022

Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell have appealed her conviction and 20-year federal prison sentence for carrying out a yearslong scheme with her longtime confidante Jeffrey Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls.

Maxwell's defense argument was not immediately available, but her attorneys have maintained her innocence since her 2020 arrest, asserting Maxwell has been a scapegoat for prosecutors in the wake of Epstein's death in prison.

A notice of appeal was filed Thursday in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Maxwell, 60, was found guilty of five of six federal charges against her in December: sex trafficking of a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and three related counts of conspiracy.

She was sentenced on only three counts after the judge agreed two of the conspiracy counts she faced were repetitive.

At Maxwell's sentencing in June, defense attorney Bobbi Sternheim, as she did during the trial, pushed the blame on Epstein.

"We all know that the person who should have been sentenced today escaped accountability, avoided his victims, avoided absorbing their pain and receiving the punishment he truly deserved," Sternheim said. "Jeffrey Epstein left Ghislaine Maxwell holding the whole bag."

The trial judge, Alison Nathan, disagreed.

"Miss Maxwell is not punished in place of Epstein," she said. "Miss Maxwell is being punished for the role that she played."

Maxwell did not testify at her trial but spoke briefly at her sentencing, acknowledging she had been convicted but stopped short of taking responsibility.

"I am sorry for the pain that you've experienced," Maxwell said. "I hope my conviction … brings you closure."

Epstein, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to state prostitution charges, was indicted on federal sex trafficking charges in July 2019. He died by suicide in prison a month later. Maxwell has been detained since her arrest in July 2020, and prosecutors said she received credit for two years of time served.

Maxwell's monthlong trial last year alternated between disturbing testimony from sexual abuse victims and illuminating testimony about some of Epstein's connections to high-profile celebrities.

Prosecutors argued Maxwell and Epstein conspired to set up a scheme to lure young girls into sexual relationships with Epstein from 1994 to 2004 in New York, Florida, New Mexico and the US Virgin Islands. Four women testified during the trial that Epstein abused them and that Maxwell facilitated the abuse and sometimes participated in it as well.

Her defense, meanwhile, besides arguing she was a scapegoat, also attacked the memories and motivations of the women who say they were sexually abused.

According to the Bureau of Prisons website, Maxwell is being housed at a federal detention facility in Brooklyn.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/08/us/ghislaine-maxwell-appeal/index.html

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17318376/united-states-v-maxwell/?order_by=desc

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.539612/gov.uscourts.nysd.539612.697.0.pdf

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Ghislaine Maxwell appeals conviction, 20-year sentence in Epstein case

Jonathan Stempel - July 8, 2022

NEW YORK, July 7 (Reuters) - Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday formally appealed her conviction and 20-year prison sentence for helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls over more than a decade.

The British socialite's notice of appeal was filed nine days after she was sentenced by U.S. Circuit Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan.

Nathan said the punishment reflected Maxwell's "instrumental" role in the abuse, and the "incalculable" damage it caused to victims.

Lawyers for Maxwell had argued that she was being scapegoated for Epstein's crimes.

Maxwell, 60, was convicted in December after a monthlong trial on sex trafficking and four other counts for recruiting and grooming four girls to have sexual encounters with Epstein, who was then her boyfriend, between 1994 and 2004.

The daughter of the late British media magnate Robert Maxwell could be imprisoned until her late 70s, with possible credit for good behavior plus credit for the two years she has been jailed at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center.

Maxwell's appeal was expected, and Thursday's notice did not say what issues she will raise.

Her lawyers have said the conviction was tainted because of a lack of evidence Maxwell was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, that prosecutors waited too long to indict her, and that one juror failed to disclose he had been sexually abused as a child.

Nathan rejected these arguments in April.

The lawyers have also said jail officials would not let Maxwell prepare adequately for trial, and that Nathan should have used different guidelines when calculating a sentence.

Bobbi Sternheim, the Maxwell lawyer who filed the notice of appeal, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The appeals process will likely last several months or longer.

Epstein, 66, killed himself in August 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting his own trial for sex trafficking.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ghislaine-maxwell-appeals-conviction-20-year-sentence-epstein-case-2022-07-07/

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Australia the ‘root cause’ of breakdown with China, Wang Yi told Penny Wong

WILL GLASGOW - JULY 10, 2022

China’s Foreign Minister told Penny Wong the Coalition government was the “root cause” of Canberra and Beijing’s spectacular bilateral breakdown and said four things need to change to get the relationship “back on the right track”.

Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Australian counterpart that China was willing to “re-examine and re-calibrate” the bilateral relationship “based on mutual respect” at their meeting in Bali on Friday.

President Xi Jinping’s second most senior diplomat — after politburo member Yang Jiechi — blamed the Coalition government’s “irresponsible” words and deeds for the rupture in the relationship.

“The root cause of the difficulties in bilateral relations over the past few years was the former Australian government’s insisting on regarding China as a rival or even a threat, allowing its words and deeds being irresponsible against China,” Mr Wang said, according to China’s official newsagency Xinhua.

He expressed hope that the Australian side would “seize the current opportunity and take actions to improve bilateral relations”.

A seperate summary of the meeting issued by China’s foreign ministry said Australia should follow Beijing’s four-point plan for improving the relationship.

First, Mr Wang said Australia must treat China as a “partner rather than a rival”.

Second, the two countries must seek “common ground while shelving differences”.

Third, Australia must reject “manipulation by a third party”, he said, without naming the United States.

Fourth, both countries must build “a public support featuring positiveness and pragmatism”.

Friday’s meeting was the first time China’s Foreign Minister had communicated with his Australian counterpart in almost three years, following Beijing’s decision to freeze all ministerial relations after it became angry with the Morrison government.

Speaking to reporters in Bali hours after the meeting, Australia’s Foreign Minister attempted to lower expectations after the exchange.

“We’ve got a path to walk,” Senator Wong said.

She said Canberra was attempting to “stabilise” relations which would “take time and work”.

Public opinion in Australia has soured sharply towards China, as Beijing attempted to punish the Coalition government for calling for an independent inquiry into the origins of coronavirus.

A recent Lowy poll found that Australians’ trust in China had plunged to just 12 per cent, down from 52 per cent in 2018.

Only 11 per cent of Australians surveyed by Lowy said they had confidence in Mr Xi to do the right thing in international affairs, only marginally better than his good friend Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ally, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Mr Wang also defended China’s increased security presence in the Pacific in his meeting with Ms Wong, another point of ongoing tension between the two countries.

China’s Foreign Minister said those agreements — including a new police presence in Solomon Islands — was “at the request” of Pacific countries.

“At the same time, China has also carried out trilateral co-operation with Australia, New Zealand and other countries in the South Pacific region, which has achieved positive results,” he said, according to the Foreign Ministry statement.

During the election campaign, Senator Wong called Beijing’s new security agreement with the Solomons the “worst foreign policy blunder in the Pacific since the end of World War II”.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday said he would discuss China’s “more aggressive” behaviour with the region’s leaders at this week’s Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji.

After the election of Joe Biden in November 2020, China’s officials blamed the breakdown in the US-China relationship on the Donald Trump administration. More than a year and a half later, relations between the two superpowers remain extremely tense.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/australia-the-root-cause-of-breakdown-with-china-wang-yi-told-penny-wong/news-story/47cb9bba00d85f4150b088d60cffcab8

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China, Australia agree to smooth bilateral ties

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the China-Australia relationship is facing both challenges and opportunities, and its healthy development suits the common interests of both peoples and helps safeguard the peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region.

Xinhua - 2022-07-10

BALI, Indonesia, July 10 (Xinhua) – Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong here on Friday, with both sides agreeing to remove obstacles and bring bilateral ties back on the right track.

They met on the sidelines of the Group of 20 (G20) foreign ministers' meeting held in Bali, Indonesia.

Wang said that the China-Australia relationship is facing both challenges and opportunities, and its healthy development suits the common interests of both peoples and helps safeguard the peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region.

At the time of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, the Chinese side is willing to re-examine and re-calibrate bilateral relationship, based on mutual respect, and make efforts to bring it back on the right track, Wang said.

For her part, Wong said Australia and China are comprehensive strategic partners with extensive associations and frequent economic and trade exchanges, which have benefited the people of both countries.

The new Australian government will continue its one-China policy and hopes to take the advantage of the 50th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic relations to make Australia-China ties become more stable and mutually beneficial, she said.

Australia has no intention of expanding its differences with China, nor joining the containment of China, Wong noted.

She said her country will, by respecting each other and adopting a rational and pragmatic attitude, maintain constructive contacts and exchanges between the two sides, increase mutual trust, expand cooperation on the basis of equality, and work to remove existing barriers in bilateral relations.

During the meeting, Wang said the root cause of the difficulties in bilateral relations over the past few years was the former Australian government's insisting on regarding China as a rival or even a threat, allowing its words and deeds being irresponsible against China.

He expressed hope that the Australian side would seize the current opportunity and take actions to improve bilateral relations.

Wang called on the Australian side to add positive energy to the development of bilateral ties, with commitment to regarding China as a partner rather than a rival, seeking common ground while shelving differences, non-targeting and rejecting manipulation by a third party, and building a public support featuring positiveness and pragmatism.

The two sides also exchanged views on the affairs concerning Pacific Island countries.

https://english.news.cn/20220710/ce8f4e44d10e408e97e536f481dfd2fe/c.html

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China blames Coalition government for ‘difficulties’ with Australia, proposes four point plan

Eryk Bagshaw - July 10, 2022

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Nadi: Beijing has laid the blame for three years of spiralling relations with Australia on the former Coalition government, clearing the way for a more stable dialogue with Labor.

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday released details of Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s meeting with Penny Wong and outlined four proposals to get the relationship back on track.

“The root cause of the difficulties in China-Australia relations in the past few years is that the former Australian government insisted on treating China as an ‘adversary’ or even a ‘threat’, and adopted a series of irresponsible words and deeds against China,” Wang said.

“It is hoped that the Australian side will seize the current opportunity and take concrete actions to reshape its correct understanding of China, reduce negative assets and accumulate positive energy for the improvement of China-Australia relations.”

Coalition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham fired back on Sunday and accused Beijing of being dishonest. As trade minister in the Morrison government, Birmingham was responsible for responding to $20 billion in trade strikes by Beijing.

“It is widely acknowledged that the Chinese government has changed in recent years and Australia’s actions to protect our critical infrastructure or democratic institutions were entirely appropriate in the circumstances,” he said.

“To suggest that Australia acted in isolation would be a rewriting of history.”

Wang’s tone marks a significant departure from years of ongoing hostility between the two trading partners after the Coalition banned Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei from the 5G network in 2018, called for an inquiry into COVID-19 and criticised China’s human rights record in Xinjiang and Hong Kong. China responded by hitting Australia trade strikes on half a dozen industries and cutting off all ministerial contact for almost three years.

Wang did not address the substantive issues in the relationship in his readout, including the trade strikes on Australian businesses or the ongoing detention of Australians Yang Hengjun and Cheng Lei in Chinese jails.

Both issues were raised directly by Wong in her meeting with Wang on Friday, the first formal discussion between Australian and Chinese foreign ministers since September 2019.

Wang offered a vague four-point proposal to fix relations between the two governments.

“First, we must insist on treating China as a partner rather than an opponent,” he said.

“Second, we must adhere to the way of getting along with seeking common ground while reserving differences. Third, we must insist on not targeting third parties. Fourth, we must adhere to building a positive and pragmatic social foundation of public opinion.”

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Birmingham said China had breached the China-Australia Free Trade agreement by imposing sanctions. “Instead of setting conditions for Australia, the Chinese government should cease its unjustified punishment of Australian businesses,” he said.

Birmingham said the test of the new dialogue with Beijing will be in the outcome of the meetings.

“The test here over time is whether we do see an improvement in relation to the removal of trade sanctions,” he said.

“It will also be a test as to the treatment of individual Australian citizens who have been unfairly detained and charged in ways where we need to ensure they see transparent justice occur.”

The Australian public’s view of the Chinese government has collapsed under the weight of the ongoing diplomatic dispute. A Lowy Institute poll in June found that trust in China had fallen to 12 per cent, from 52 per cent in 2018.

The Chinese embassy has previously blamed negative media coverage of the world’s second-largest economy for the decline and demanded that the Australian government control independent think-tanks and news coverage to reverse public opinion.

“Australians see China’s foreign policy as a critical threat,” the executive director of the Lowy Insitute Michael Fullilove said at the release of the June report. “Their trust in China continues to fall, and in a dramatic shift, three-quarters of Australians see China as posing a military threat to Australia in the years to come.”

Wang said there was an opportunity for Australia and China to collaborate in the region ahead of the Pacific Island Forum leader’s meeting in Fiji this week. China’s ambitions in the Pacific are set to play a key part in the forum after it secured a security agreement with Solomon Islands but failed to push through a region-wide deal in May.

“China has carried out trilateral co-operation with Australia, New Zealand and other countries in the South Pacific region and achieved positive results,” said Wang. “China is willing to give play to its respective advantages to achieve a win-win.”

The Albanese government has maintained that the trade restrictions on Australian exports have to be removed if the relationship is to recover.

Wong said on Saturday that her meeting with Wang was the first step towards stabilising the relationship.

“We are a government and a nation that has made certain decisions on the basis of our national interest, our national security and our sovereignty and we won’t be resiling from those,” she said.

“But we do think it’s in our interests, and we would stay say in China’s interests, for the relationship to be stabilised. That’s going to take time, that’s going to take effort, that’s going to take work and it’s going to take some nuance.”

https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/china-blames-coalition-government-for-difficulties-with-australia-proposes-four-point-plan-20220710-p5b0iy.html

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Wang Yi Meets with Foreign Minister Huang Yingxian of Australia

2022-07-09

On July 8, 2022 local time, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met at request with Foreign Minister Huang Yingxian of Australia on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Bali.

Wang Yi said that China-Australia relations face both challenges and opportunities, and if healthy development can be achieved, it will serve the common interests of the two peoples and help maintain peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Australia, the Chinese side is willing to take the pulse, recalibrate and set sail for the bilateral relationship in the spirit of mutual respect, and strive to bring the bilateral relationship back on track.

Huang Yingxian said that Australia and China are comprehensive strategic partners with extensive ties and close economic and trade exchanges, bringing benefits to the two peoples. The Australian and New Zealand governments will abide by the purposes of the UN Charter, abide by international law and norms of international relations, and continue to pursue the one-China policy. It is hoped that the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries will serve as an opportunity to make bilateral relations more stable and mutually beneficial. In the face of some complex factors in Australia-China relations, Australia has no intention of amplifying the differences between the two sides or participating in the containment of China. It will maintain constructive contacts and exchanges between the two sides, enhance mutual trust, expand equal cooperation, and eliminate bilateral obstacles in the relationship.

Wang Yi said that the root cause of the difficulties in China-Australia relations in the past few years is that the former Australian government insisted on treating China as an "adversary" or even a "threat", and adopted a series of irresponsible words and deeds against China. The Chinese side attaches great importance to the Australian and New Zealand government's reaffirmation of its position as a comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, and appreciates the Australian side's adherence to the one-China policy. It is our shared responsibility to abide by the UN Charter and the basic norms governing international relations. It is hoped that the Australian side will seize the current opportunity and take concrete actions to reshape its correct understanding of China, reduce negative assets and accumulate positive energy for the improvement of China-Australia relations. First, we must insist on treating China as a partner rather than an opponent. Second, we must adhere to the way of getting along with seeking common ground while reserving differences. Third, we must insist on neither targeting nor subject to third parties. Fourth, we must adhere to building a positive and pragmatic social foundation of public opinion.

The two sides also communicated on the affairs of Pacific island countries. Wang Yi stressed that at the request of the island countries and according to the needs of the people of the island countries, China and the island countries have carried out equal exchanges and cooperation between sovereign countries. China has also carried out trilateral cooperation with Australia, New Zealand and other countries in the South Pacific region and achieved positive results. China is willing to give play to its respective advantages to achieve win-win and multi-win.

https://www.mfa.gov.cn/wjbzhd/202207/t20220709_10718039.shtml

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Wong, Wang meeting in Bali was no ‘reset’

WILL GLASGOW - JULY 10, 2022

At least China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi didn’t berate Penny Wong in front of a media pack in Bali. Her predecessors weren’t always so lucky.

Back in 2013, Wang exploded at Julie Bishop after she expressed mild criticism over Beijing’s declaration of an air defence identification zone in the disputed East China Sea.

“It felt like an ambush,” Bishop told me last year.

Wang’s outburst was extraordinary back in December 2013. One senior Australian foreign affairs official said he had “never in 30 years encountered such rudeness”.

It marked the beginning of a new period: the era of the Wolf Warrior diplomat.

Beijing’s diplomatic corps — “China’s Civilian Army”, as they refer to themselves — have always been assertive. However, eruptions of the sort Bishop experienced had become uncommon in the decades before Xi Jinping took office in 2013.

Now they are routine.

The China that Foreign Minister Wong and the Albanese government are dealing with considers such tantrums a legitimate diplomatic tool.

Another anti-diplomatic tool of Xi’s China is the total cessation of ministerial contact when things get difficult, as it did for almost three years with the Morrison government.

On Friday, in a sideline meeting at the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Bali, Wang finally deemed to speak to his Australian counterpart. Of course that is a good thing.

“It’s a first step for both our nations,’’ Senator Wong said after the meeting.

The Chinese, for their part, took more than 24 hours to give their account, as they waited to see what the Australian government said first.

Minutes before midnight on Saturday, Foreign Minister Wang gave his version in a statement, in which he said the “root cause” of the breakdown was the Coalition government’s “irresponsible words and deeds”.

“[Mr Wang] expressed hope that the Australian side would seize the current opportunity and take actions to improve bilateral relations,” China’s Foreign Ministry said in the statement.

Beijing tried a similar strategy with the Biden administration, putting all the blame for the US-China breakdown on Donald Trump and his team. More than 18 months on, US-China relations remain terrible.

Ahead of the meeting, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman explained what Beijing wanted.

“A reset requires concrete actions,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian instructed.

That might be true, but Canberra is not after a “reset”. The goal, as Foreign Minister Wong explained, is to “stabilise” relations with China.

That is a good description of the difficult task. The Albanese government wants to put a floor under the tattered relationship.

Zhao may not have got the memo, but talk of another “reset” is an anathema in Canberra. Australia’s relations with China have already been reset. That happened in the Turnbull government, was furthered by the Morrison government and now continues in the Albanese era.

Banning Huawei from Australia’s 5G network, passing foreign interference legislation to limit Chinese government-backed activity in Australia, working with friends and partners to defend the international rules based system that Beijing is putting under stress — that was the reset.

And to be fair, it is understandable it enraged our biggest trading partner.

China has changed under Xi Jinping. But so, in response, has Australia. No wonder many in Beijing have whiplash.

Less than eight years ago, after President Xi addressed the Australian parliament, Tony Abbott lauded what he had heard as the Chinese leader’s commitment to make the People’s Republic of China “fully democratic” by 2050.

To put it politely, members of Australia’s political class were, at least until 2015, stunningly naive about the reality of China. Not anymore.

Good relations between the two countries are impossible right now. That is not the fault of Australian diplomacy. It is a function of deep and wide disagreements — many of which were raised by Wong in her meeting with Wang.

And how could Australia have good relations with a country that treats communication with its Foreign Minister as a concession, rather than just normal behaviour?

After the 2017-2022 reset, Australia-China relations deteriorated to an appalling state. The goal for the Albanese government is to try to transform an appalling Australia-China relationship into a bad Australia-China relationship or, if things go better than expected, a fraught Australia-China relationship.

Forget good. Work towards less bad.

Even that won’t be easy, but the meeting in Bali was a step in the right direction.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/wong-wang-meeting-in-bali-was-no-reset/news-story/27bf40692a1defa8e20163cd5d4223b8

https://twitter.com/wmdglasgow/status/1545592854969745409

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Exclusive: Pacific Islands Forum crisis as Kiribati withdraws

Barbara Dreaver - 10 July 2022

1News can reveal Kiribati has withdrawn from the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) with immediate effect, plunging the regional body in to crisis.

The news comes despite increased efforts by island leaders over the past few days to persuade the country to stay.

Kiribati was one of five Micronesian nations which announced it would be leaving the forum last year, after feeling sidelined by bigger countries.

In a leaked letter to Secretary General of the forum, Kiribati President, Taneti Maamau said the country had decided to leave due to four key reasons.

These included the regions "reluctance" to address concerns over the appointment of Cook Islander, Henry Puna to the secretary general role, despite it being promised to Micronesia.

Concerns were also raised over reform packages made under the Suva agreement last month, which aimed to restore political unity and encourage Micronesian countries to remain in the forum. The Kiribati President said his country did not sign the deal.

“There was never a Micronesian Presidents' Summit (MPS) caucus decision on the PIF reform packages that Kiribati was part of, and particularly an MPS collective decision to return to the PIF”, he said.

The President also requested for the forum to be deferred, due to it coinciding with Kiribati National day, but said this request was never considered or acknowledged.

“Solidarity and unity as a region is dependent on how we treat each other with profound respect and understanding,” Maamau said.

The news of the island nation's withdrawal has shocked other Pacific leaders.

1News revealed the departure to Niuean Premier, Dalton Tagelagi, who said he was “sad to hear” of its exit, and “can only pray for and comfort Kiribati”.

Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister, Simon Kofe said he hopes the country will reconsider its decision.

“I think it's critical because the way we operate in the forum is that we want to reach consensus on all issues and if one of our members is not happy with that we have to keep trying our hardest to get them on board”.

Official sources told 1News Kiribati has become increasingly isolated and has refused to engage at a diplomatic level.

There are growing suspicions Beijing is behind the country’s exit, with Kiribati strategically important to China due to nearby US Military installations and marine resources.

Massey University lecturer, Anna Powles said having an ally outside of the forum would benefit China.

“There are checks and balances that exist within regionalism that are incredibly important for ensuring the stability of the wider Pacific family. Now to be outside those mechanisms it would be a benefit for a country like China”.

Nauru has also confirmed it will not attend due to a Covid-19 outbreak on the island, while the Marshall Islands will miss the forum due to legal issues.

The 51st Pacific Island Forum will begin tomorrow and run to July 15 in Fiji’s capital, Suva.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/07/10/exclusive-pacific-islands-forum-crisis-as-kiribati-withdraws/

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Prof Nicola Spurrier: SA businesses urged to consider masks, work-from-home mandates

SA businesses have been urged to consider imposing mask rules and re-introducing work from home arrangements, as Covid cases climb once again.

Andrew Hough - July 10, 2022

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South Australian businesses have been urged to consider imposing their own mask rules to stop Covid-19 spreading, as a third Omicron wave sweeps the country.

Chief public health officer Professor Nicola Spurrier said employers and firms should start thinking about business continuity plans and about how to protect their employees.

The calls emerged as an urgent review into the country’s vaccine program was launched and lifesaving Covid-19 antivirals expanded.

The country’s emergency medical panel, the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee, on Friday urged employers to consider imposing work-from-home conditions.

Prof Spurrier – an AHPPC member – on Sunday endorsed the move, saying businesses should look at strategies including work-from-home and mask rules as Covid cases rise once again in SA.

“That might mean that employers might want to bring in a mask policy over this period of time as well,” she said.

“And certainly have a look at your business continuity plans because you don’t want your whole team wiped out with Covid or indeed flu at this time of the year.

“There are some businesses where you can’t work from home. (But) there are many businesses who have found that it’s actually very productive to have people working from home.

“Many employees… find that fits into their lifestyle, and they are as productive and they’re able to also, you know, look after their kids and such like.”

The state government has, however, ruled out imposing any new restrictions or mask mandates on top of those that already exist in hospitals, nursing homes and public transport.

Health Minister Chris Picton said it was more appropriate for businesses to come up with their own mandates.

“What we’re seeing now is a phase of the pandemic where businesses are making decisions in terms of what’s best for their workplace, what’s best for their business continuity,” he said.

“Many businesses are facing issues where as more people test positive, then that has issues in terms of their business.

“I think we will see businesses take measures themselves to look at how we can make sure that our workplace is protected, how we can make sure that our businesses continue.”

SA Health will on Monday expand access to a fourth, or “winter”, vaccine dose, as authorities grapple with a surge of new variants BA.4 and BA.5 that current vaccinations fail to protect against.

More than 236,000 South Australians aged 50-64 will be eligible including Prof Spurrier, who will get her fourth jab on Monday. A further 255,000 adults older than 30 are also eligible.

Authorities have reopened several vaccination clinics, including those in Rundle Mall’s Myer Centre and at Enfield, while a pop-up facility is planned for the parklands.

Under new guidelines, which are based on updated advice from Australia’s top immunisation panel, adults older than 50 are strongly recommended to get their fourth jab.

Those aged between 30 and 49 are also being urged to have an updated Covid-19 vaccine dose – despite many in these age groups shunning a third booster jab.

Figures show more than 174,000 fourth doses have been administered but a third of eligible adults have failed to get the winter jab.

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‘This will save lives’: Thousands to gain access to Covid treatments

Meanwhile, an urgent review into the country’s Covid vaccine program has been launched, as thousands of South Australians gain access to lifesaving Covid-19 drugs.

Federal Health Minister Mark Butler announced former Commonwealth health chief Jane Halton would investigate procurement adequacy.

The review, which is expected to report back within weeks, will also explore supplies of antivirals as the eligibility is expanded.

“I’ve asked Jane Halton to conduct an urgent review into the adequacy of our existing vaccine and medicine procurement arrangements for Covid to make sure they fit for purpose for the rest of this year and into next year,” Mr Butler said in Adelaide on Sunday.

“Up until now, it was very, very difficult to get access to these (antiviral) medicines in spite of the fact that the former government to their credit, bought 1.3 million doses of those medicines.

“But up until now, they’ve essentially been sitting on shelves in warehouses instead of out there doing their job to prevent severe disease.”

The Advertiser this week revealed how difficult it was for South Australians to access the lifesaving antivirals.

Every person over the age of 70 will be able to get a script from their GP for the oral treatments at an affordable rate under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme from Monday, while the risk factor threshold for younger people has also been lowered.

Under the expansion, Australians over 50 can access the drugs if they have two or more risk factors, such as obesity, asthma, heart conditions or diabetes, with the age lowered to 30 and over for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The oral antivirals, Lagevrio and Paxlovid, have been shown to be effective in the early treatment of mild to moderate Covid-19 in adults who are at increased risk of progression to hospitalisation.

Previously, the antivirals were available only to people aged over 75 with at least one underlying condition, or 65 and over with two risk factors. Australians 18 and over who are “moderately to sev­erely immunocompromised” were also eligible and this ­remains unchanged.

New Covid case numbers in SA have been hovering around 4000 a day over the past week.

SA Health last Tuesday said new modelling forecast a rise in hospitalisations of people suffering only from Covid from fewer than 100 cases to more than 150 within three weeks.

Mr Picton welcomed the expansion and criticised the slowness of decisions from an expert pharmacy panel.

“I think this decision is clearly going to save people’s lives,” he said of the antiviral expansion.

“And we need to encourage as many people as possible to get access to these antivirals.

“The previous rules were far too restrictive.

“These new rules are really targeted in terms of where we know the greatest impact of people ending up with severe issues having to go to hospital or the risk of death is and that’s people who are in the elderly population.”

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/coronavirus/access-to-lifesaving-covid-antiviral-drugs-expanded/news-story/baf3a75ef58afd1f6fc3cbc700ce22aa

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Labor MPs and experts urge action over Victoria’s high COVID death rate

Paul Sakkal - July 10, 2022

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Victorian Labor MPs and epidemiologists have urged the government to do more to lower the state’s nation-leading COVID-19 death rate, while some suggest the Andrews government is putting politics ahead of public health by avoiding discussion about the pandemic.

Six Labor MPs, including a current and former minister, said the impending Omicron sub-variant wave necessitates increased public health messaging on things like ventilation, mask-wearing and vaccine boosters.

However, several other Labor MPs argue the government’s language has not changed and it has minimal ability to influence the behaviour of a weary public, three years into the pandemic.

Public attention is turning once again to COVID-19, as new BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants spawn a winter wave of infections. The threat spurred the nation’s chief health officers, acting under the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee, to say on Friday that, “without increased community and public health actions”, cases could rise as dramatically as they did in January when Omicron overwhelmed the testing system.

The number of COVID-19 related deaths per day in Australia, as a proportion of the population, is significantly higher than in the US, UK, France or Canada, according to statistics from Our World in Data. Within Australia, more Victorians are dying than in any state; an average of 18 per day, compared to 12.7 in NSW.

University of Melbourne Professor Nancy Baxter said political leaders were displaying a lack of political will to confront the new Omicron wave, which she said could strain Victoria’s already-overcrowded hospitals.

Baxter has been a regular voice for stronger health measures. She called on politicians to wear masks during indoor press conferences, to encourage Victorians to do the same.

While she did not propose sweeping new rules, Baxter said the government could encourage people to work from home and advise people to reduce the size of their indoor gatherings and ensure they happen in well-ventilated areas.

“If it is politically expedient to say the pandemic is over then it’s hard, until things get totally out of hand, to say anything different,” she said.

“We’re talking about it being endemic, but it always comes in waves. We need to have frank discussions about what happens when we move into the growth phases of these waves.”

A serving Labor minister, speaking anonymously to talk candidly about government policy, said governments around Australia were reluctant to make COVID mitigation a dominant part of their narrative because it invoked voters’ memories of lockdowns.

“We’re not the only ones in that basket, but an election around the corner [in November] is obviously a factor for the premier because the opposition hysterically leaps onto anything we say on this front,” she said. “[Messaging] may need to step up soon.”

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Discussing the impending wave, boosters and flu vaccinations on Friday, Industry Minister Ben Carroll conceded: “We do need to do a bit more work around communications, which we will do.” He ruled out an indoor mask mandate and lockdowns, which no expert or politician is advocating for.

But one backbencher said it was timely for the government to consider reintroducing rules, such as visitor caps at aged care homes and hospitals.

Another said he was “distressed” by the number of people dying.

“Everyone has taken their foot off the pedal and there would be value, even if these things remain voluntary, in strongly promoting the things we are accustomed to: distancing, ventilation, mask-wearing and vaccination.”

“Mask wearing is so spectacularly under-enforced on public transport. I frequently see tram drivers not wearing them. If we can’t get the workers to wear them, how can we make travellers do it?”

Deakin University epidemiologist Catherine Bennett said the Victorian government had failed to shift from top-down messaging early in the pandemic to community-empowering information about tools to manage risk.

Professor Bennett, who has often criticised Victoria’s COVID-19 policy settings, said the Victorian Health Department should be doing things like presenting data on how effective masks are at preventing infection.

“We need to get creative about engagement. We did that in vaccination and outbreak control. We need to be doing that again to understand what communities need to get them to keep wearing masks and doing other things,” she said.

“Yes it would help if the premier would lead by example, but we need more than that now. Does it have to be positive? Yes. We have to move away from fear. Public health messaging shouldn’t be about fear; it’s about giving people the info they need to feel like they can control risk.”

A state government spokeswoman said the Andrews government was continuing to protect public heath, “including through simple and common-sense restrictions,” by spending $2 million since the start of winter on information campaigns, including on boosters and managing COVID-19 at home.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/labor-mps-and-experts-urge-action-over-victoria-s-high-covid-death-rate-20220709-p5b0d0.html

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Paedophile schoolteacher David Harkess the third sex offender identified among WACA elite junior cricket coaches of the 1970s

Russell Jackson - 10 July 2022

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A paedophile schoolteacher whose victims were left suicidal from their abuse is the latest former cricket coach to be identified in an ABC Sport investigation of Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) elite junior squads of the 1970s and 1980s.

Warning: This article contains content that readers may find distressing

David "Harry" Harkess, who in 1989 was convicted of 55 counts of indecently dealing with 21 schoolboys, coached elite WACA under-16, under-15, under-14 and under-12 squads for five seasons from 1977-78 to 1981-1982.

ABC Sport understands WACA powerbrokers of the 1970s and 80s knew the nature of Harkess's conviction at the time it became public, but WACA chief executive Christina Matthews said the organisation's current leadership was not aware of Harkess's involvement at the WACA until contacted by ABC Sport.

Harkess's stint as a WACA junior coach overlapped with that of convicted sex offender Ian King, who coached WACA junior squads until at least 1977-78, and former WACA junior development officer and youth cricket council secretary Roy Wenlock, whose abuse of boys he had coaxed into "drinks boy" duties at the WACA was revealed by ABC Sport last month.

Wenlock's stint at the WACA lasted 29 years between 1979 and his death in 2007, but his sexual abuse of boys was only publicly revealed in 2012, as part of a West Australian parliamentary inquiry into sexual abuse of boys at Anglican hostels.

King is currently serving a 16-year jail sentence for his sexual abuse of boys in elite junior cricket squads administered by Cricket ACT. In 2006, a former Cricket ACT coaching colleague of King's told police that he and another coach had been warned by Western Australian counterparts upon King's arrival in Canberra that King had offended against boys in Western Australia.

Matthews said the WACA is taking the issue seriously and would consider options including a formal investigation of its elite junior programs of the 70s and 80s.

"We certainly have to think about how we look back and decide whether an investigation has to be undertaken," Matthews said.

"It's very, very sad and disappointing to hear that there may be further victims of sexual abuse out there. It's something we have to look into more deeply and get to the bottom of it.

"Again, I'm very sorry to anybody who suffered abuse while partaking in any WACA activities. I want to assure people that we have a lot of very strong, robust programs in place to make sure that can't happen now, and they're constantly being reviewed.

"That does not help survivors, but it does indicate that we've learned from the past and will continue to be stronger in the future."

In addition to his WACA coaching positions, Harkess, who died at 52 in 1999, also coached cricket, football and numerous others sports in the Perth suburbs of Mosman Park and Balga, and for many years in a West Australian wheatbelt town.

'Everyone's favourite uncle'

To associates on the West Australian cricket scene, David Alan Harkess was known as "Harry". To many of the hundreds of children he encountered in schools, churches and sports clubs around Western Australia, he was "Uncle Harry".

Decades after his abuse of children was revealed, Harkess is still described as a "Pied Piper" character within the communities he offended in. Survivors say he was a popular teacher and mentor who could instantly win the trust of any child he encountered.

But in May 1989, Harkess's life unravelled in Perth's Children's Court, where he pleaded guilty to 55 charges of indecently dealing with 21 boys from a small wheatbelt town in which he taught for seven years. Harkess was sentenced to 18 months in jail and minutes later attempted suicide in a holding cell, before being transported to Fremantle jail.

Newspaper reports at the time said at least four boys had been left suicidal by Harkess's abuse and others had suffered nightmares, psychological disorders and displayed symptoms of anorexia. The West Australian government was so fearful of the impact on the town that it sent a delegation of 12 psychologists to deal with the fallout.

At the time of Harkess's conviction, a gag order prevented media outlets from naming the town because the risk of identifying victims was too great. Harkess had abused at least one-third of the town's 100 boys.

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But even outside court there were also disturbing insights into Harkess's ability to cultivate support, groom parents and maintain a psychological hold on those who fell under his spell. A contingent of parents belonging to the town's Church of Christ community stepped forward in Harkess's defence, saying the town had "no hate for him".

"Children were his whole life," one mother said of Harkess.

"He spent so much time with them, coaching junior teams in football, cricket, basketball, hockey and playing and coaching senior teams as well."

In 1987, the town had named him its citizen of the year. In court, Harkess's pastor described him as "everyone's favourite uncle".

Yet other sections of the town's community had long harboured suspicions about Harkess and were "disgusted" when supporters flocked to him.

"The general community feeling is that we do not want to see Harkess here ever," one resident told The West Australian.

'Moulding teenage boys into gentlemen'

According to WACA annual reports, Harkess was appointed to his first WACA coaching positions for the 1977-78 season — a period in which, survivors told ABC Sport, he was sexually abusing schoolboys placed in his care.

In that summer alone, Harkess coached three WACA junior teams: the under-15 state squad, plus the under-16 and under-14 WACA Metropolitan teams.

In 1978-79, Harkess was appointed WACA under-16 coach, replacing Ian King — another coach later convicted of child sex offences. In his first year in that role, Harkess led the under-16s on an interstate tour to Rockhampton.

In a note of thanks for his efforts, the WACA annual report stated that Harkess had "moulded 14 teenage boys into a group of young gentlemen, who won the accolades of all who came in contact with them".

In subsequent seasons, Harkess would lead the WACA under-16s on numerous interstate trips, including to Melbourne and Launceston for national carnivals.

A husky diabetic who exaggerated his playing feats, as a teenager Harkess had only been the scorer for the first XI at his Perth private school, Christ Church Grammar.

As a senior cricketer, his main claim to fame was as the unknown left-arm paceman who clean bowled England captain Mike Smith when the 1965-66 Ashes tourists took a net session in Perth. Otherwise, Harkess found his level in Nedlands CC's thirds and fourths teams.

As coach of the Nedlands under-12 and under-14 teams in the first half of the 1970s, Harkess was a bigger hit — so popular with the boys and their parents that his arrest and imprisonment almost 20 years later stunned them.

But others on the Perth cricket scene still wonder how, other than by nepotism, Harkess could have risen so far in WACA coaching ranks. During Harkess's elite coaching years, his father Alan, a prominent Perth businessman, was a notable sponsor of the WACA's junior programs via his Homecraft Nationwide stores.

WACA annual reports of the time confirm annual WACA 'player of the year' awards for each junior age group — trophies and coveted bats — were sponsored by Homecraft Nationwide Stores and presented by either Alan or David Harkess. As a naming rights sponsor, the company's name and logo appeared on WACA junior competition shields.

Speaking to ABC Sport, one former WACA elite junior who received one of the WACA's junior 'player of the year' awards said the brand new bats were often not available on the WACA's annual presentation night, but would instead be delivered to the boys' homes by David Harkess.

And one survivor of Harkess's abuse told ABC Sport that Harkess used brand new 'SP' brand cricket bats to groom boys at local club training sessions, allowing only select boys to use them.

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'This fellow had a great rapport with the children'

The WACA was not the only Western Australian institution that Harkess infiltrated for a sustained period. Legal sources confirmed to ABC Sport that survivors of Harkess's abuse in primary school settings are considering suing the West Australian Department of Education.

At the time of Harkess's conviction, the only offences to be publicly aired were those that occurred between 1982 and the end of 1988, the point at which Harkess was exiled from the wheatbelt. But survivors of Harkess's abuse told ABC Sport he had been offending against schoolboys since at least the mid-1970s.

In response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by ABC Sport, Western Australia's Department of Education confirmed that between 1977 and 1989, Harkess taught at three other government schools — Balga North Primary between 1977 and 1980, Carlisle Primary School in 1982 and Banksia Park Primary School in 1989.

In his four years teaching at Balga North, survivors confirmed, Harkess had sexually abused boys during Friday night "sleepover" events the school permitted Harkess to host on school grounds.

Survivors said the schools ignored other obvious red flags about the "king of the kids" teacher, including his use of lollies and presents to groom children until they were "literally hanging off him" and his standing invitation for children to visit him at home and borrow videos from his film library.

Survivors told ABC Sport that most weekends, Harkess would drive children around in an 11-seater minibus that was his personal vehicle, taking boys on trips to the local speedway and WAFL football games — excursions on which, they say, boys were sexually abused.

Among those familiar with the West Australian Education Department's decision to accept a transfer request from Harkess in December 1988 — when his offending in the wheatbelt town was known — and grant him one final teaching posting at the beginning of 1989, there is still a sense of anger.

An education source with knowledge of Harkess's appointment to Banksia Park Primary School told ABC Sport the school was not warned about Harkess's rampant offending at his previous school and only became aware of his impending court appearance when an anonymous police officer tipped off the school.

By then, Harkess had taught at the school for the entire first term, instantly winning the affection of children.

"This fellow had a great rapport with the children," a social worker who counselled Harkess's victims told the Sydney Morning Herald in 1989.

"It cannot be said he was a monster in the mythical sense of the word.

"This rapport explains why the offences went on so long."

''Do you have more information on this story? Contact jackson.russell@abc.net.au''

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-10/paedophile-teacher-david-harkess-third-sex-offender-waca-70s-80s/101219542

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Australian law enforcer suspected of being mafia informant

One of Australia’s top law enforcers is under investigation amid suspicions he was allegedly secretly working with the mafia and may have compromised some of our biggest crime cases.

Charles Miranda - July 10, 2022

One of Australia’s top law enforcers is under investigation, with suspicions he is a mafia informant and over decades may have compromised some of Australia’s most notorious organised crime cases.

News Corp Australia has confirmed the officer has recently resigned after being advised of the high-level investigation into his activities. No charges have been laid.

The allegations have now been handed to the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity, a government statutory body tasked with weeding out corruption within the Department of Home Affairs and agencies including the AFP, Australian Border Force and other law enforcement bodies.

ACLEI is looking at dozens of potential criminal cases that may have failed during his tenure as a senior officer working for and with multiple law enforcement bodies across Australia and whether he had a hand in their collapse.

There are strong fears too other senior figures within law enforcement, the judiciary and politics might also have been influenced by the man and his associates. There is a list of names.

News Corp has unsuccessfully attempted to contact him.

ACLEI has confirmed there is an investigation currently under way into alleged systemic corruption issues.

“ACLEI is conducting an investigation into an alleged corruption issue that relates to a former law enforcement staff member’s association with organised crime while they were a member of a law enforcement agency,” a spokesperson told News Corp Australia.

“As a matter of course, once the Integrity Commissioner has provided a report on a completed investigation to the Attorney-General and head of agency, she will decide whether it is in the public interest to publish a report on the ACLEI website.”

It is understood the former officer’s career spans as far back as being involved in elements of the police investigation into the 1989 assassination of AFP assistant commissioner Colin Winchester.

He may have had a role in the carriage of the case that seven years later would see a public servant David Eastman wrongfully convicted and spend 19 years in jail until a retrial found a miscarriage of justice and questioned the validity of the AFP’s probe.

As detailed in an exclusive report on Saturday, elements of Italian organised crime were overlooked or not fully pursued by the AFP which instead built a case just around Eastman.

News Corp Australia has learned the former officer’s identity came to light only as recently as 2019 when another law enforcement agency, believed to be ASIO, uncovered apparent close associations to known Italian organised crime figures.

He would openly meet them in bars and restaurants, unaware he was being watched.

Specifically, those figures belong to the ’Ndrangheta criminal syndicate from Calabria, considered one of the most powerful crime groups in the world.

The AFP was informed about the issue and launched an investigation into the numerous criminal cases including murders and drug plots involving some of the biggest names in organised crime whose briefs may have crossed the man’s desk.

https://www.thechronicle.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/crimeinfocus/australian-law-enforcer-suspected-of-being-mafia-informant/news-story/ec1959e873f4f4f297e5e5c6c282097e

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David Eastman’s lawyers claim AFP ignored mafia links to Colin Winchester murder

The lawyers who represented David Eastman – the man wrongly convicted of top cop Colin Winchester’s murder have hit out at the AFP and their handling of claims it was a mafia hit.

Charles Miranda - July 9, 2022

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An internal report by the Italian anti-mafia Carabinieri police circulating in the public prosecutor’s office in Rome to use for local gangster prosecutions sought to describe the activities of the ’Ndrangheta beyond Europe’s shores.

It was detailed, expansive and, towards the end, included a curious addition about Australia that should have set alarm bell ringing at AFP headquarters in Canberra.

The 2014 report described how the mafia had infiltrated Australian organised crime at all levels and had been responsible for at least three high-profile murders in the country: Griffith anti-drugs campaigner Donald MacKay in 1977, National Crime Authority officer Geoffrey Bowen in 1994, and the 1989 slaying of AFP assistant commissioner Colin Winchester.

As far as the AFP was concerned at that time, the Winchester execution had nothing to do with the mafia but rather a disgruntled former Treasury official David Eastman who had already served 19 years jail for a crime he did not commit.

The basis of the Italian police claim, which was stated nonchalantly as fact, dated back to the time of Mr Winchester’s murder outside his Canberra home in January 1989.

Five months after the murder, Italian police told the AFP that according to wire taps two suspected assassins dubbed “The Shepherds” with known ties to both the Italian and Australian mafia had been dispatched to carry out the crime.

A cursory check by the commonwealth arm of the AFP, as opposed to the ACT branch, found the men did arrive, did have links to known organised crime heavyweights involved in the drug trade, and at least one could be placed in the Canberra district at the time.

But by then the ACT AFP investigators, acrimonious to their commonwealth counterparts, decided they had their suspect and other hypothesis were just that.

To Italian police and prosecutors, the conviction of a mentally troubled Eastman with no ties to organised crime was a stunning result, but was an issue for the Australian courts.

There had always been a stench about the prosecution of former public servant Eastman, who was sentenced to life in 1985 before an independent inquiry found a miscarriage of justice and recommended the sentenced be quashed and he should be pardoned.

A hint of how this prosecution proceeded peppered the 2014 inquiry by judge Brian Martin who found it “deeply flawed” at all turns, notably the questionable forensic evidence presented and critical material held back from Eastman’s defence team.

It also pointed to the AFP’s “blind spot” attitude to pursuing the apparent mafia clues described as a “reluctance” to thoroughly and impartially reinvestigate alternative hypothesis, the strength of which Justice Martin declared remained unknown.

That reluctance flowed from a “policy or stance” to not “disturb” the AFP’s earlier securing of the Eastman conviction.

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An internal AFP memo from the time also points to the PR disaster and likely criticism levelled at key AFP members that could sue should any further action be taken on information related to the mafia and suspicions be publicly revealed.

Former Eastman lawyer Terry O’Donnell said the mafia lines were never truly pursued because on “day three” after Mr Winchester’s murder, investigating officers decided it had to be Eastman.

“They were not interested in the Italians and certainly by 1992 they completely discounted it … they had Eastman in their sights and they were after him,” Mr O’Donnell said.

He said the fact there was now no one charged or convicted of the murder of a top police officer – and so much relevant new and past evidence had not been fully examined – demanded a new probe should be launched.

“I would just be interested to see how far (the AFP) will now go,” he said, adding he could help police now if they needed.

Another lawyer at one stage involved in the Winchester case, Bernard Collaery, agreed the police could not afford to have a chief murdered with no one looking at who may have done it.

“Eastman was demonised and exploited in a very cynical fashion,” Mr Collaery said.

“He (Eastman) was already unfavourably known to police for his behaviour at a time when mental health issues tended to enter the justice system more than they do now in our more enlightened era.

“The second thing is there was no serious investigation of the Italian connection which was obvious, prominent and clearly a matter that had to be investigated fully and proved or disproved. The assistance sought from the Carabinieri was quite limited, and the story of the two ‘Shepherds’ was treated as a folkloric issue and belittled internally.”

The whole link to Mr Winchester and the mafia stemmed from an informant who approached the AFP with details about the Calabrian mafia asking him to grow cannabis crops in Bungendore in NSW, to which Mr Winchester and the NSW Bureau of Criminal Intelligence hatched a plan to authorise the crop in a bid to gather intelligence on the network of growers. Operation Seville, as it was dubbed, allowed the informant to tell the mafia that he was paying corrupt police to ensure the crops would not be seized.

The operation collapsed after a suspect with the cannabis haul was arrested in Victoria. He became an informant and revealed the Calabrians had ordered the killing of Donald MacKay as well as other details related to the Bungendore crops and Italian organised crime.

https://www.thechronicle.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/crimeinfocus/david-eastmans-lawyers-claim-afp-ignored-mafia-links-to-colin-winchester-murder/news-story/9c9a654db4eb8254353ceb6811e34e78

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Remember anons, the Q posting on /hivemind/ is fake cause Jim Watkins says so.

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Solomon Islands blocks Australian aid workers

BEN PACKHAM - JULY 10, 2022

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Solomon Islands has blocked Australian aid workers from ­entering the country as it opens its doors to Chinese advisers and praises Beijing as a “worthy partner” in supporting its development.

As Anthony Albanese prepares to attend the Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji this week, five Australian advisers are being denied visas by Honiara.

At the same time, Solomon Islands has granted entry to at least six Chinese advisers under its security agreement with Beijing.

“We will deal with such issues diplomatically,” the Prime Minister told The Australian.

Mr Albanese, who will have his first face-to-face meeting with Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare at the forum leaders’ summit, said he would tell Pacific counterparts that Australian aid “comes with no strings attached”.

The 51st forum leaders’ meeting is shaping up to be a disrupted one, after it was revealed on Sunday that Kiribati – which switched its diplomatic allegiances from Taiwan to China just days after Solomon Islands in 2019 – had withdrawn from the regional group­ing. The move, which follows anger by the forum’s five-­nation Melanesian bloc over its influence in the forum, fractures regional unity as China attempts to seal a wider security agreement with Pacific Island nations.

The Australian aid workers have been employed to work on official development assistance programs to support governance and economic reforms in the Solomons.

One adviser has been in limbo waiting for a visa since March; the other four applied in June.

It’s understood the advisers’ status has been queried by Solomon Islands under its 1994 development co-operation agreement with Australia, on the grounds they would work across several government agencies rather than a specific ministry.

Such visas would normally be approved quickly so the advisers could begin their work.

It’s feared the rebuff is part of a wider shift by Solomon Islands as Mr Sogavare – a long-time critic of Australia – aligns his country more closely with China, after his security deal with Beijing.

Mr Albanese will depart for Fiji on Wednesday – a week after returning home from a major trip to meet NATO leaders in Madrid, repair relations with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris and pledge fresh Australian support to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.

He said NATO’s new strategic road map calling out China’s efforts to create “strategic dependencies‘’ would provide an important backdrop to the forum. “It is important our ­Pacific Island neighbours know – I’m sure they’re conscious of it – that the world is concerned about the implications behind some of the geostrategic competition in our region,” he said.

He said he expected to be well received at the meeting after his government’s move to ratchet up the ambition of Australia’s climate change policies.

Pacific leaders would “make their own decisions” about which countries they partnered with, Mr Albanese said, “and we will treat them with respect”.

“And part of our message to the Pacific … is that our support for the Pacific including aid, including action on climate change, and our support for maritime security, comes with no strings attached,” he said.

“It’s part of the way we engage with the world.”

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The withdrawal of Kiribati, revealed by New Zealand’s 1News, presents fresh challenges for Australia, which is relying on regional unity to keep China at bay.

The government was heartened in May by the rejection by 10 Pacific nations of a proposed ­regional security agreement with China, on the grounds the Pacific forum needed to consider it before a decision could be reached.

China, which is a forum “dialogue partner” but not a member like Australia, has not been invited to the summit.

But in an audacious diplomatic move, Beijing has invited the same Pacific states to attend a virtual meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday – the same day as the forum leaders’ meeting.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Solomon Islands had granted entry to Australian aid workers during the pandemic but advisers were now facing delays. “Currently, visa arrangements for five specific advisers are awaiting Solomon Islands approval,” a spokeswoman said.

Solomon Islands Opposition Leader Matthew Wale said Mr Sogavare had previously “slowed down” the entry of US diplomatic and project staff, “so I am not surprised he is making it hard for Australian advisers”.

“He has made himself a puppet of China,” Mr Wale said.

After last year’s violent protests targeting government buildings and Chinese businesses, Beijing sent at least six security advisers to Honiara, together with donated equipment, to help train local police in Chinese riot control tactics.

Mr Sogavare, in a speech last Thursday to mark Solomon Islands’ Independence Day, praised China’s “genuine intention” to be a ”worthy partner” in his country’s development.

He did not specifically mention Australia in the speech but, after months of tensions between the countries, declared that “relationships at times can sour”.

New Zealand’s Anne-Marie Brady, an expert on China’s interests in the Pacific, said the Chinese Communist Party was “running Sogavare like a puppet on a string”.

“Xi Jinping seems to be demanding a deliverable on the ­Pacific before the 20th party congress (later this year),” Professor Brady said.

“We will see very soon if the existing Pacific institutions like the PIF and (the region’s) partnership with the US, Australia, NZ and other states can withstand the pressure.”

In a recent phone call, Mr Sogavare assured Mr Albanese that Australia remained his country’s “security partner of choice”.

Australian and US officials remain concerned Solomon Islands’ security agreement with China could open the way for a Chinese base in the country.

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape will attend the forum, which falls during the voting period for the national election. His main leadership rival, former prime minister Peter O’Neill, said he had information Mr Marape was attending “to push for China’s inclusion in this important regional group”.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/solomon-islands-blocks-australian-aid-workers/news-story/bf0857f97ffab01b3a354c2730fe702c

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BREAKING: Bannon announces he will subpoena Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff to testify at his trial

https://truthsocial.com/@JackPosobiec/posts/108482862887274507

anons.. it's summer!

don't forget to go out, have some beers,

make new frens, meet a nice girl,

be positive and have lots of fun!

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He's reloading the BDU dispenser with candy.

On the ground it's quite vunerable

>>16457616

NEVER GIVE IN, NEVER GIVE UP, ANONS !!!!

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Speaking about "wealth transfer".

KEK!

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>I've lost my cat.

He did not make it to the other side, could you not have given him some help instead of filming this show?

HAPPENING: CATEGORY 5 CHIMPOUT ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN KANSAS CITY

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>Two tors id showing up as one poster

Yes, but hasn't TOR had the kibosh put on it here? So, one was a Trip Code 000000 post…the other post, had no Trip Code.

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My neighbor across the street has shingles. Which vaccine gives you the shingles ??

>>16569545

The shills really hate this post, that makes itnotable

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>Decoding Scavino fist bumb5:5

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how much?

>>16569395

What division OP will you run next I wonder? Everyone can see it's just a matter of time before you are crushed. Will it be tonight? It doesn't seem like you are sleeping well.

>>16562090

Maybe you should take some friendly advice.

I've had more notables than you've had hot dinners son.

I am not saying that collecting information is nothing but it equates to nothing if the information just sits there doing jack shit.

Go back to jacking off to teenage girl anime you fucking amateur.

If you want to follow this blindly PAST November then God help you.

Q has my support till November. Which adds up to around nearly 7 years of Trust. If there are no favourable results then I'm out of here and other Anons should reconsider what they're doing with their time.

>>16604904

Diesel fuel being replaced with corn diesel….huge diesel refinery was just completed near me

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1540184006800551937

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>>16561361

Have you ever passed gas then lit a match by your ass crack?

That is real gas lighting.

>>16458332

that will work well, just like it did at school board meetings

>>16584420

hate crime

fireworks are triggering

>>16471537

andonly

Needs fixing

>>16492098

Don't you know anyone irl who can help you?

>>16584036

I spent a lot of time in Germany. They are very smart but they are worried. They try to hide it. 'They are a great people, very friendly and quick to accept. (I had left Germany and was back home when I watched the Middle East refugees come into the Munich Hauptbahnhov and the Germans lining the platform with everything from food to children's toys and diapers. And here we are! The Germans got fucked again. The U.S. and the other NATO countries are going to make the German people suffer like never before. There's nothing new under the sun.

>>16400766

Need to get Jim's newsletter for all this to make perfect sense.

looks like great movie

How's that caravan doing?

>>16433585

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/22/trump-kemp-perdue-georgia/

forgot pic

>>16491734

Hard to imagine the entitlement these people think they have. Do this to my child? You're done.

UNBELIEVABLE WHAT (YOU) ARE DOING TO ME AT THE END OF THIS DAMN SCHOOL, IT'S DESTROYING MY ENTIRE WILL TO DO ANYTHING WITH THIS DAMN KNOWLEDGE, FUCKING USELESS!!!

>>16416104

…The original is far better.

>>16533906

Filter early.

>>16482399

>do not forget

Crimes against Children

Crimes against Humanity

>>16449231

Do you want me to go to sleep

>>16534615 (me)

But couple spoilers, do you know what Operation Paperclip is/was, what Planned Parenthood was originally set up for, or what Bill gates father did. Or who always dies first in Hollywood movies, who got fed midazolam and remdesivir in the first covid lockdowns, and why do certain people like to gather pineal glands from different species. And what does young cerebrospinal fluid to do older rats. I don't know where to start with the antarctic…

>>16578394

19? Not buying it

youtube downloader?

>>16539506

tyb

>>16570676

Musk won't be back until he can find his way back…he was trying out a new tesla device and got stuck in the future, Elon finds himself, leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap, will be the leap home…

>>16492924

That's funny.

>>16466172

>QAnoners are not anons

Whats a QAnoner?

Fun Fact

There's also aJames Goldstonthat works forGeorge Soros

James A. Goldston

Open Society Justice Initiative

James A. Goldston is the executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, an operational program of theOpen Society Institutethat promotes rights-based law reform and the development of legal capacity worldwide.

An accomplished lawyer, he has held positions at the European Roma Rights Center in Budapest, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina, the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Human Rights Watch.

A graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School, he has written widely on issues of human rights and racial discrimination. He has engaged in law reform fieldwork and investigated rights abuses in more than thirty countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

PB

>>16413302, >>16413665, Insurrection Week! Bannon vs. Pelosi and Epstein is BACK - youtube robert Gouveia video and digs, anons summary.

Post to see?

>>16562612

none know

delusion, you know

they are Blinded to the real

>>16546358

yu wunt perm hirt with kebord and maus huh snukems?

Because Physical wounds Heal!

kekitty

He added, in a letter to Trump that was later publicized, “On Election Day and afterwards, our Office received various allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities. As part of my responsibilities as U.S. Attorney, I wanted to be transparent with the public and, of course, investigate fully any allegations. Attorney General Barr, however, instructed me not to make any public statements or put out any press releases regarding possible election irregularities. I was also given a directive to pass along serious allegations to the State Attorney General for investigation — the same State Attorney General who had already declared that you could not win. I disagreed with the decision, but those were my orders. As a Marine infantry officer, I was trained to follow the chain of command and to respect the orders of my superiors, even when I disagree with them.”

Again, Barr denies this accounting. And he’s publicly said he did try to run down various allegations of fraud that were being bandied about.

Clark’s superiors at the Department of Justice did not want him to pursue his aggressive efforts, but he was also discussing the topic with their superior, the president himself. He tried to pursue a more aggressive strategy than the one that many DOJ officials thought prudent.

Reasonable people can see both sides here. Prudence — particularly so late in the game — is a huge issue. More tenacious fighting for election integrity is also virtuous. Many leaders up to and including Trump himself should have done far more — far earlier — to fight Democrats’ coordinated and widespread attacks on the integrity of the country’s election system. Many Republican officials were sounding the alarm in the months prior, but more should have been done to effectively fight before the election, including a legal strategy to fight the chaos, confusion, and corruption that was almost certainly going to occur.

But differing legal strategies are not crimes, no matter how much Pelosi and Cheney and their media bootlickers would like them to be. It is reasonable to oppose Clark’s strategy, but the letter causing so much dispute was not about fraud. It was about the many other problems affecting the integrity of the election. It was also — and it says this clearly on every page — a draft product for discussion. The letter urged state legislatures to ensure the integrity of their state’s elections when there was cause for concern. The Constitution does give that responsibility to the states.

The January 6 show trial is partly about persecuting political opponents. But it’s also about covering up the truth of the 2020 election. Turning questions about the many problems with the 2020 election into a crime is the type of thing that is done in third-world countries. Persecuting people who talk about it or try to do something about it is what you expect in corrupt authoritarian regimes. It is horrific to see it happening here.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/01/the-j6-show-trial-is-lying-about-election-fraud/

>>16606400

Track 03 "Let The Kingdom Come" - Album "Freedom"

https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1542780439638728708

Bernie's Tweets

@BernieSpofforth

HOLLAND - Farmers down tools in protest at the governments decision to lower nitrogen by 30% forcing thousands into bankruptcy and creating food shortages.

You are being sacrificed on the alter of WEF climate extremism. No one voted for this.

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4:01 AM · Jul 1, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

>>16575713

>JFK is alive

Who told you that?

>>16458065

Nigga pull up your pants

>>16451145

none of you has a fucking heart???????????????

Biden is Trump’s placeholder.

>>16573802

Coming to USA soon

Get to it, anons!

DIG, MEME, PRAY!

>>16398677

… perceived optics gives some people stuff to talk about at this time. The noise and mumbo jumbo will pass.

>>16380743

Nice fedpost bait mate, I rate it eight out of eight.

>>16396346

I was talking about HRC. That person in the picture is not her at all.

>>16566593

Sanest American pastor.

>>16509557

I would take Revelation a bit more personally. Alternatively, the interpretations would be a warning about cataclysm cycles and how they are forecasted by microcosms.

>>16509577

Did you get some spaghetti on your sweater already?

>>16515048

>We should wait and see how things develop in the next few days.

I don't expect more Q posts anytime soon, and if there are, they better address a few issues on the use of TOR.

>>16569872

>Logan has achieved and sustained fame/notoriety. That means she is proficient at licking Satan’s boots.

She changed after being manhandled and penetrated by dozens of men in Tahrir Square. I give her props for experiencing that and keeping her life on track.

"Logan said her clothes were torn off and her muscles were agonizingly stretched as she was separated from her crew and swallowed into the 200-to-300-strong mob. She recalled the flashes of cell phone cameras taking pictures of her naked body as her merciless attackers raped her with their hands.

"I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things because I couldn't even feel that because I think the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again," Logan said in the interview."

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/cbs-reporter-lara-logan-opens-tahrir-square-assault/story?id=13492964

USS Bulkeley CO, CMDCM Relieved of their Duties

11 June 2022

On June 10, 2022, Capt. Stefan Walch, Commodore, Destroyer Squadron Two (CDS-2), relieved USS Bulkeley (DDG 84) commanding officer, Cmdr. Devine Johnson and Command Master Chief Earl Sanders, due to a loss of confidence in their ability to effectively function as a command leadership team.

Johnson served as the USS Bulkeley (DDG 84) commanding officer since July 2020. Capt. William “Mac” Harkin, currently Deputy Commodore, Destroyer Squadron Two will be temporarily assigned as commanding officer until a permanent relief is identified.

Sanders served as the Bulkeley command master chief since June 2021 and will be replaced by Master Chief Petty Officer Christy Reed, also of CDS-2, until a permanent relief is assigned.

Johnson and Sanders will be temporarily reassigned to the staff of Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic. There is no impact to the command’s mission or schedule due to this relief.

https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pressreleases/Article/3059903/uss-bulkeley-co-cmdcm-relieved-of-their-duties/

>>16411787

saw it when it was released

braces

HBO version in the 80's

braces

can you imagine Biden fuckface in control?

>>16509690

so stop shilling and start digging through old q posts to look for a verification you pencil neck. oh wait, you're only here to shill anyway

>>16524652

>>16524659

>>16525041

Baker I justified Q's post so they line up better

From This:

Saturday 06.25.2022

>>16521604 rt >>16520866, >>16521137 ———–––——–— Established. (Who was "Jane Roe"? 50 years of conditioning.)

Friday 06.24.2022

>>16506930 ————————————–——– Are you ready to serve your country again? Remember your oath.

>>16505677 rt >>16505361 ———–––——–— It had to be done this way.

>>16504957 ————————————–——– Shall we play a game once more?

To This:

Saturday 06.25.2022

>>16521604 rt >>16520866, >>16521137 —— Established. (Who was "Jane Roe"? 50 years of conditioning.)

Friday 06.24.2022

>>16506930 ————————————–——– Are you ready to serve your country again? Remember your oath.

>>16505677 rt >>16505361 ———–––——–— It had to be done this way.

>>16504957 ————————————–——– Shall we play a game once more?

PASTE BIN: https://controlc.com/5d2f6134

>>16462678

Interesting

Alitalia - Società Aerea Italiana S.p.A.,[4][5] operating as Alitalia (Italian pronunciation: [aliˈtaːlja]), was an airline which was once the flag carrier and largest airline of Italy.[6] The company had its head office in Fiumicino, Rome.[7] The airline was fully owned by the Government of Italy since 17 March 2020. The airline operated a fleet of Airbus A319, Airbus A320, Airbus A321, Airbus A330-200, and Boeing 777-200ER aircraft to over 34 scheduled domestic, European and intercontinental destinations. The airline operated from its main hub at Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport. The airline was a full member of SkyTeam alliance and it had codeshare agreements with 42 airlines. In 2018, the airline was the twelfth-largest airline in Europe.

The airline entered extraordinary administration in 2017 following years of unprofitability.[8] On 24 August 2021, Alitalia announced that it would cease operations on 15 October 2021,[9] and that passengers with tickets for later flights could reschedule on an earlier flight or request a refund.[10][11] On 15 October 2021, its operations and assets were transferred to ITA Airways, a new state-owned flag carrier.[12]

>>16446186

>Especially since the post is still there to this day.

we have yet to see a sufficient explanation for this.

BO/BVsif you're lurking, has Jim explained why the B post is still up on Q's board?

>Truth Social is the only platform with the proper opsec security to meet Q's needs.

i don't know that anyone can say this definitively.

>>16603318

this is the fake smiley face similar to the pharma commercial about depression where the depressos have their fake happy face with them to feign happiness

forget the drug? but maybe she is on it

>>16554146

>When asked about it Q replied “Trust the plan”

STOP STOP IT!

it says,

"WELLCOME TRUST" the plan.

OK Kids, we're back and the plan is coming together. This, I believe is a MAJOR proof. Q35 from 11/1/17:

POTUS will be well insulated/protected on AF1 and abroad (specific locations classified) while these operations are conducted due to the nature of the entrenchment. It is time to take back our country and make America great again.

Its been thought that the POTUS referenced may have not been DJT but who was in the POTUS role at the time. Look who's on AF1 today while all the Libs melt down over RvW and 2A. Also note Q35 was signed 4.10.20. Why would DJT be talking about himself? I tell ya. Its HABBEING!

>>16513950

>>16514217

>>16514217

>>16514220

No Problemo. That's a support AC for Flashbang Joe's trip to Europe (G7 and NATO) . They must have run into issues.

>>16348434

I still do digs.

But not here.

>>16425582

>Nina Jankowicz

Gewd Eefnin' y'all Beautiful pieces of WorldWide Freedom! <3

>>16571198

What say you?

>>16582137

1 weapon per vote received

>>16194627

>>16194653

>Surely they aren't going to start a war on stupidity

Oh shit. I been waitin' fo dis.

>>16495473

If hard ai exists,

wouldn't someone use it to make captchas useless?

that would be the ultimate censorship for 8kun

KAMALA to state AGs: "It is the responsibility as a chief legal officer, which each of them has a responsibility of being, to concern themselves with making sure…enforcement is conducted in a way that is fair and equal in terms of the treatment of the laws and the enforcement."

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1540118333688877056

>>16446899

>>16446763

>>16446916

>Good doggos

>>16456468

(2 of 2)

On September 29, 2014, the OSCE Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings Madina Jarbussynova claimed that the mass graves discovered in the Donbas contained bodies missing internal organs, who have most likely become victims of black-market transplant surgeons.

The OSCE issued a statement on 30 October 2014 saying that Jarbussynova’s remarks had been taken out of context and she was merely citing two Russian NGO reports about the possible removal and sale of human organs in Eastern Ukraine. “The OSCE does not possess any evidence regarding possible organ harvesting in Eastern Ukraine,” the statement said.

In 2015 a video was posted online with an interview of an American transplant surgeon “working” in Odessa, Donetsk, Slavyansk, and Kramatorsk, revealing blood-chilling details of the mass removal of organs in Ukraine.

In 2017, the Russian newspaper Moskovskyi Komsomolets (“MKRU”) reported that the former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Volodymyr Oleinik, predicted a planned Ukrainian kidney donor transplant program due to begin in 2018 would “not only destroy public health but turn Ukraine into a black market transplant centre”. The pilot transplant program was to start in Nezalezhnaya and would “turn Nezalezhnaya into a centre for transplant tourism from rich countries,” Oleinik added.

At the time, Ukraine’s Deputy Health Minister Oleksander Lynchevskyi refuted this and said that such claims are part and parcel of a larger Russian disinformation narrative, that Ukraine is establishing an organ transplant black market.

Recently, a video interview of a former SSU employee was posted to the Internet, saying that being in the war zone in Donbas he was attached to the special medical group in Kramatorsk called “First Aid Group.” Since 2014 the group was engaged in the illegal removal of organs from injured Ukrainian troops in the vicinity of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

In early 2022 the German Minister of Defence, Christine Lambrecht, announced that Ukraine received a field hospital and a crematorium. Some media connected such a “gift” with a long well-oiled illegal business of selling organs of Ukrainian troops to the EU, the US, and Israel under the protection of SSU as indicated by many traits.

Recently a German-language publication, Neues aus Russland, published a fascinating story about mobile crematoriums in Ukraine which help conceal the major selling of organs to the EU.

https://ussanews.com/2022/06/09/has-the-red-cross-been-harvesting-childrens-organs-in-natos-ukraine/

>>16566582

global warming is hoax, and if SCOTUS don't see they they are all not in good behaviour

They will just have to wait and acquire children thru adoption agencies, like in the old days.

Does the Crimo dude remind anyone else of “Todd”, Christopher Walken’s son in Wedding Crashers?

>>16538316

Why is he playing both sides? I don't trust this faggot.

>>16436164

What kind of war is this? Many thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have surrendered and are POW's. Many more thousands have been killed or seriously wounded. Zelensky has just called for all women between 18 and 60 to register and go to the front lines.

Jewish guest on Wall Street Silver goes Full EPSTEIN ISLAND

in a good way, some kek to be had.

#silver​​ #wallstreetsilver #gold

The Collapse Has Begun! DO THIS NOW - Rafi Farber

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>>16441262

Make a wish

>>16488963

you're not going to believe this, but I paid for GIMP when it first came out on OS/2

CNN: Mr President, Did you try to drive the beast?

Trump: No, I never touched Kamala

>>16395577

>>16395570

>>16395574

>>16566490

wasn't it 6-3

>>16705177

>>16705199

Australian Federal Police

Statement on the historic assassination of Assistant Commissioner Colin Winchester

10 July 2022

The AFP has not reopened previously closed files into the Winchester assassination.

There is no evidence to suggest Italian organised crime was responsible for the death of one of our own, Assistant Commissioner Colin Winchester.

Our thoughts are always with the Winchester family.

The AFP wants to be clear: there is no recent, AFP review, report or intelligence, that suggests the mafia is responsible for the murder of former Assistant Commissioner Winchester.

There is no open investigation into this matter. It is not under review.

https://www.afp.gov.au/news-media/media-releases/statement-historic-assassination-assistant-commissioner-colin-winchester

>>16701998

China winning entropic warfare in Pacific Islands

We’ve seen Chinese entropic warfare in various stages in Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and elsewhere. And the contagion seems to be spreading in the Pacific.

Cleo Paskal - June 4, 2022

1/3

Alexandria, VA.: Make no mistake, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s tour of eight Pacific Island Countries (PICs) has been a success.

No, they didn’t sign his “China-Pacific Island Countries Common Development Vision” but it’s doubtful Beijing even thought that was on the cards. Otherwise, Wang would have held his group meeting with the PIC foreign ministers at the end of his trip, after he had a chance to speak to more of them individually, rather than in the middle. Remember the draft document was leaked, not trumpeted by China, and negotiations are to be expected.

Also, four of the countries in the region recognize Taiwan. Those signing up to Beijing’s deal would have been striking a sudden blow by proxy against their neighbours. It’s not the ways things are usually done in the Pacific. Just look at the regional consternation in response to the China-Solomon Islands security deal.

China would know that. It has half-a-dozen think tanks dedicated to studying the region, has trained hundreds (if not by now thousands) of Pacific Islands bureaucrats, and has generational, focused, intelligence on key leaders and their families.

Within the countries, China has large footprints, including often the largest embassy (with staff that speak the local language), financial relationships with key business leaders, favourite members of the media, and control of large sections of the retail sector, including in the relatively remote areas, and more.

It’s worth remembering that China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law reads: “Any organization or citizen shall support, assist or cooperate with the state intelligence work…The state protects individuals and organizations that support, assist and cooperate with national intelligence work… The State commends and rewards individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to national intelligence work.”

China has put in the effort to know the region. Bold individual action—such as the influential letter questioning the wisdom of the deals written by Federated States of Micronesia President David Panuelo—may have been a surprise, but the Chinese delegation would have deep files on the region and known before leaving Beijing this is a diverse and complicated area, with many leaders who value their nations’ sovereignty. They would have known the chances of getting the Vision agreed to as is, was slim.

So to better gauge if the trip was a success or not by Beijing’s metrics, let’s look at what some of the real goals might be.

KINETIC WARFARE

There was a lot of discussion about implications for kinetic warfare. In this context, kinetic broadly means “of or relating to the motion of material bodies”. Or a shooting war. You know, the Chinese “base” question.

No, China didn’t get a “base”, however, given China’s doctrines of unrestricted warfare and civil-military fusion, China may put kinetic elements in place in ways designed to bypass Western trip wires.

For example, the Vision proposes to “establish China-Pacific Island Countries Disaster Management Cooperation Mechanism”, that includes prepositioned “China-Pacific Island Countries Reserve of Emergency Supplies”. Those can easily be dual use.

And, while the multilateral Vision wasn’t signed, Wang did sign a series of bilateral deals, some of which echoed elements of the Vision, in most of the countries he visited. Some were formalizations or expansions of existing areas of cooperation, including blue economy, disaster management and more. Some were new, such as MoUs on fingerprint laboratories.

There also seemed to be a focus on gaining access in agriculture (land), fisheries (seas), aviation (air), and disaster response (amphibious, prepositioning). I’d like to be more precise, but the contents of most of the deals are secret. Which in itself is a win for Wang, on the political warfare front.

(continued)

>>16716406

2/3

POLITICAL WARFARE

While strategic positioning is taking place, the primary battlefield now is not kinetic warfare, but political warfare. Political warfare can be defined as anything short of kinetic, including media warfare, lawfare and psychological warfare, also known in China as the Three Warfares.

But what is the goal of that political warfare? From what we’ve seen on this trip, and from decades of Chinese operations, one of the main goals might be winning “entropic warfare”.

ENTROPIC WARFARE

Take a look at the chain of events that has garnered Beijing its closest PIC ally to date—one that did sign an overt security document with Beijing that has overt kinetic elements—Solomon Islands.

Solomons had some longstanding domestic political fractures, and when the government of Prime Minster Manasseh Sogavare switched the country from Taiwan to China in 2019 without public consultation, those fractures were aggravated.

Leaders within the country who objected to the switch, for example the Premier of Malaita Province, Daniel Suidani, were targeted by Sogavare with backing from the Chinese Embassy. That inflamed the situation even more, leading to unrest. That unrest created the justification for Sogavare to say he needed the security deal with China to handle the civil unrest.

It took around two years for a Solomons Prime Minister complicit with (if not compliant to) China, to dangerously destabilize the country. That destabilization suits the increasingly autocratic Prime Minister as it gives him the justification to go after his opposition in the name of “stability” and potentially to postpone elections—elections he is likely to lose.

Sogavare’s government is even acting in ways that are starting to have distinct “Chinese characteristics”, such as suppression of opposition and free speech. The Media Association of Solomon Islands boycotted covering Wang Yi’s visit because of restrictions placed on them by Sogavare’s government at the behest of the Chinese. And the Solomon Islands Christian Association issued a statement saying there “must be transparency for any international MOU’s and MOA’s with the Solomon Islands. These international documents should be made public before the actual signing.”

There is widespread and growing discontent in Solomons as the fragile social contract breaks down. Which China can consider a win. Solomons is weakened from within, making opposition less effective, and the leadership more dependent on Beijing.

The definition of entropy is: “a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder.” Political warfare is the tactic (using for example media warfare to create social division, lawfare to arrest critics, and psychological warfare to damage a target country’s relationship with other potential sources of support). That political warfare supports an “entropic warfare” win—paralyzing a target country’s ability to respond or defend itself, and so allowing Beijing to “win without fighting”.

We’ve seen Chinese entropic warfare in various stages in Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and elsewhere.

And the contagion seems to be spreading in the Pacific. Everywhere Wang Yi went, governments kept deals secret, restricted their own journalists, and blithely waived quarantine regulations that have been keeping families apart for over two years. In what are normally very tight-knit societies, that has sown seeds of social discord that are still nascent, but that have the potential to grow into the strangling vines of entropy.

(continued)

>>16716409

3/3

INDIA VERSUS ENTROPY

Because India has an understanding of a broad range of Chinese political warfare tactics (as shown for example by the banning of Chinese apps, including TikTok and WeChat), India has proven successful at helping to blunt entropic warfare attacks in Maldives and Nepal, and is now trying in Sri Lanka.

China knows this, and that is likely why its proxy, the government of Prime Minister Sogavare, is stalling the entry of India’s High Commissioner to Solomon Islands.

The entropic “degradation” of the social contract in the region has come as a wake-up call to many, including Australia. John Blaxland, Professor of International Security & Intelligence Studies at Australian National University said: “What has happened in Timor L’este [one of the countries to sign multiple deals with China] reflects a sad and cynical mishandling of the bilateral relationship by Australia. Australian goodwill has been squandered, after the remarkable circumstances in September 1999, when, under Major General Peter Cosgrove, the Australian-led and UN-endorsed International Force in East Timor (INTERFET) was the handmaiden of Timorese independence. The level of trust and goodwill back then was sky high. Now it’s in the toilet. How Australia could have played its hand so badly should be the subject of a hard-nosed review. Perhaps too clever by half, we thought we could play the role of dominant regional benefactor without thinking through the limits of our own power.”

Australia’s new government seems to be trying to right the boat, but there is likely to be a steep learning curve—and that review can’t come soon enough.

On news of Wang Yi’s plans, Australia’s new Foreign Minister Penny Wong quickly travelled to the region and gave speeches about Australia being a member of the “Pacific family”. But given the problems Pacific Islanders often have getting visas to Australia, many were likely thinking “you are the sort of family member who shows up in our house whenever you want and demands attention, but if we want to visit you, good luck getting in the door.”

Australia still has a lot to learn about its neighbours, and itself. But it doesn’t have much time. Entropy is spreading, with the active help of Beijing. While Canberra and others get up to speed, countries like India, and leaders like FSM President Panuelo, could be encouraged to engage more broadly on political warfare education and defence across the region—helping to knit together like-minded journalists, community leaders, business sectors, democracy-minded political leaders, and more.

For example, President Panuelo and Premier Suidani could be assured their economies won’t be penalized for their principled leadership, their analyses could be shared personally with other Pacific leaders (ideally in a low key, bilateral manner, without Australian or New Zealand intervention), and investigating could be launched into the “agents of entropy” laundering their ill-gotten Chinese money via, for example, Australian and New Zealand real estate. It would also be good to see Australia and others asking Solomons why Quad partner India wasn’t being allowed in.

Wang Yi’s trip was a win in China’s protracted entropic warfare strategy. That needs to be acknowledged, reviewed and understood. Australia just announced a new patrol boat for Samoa and recently opened a new military training facility in Fiji.

You can give a country as many patrol boats as you like, build whatever military training facilities you want, but if the country’s society weakens, fragments and is captured by Beijing, all you’ve done is given China and its proxies a nice new boat and barracks with which to suppress local opposition and project power.

Cleo Paskal is The Sunday Guardian Special Correspondent as well as Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/china-winning-entropic-warfare-pacific-islands

>>16701998

Changing hostility toward China first step for Australia to improve ties

Global Times - Jul 10, 2022

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Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia on Friday evening, the first meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries in three years.

This meeting is arguably the most substantive dialogue between the two major trading partners, during which both ministers raised their respective concerns. Particularly, Wang called on Australia to regard China as a partner rather than a rival and seek common ground while shelving differences, which indicates that it's more important to seek common ground between the two sides despite the various differences, which is very crucial.

China and Australia elevated bilateral ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership in 2014, which has been in name only since the relationship gradually deteriorated from 2017. Thus it is significant that both ministers stressed the importance of adhering to such strategic positioning, which means that the nature of China-Australia relations has not fundamentally changed, Chen Hong, president of the Chinese Association of Australian Studies and director of the Australian Studies Centre at East China Normal University, told the Global Times.

Wong mentioned that the meeting with Wang was a "first step" toward stabilizing the relationship. According to Chen, the emphasis on stabilization is a hint that there were ups and downs in relations in the past. It can be felt that the Australian side recognizes that the previous China-Australia relationship was not normal, while the reckless and provocative rhetoric toward China has significantly reduced under the current government.

Although such signals to repair the relationship are appreciated by Beijing, pragmatic moves rather than just verbal statements should be adopted by Canberra when "stabilizing" relations. It is not enough for Australian politicians to just stay on the level of will.

"The root cause of the difficulties in China-Australia relations in recent years lies in the insistence of previous Australian governments to treat China as an 'opponent' and even a 'threat,' Wang noted, adding that Australia's words and actions have been "irresponsible." In his message of congratulation to new Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang highlighted the need for both sides to "review the past, look into the future." Australia should be aware that it is the lack of rational judgment on China that has led to even more radical rhetoric than that from the US, and the free-fall decline in China-Australia relations.

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That is why it is crucial for Wang to urge Canberra to develop a rational and correct perception toward China. Only with the right mindset can both sides get the job done. Chen noted that the Albanese government is gradually formulating and implementing its diplomatic and security policies after taking office, and the influence of the previous government can be observed in this process, especially in terms of perceptions toward China, such as "Beijing is assertive" and "it is China that has changed." Such cognition, highly shared among Western countries, is determined by the long-standing alliance between Australia and the US, as well as Australia's core status in the Anglosphere.

Clearly, many politicians in the Australian Labor Party, including Albanese and Wong, cannot avoid being affected by Washington's hostile attitude toward China, such as the prime minister's preconditions for restarting the China-Australia relationship, saying that China needs to "remove sanctions" imposed on Australia in order to "improve relations." In fact, China initiated anti-dumping investigations into certain Australian exports in accordance with laws and regulations, and then imposed anti-dumping measures accordingly. China's probe into products from countries such as Australia is in accordance with WTO rules. Australia should abandon its double standard when analyzing China's trade remedy measures adopted to safeguard its reasonable interests.

Australia has recently expressed its willingness and stance to ease the bilateral relationship. On the key issue of tariffs and trade, Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell "held out the olive branch" to China, suggesting that a "compromise situation" or "alternative way" to settle trade disputes might emerge in talks between the two countries. The meeting between both foreign ministers is another step forward, and more substantive moves are believed to be on the way.

At such a critical moment, Australia should indeed be more sensible and act in its own interests, rather than following the anti-China strategy of the US, so it can truly improve its relationship with China, Australia's largest trading partner, Chen said.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202207/1270183.shtml

China crushes rare protest from people demanding their life savings back

Chinese officials have reacted with force after over 1000 people marched in a rare protest against alleged government corruption.

Staff writers / AFP - July 11, 2022

Chinese authorities reportedly crushed a peaceful protest by hundreds who demanded their life savings back from banks that have run into a deepening cash crisis.

Hundreds marched Sunday in protest against alleged corruption by local officials in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, multiple participants told AFP, in a rare public demonstration in the tightly-controlled country.

Hit hard by the country’s economic slowdown, four banks in Henan province have since mid-April frozen all cash withdrawals, leaving thousands of small savers without funds and sparking sporadic demonstrations.

Sunday saw some of the largest protests yet, with several hundred people rallying in front of a branch of the People’s Bank of China in the Henan capital Zhengzhou, according to multiple witnesses who declined to be named.

Images circulating on social media showed banners denouncing “the corruption and violence of the Henan authorities”.

Protesters were “hit, wounded and were bleeding from the head. Disabled people were also violently beaten,” one participant told AFP, estimating the number of demonstrators to have been “several thousand”.

Local sources said the face-off lasted for several hours until rows of security officers suddenly charged up the stairs and confronted the protesters head-on.

Security officers reportedly dragged protesters down the stairs and beat those who resisted.

One woman told CNN she was pushed to the ground by two security guards, who twisted and injured her arm. Another 27-year-old man said he was kicked by seven or eight guards on the ground before being carried away.

Local authorities in Henan did not immediately comment on the protests. Some demonstrators accuse officials of colluding with local banks to suppress protests, with authorities last month accused of exploiting the Covid health pass to quell new protests, turning protesters passes red to effectively bar them from public spaces.

The health pass has become a ubiquitous part of life in China under Beijing’s strict Covid-zero strategy, and is required to access the vast majority of buildings, shopping centres, public places and also certain public transport.

While most accept use of the technology for public health purposes, some have voiced concern that it could also be used for surveillance of the population – already widespread in China.

Demonstrations are relatively rare in tightly-controlled China, where social stability is an official obsession and where opposition is swiftly repressed.

But desperate citizens do sometimes take to the streets, despite the risk of arrest and prosecution.

Analysts say that some local banks across China have found their already-precarious financial situations exacerbated by corruption.

https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/china-crushes-rare-protest-from-people-demanding-their-life-savings-back/news-story/59518d0d1bdb7cf2885e7d5912fd87d3

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China crushes mass protest by bank depositors demanding their life savings back

Nectar Gan - July 11, 2022

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Hong Kong (CNN) - Chinese authorities on Sunday violently dispersed a peaceful protest by hundreds of depositors, who sought in vain to demand their life savings back from banks that have run into a deepening cash crisis.

Since April, four rural banks in China's central Henan province have frozen millions of dollars worth of deposits, threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of customers in an economy already battered by draconian Covid lockdowns.

Anguished depositors have staged several demonstrations in the city of Zhengzhou, the provincial capital of Henan, over the past two months, but their demands have invariably fallen on deaf ears.

On Sunday, more than 1,000 depositors from across China gathered outside the Zhengzhou branch of the country's central bank, the People's Bank of China, to launch their largest protest yet, more than half a dozen protesters told CNN.

The demonstration is among the largest China has seen since the pandemic, with domestic travel limited by various Covid restrictions on movement. Last month, Zhengzhou authorities even resorted to tampering with the country's digital Covid health-code system to restrict the movements of depositors and thwart their planned protest, sparking a nationwide outcry.

This time, most protesters arrived outside the bank before dawn - some as early as 4 a.m. - to avoid being intercepted by authorities. The crowd, which included the elderly and children, occupied a flight of imposing stairs outside the bank, chanting slogans and holding up banners.

"Henan banks, return my savings!" they shouted in unison, many waving Chinese flags, in videos shared with CNN by two protesters.

Using national flags to display patriotism is a common strategy for protesters in China, where dissent is strictly suppressed. The tactic is meant to show that their grievances are only against local governments, and that they support and rely on the central government to seek redress.

"Against the corruption and violence of the Henan government," a banner written in English read.

A large portrait of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong was pasted on a pillar at the entrance of the bank.

Across the street, hundreds of police and security personnel - some in uniforms and others in plain clothes - assembled and surrounded the site, as protesters shouted "gangsters" at them.

Violent crackdown

The face-off lasted for several hours until after 11 a.m., when rows of security officers suddenly charged up the stairs and clashed with protesters, who threw bottles and other small objects at them.

The scene quickly descended into chaos, as security officers dragged protesters down the stairs and beat those who resisted, including women and the elderly, according to witnesses and social media videos.

One woman from eastern Shandong province told CNN she was pushed to the ground by two security guards, who twisted and injured her arm. A 27-year-old man from the southern city of Shenzhen, surnamed Sun, said he was kicked by seven or eight guards on the ground before being carried away. A 45-year-old man from the central city of Wuhan said his shirt was completely torn at the back during the scuffle.

Many said they were shocked by the sudden burst of violence by the security forces.

"I did not expect them to be so violent and shameless this time. There was no communication, no warning before they brutally dispersed us," said one depositor from a metropolis outside Henan who had protested in Zhengzhou previously, and who requested CNN conceal his name due to security concerns.

"Why would government employees beat us up? We're only ordinary people asking for our deposits back, we did nothing wrong," the Shandong woman said.

The protesters were hurled onto dozens of buses and sent to makeshift detention sites across the city - from hotels and schools to factories, according to people taken there. Some injured were escorted to hospitals; many were released from detention by the late afternoon, the people said.

CNN has reached out to the Henan provincial government for comment.

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The Zhengzhou Business District Police Station - which has jurisdiction over the protest site - hung up on CNN's call requesting comment.

Late on Sunday night, the Henan banking regulator issued a terse statement, saying "relevant departments" were speeding up efforts to verify information on customer funds at the four rural banks.

"(Authorities) are coming up with a plan to deal with the issue, which will be announced in the near future," the statement said.

Police in Xuchang, a city neighboring Zhengzhou, said in a statement late Sunday they recently arrested members of an alleged "criminal gang," who were accused of effectively taking control over the Henan rural banks starting from 2011 - by leveraging their shareholdings and "manipulating banks executives."

The suspects were also accused of illegally transferring funds through fictitious loans, the police said, adding that some of their funds and assets had been seized and frozen.

Shattered lives

The protest comes at a politically sensitive time for the ruling Communist Party, just months before its leader Xi Jinping is expected to seek an unprecedented third term at a key meeting this fall.

Large-scale demonstrations over lost savings and ruined livelihoods could be perceived as a political embarrassment for Xi, who has promoted a nationalistic vision of leading the country to "great rejuvenation."

Henan authorities are under tremendous pressure to stop the protests. But depositors remain undeterred. As the issue drags on, many have become ever more desperate to recover their savings.

Huang, the depositor from Wuhan, lost his job in the medical cosmetology industry this year, as businesses struggled in the pandemic. Yet he is unable to withdraw any of his life savings - of over 500,000 yuan ($75,000) - from a rural bank in Henan.

"Being unemployed, all I can live on is my past savings. But I can't even do that now - how am I supposed to (support my family)?" said Huang, whose son is in high school.

Sun, from Shenzhen, is struggling to keep his machine factory from bankruptcy after losing his deposit of 4 million yuan ($597,000) to a Henan bank. He can't even pay his more than 40 employees without the funds.

Sun said he was covered in bruises and had a swollen lower back after being repeatedly stomped by security guards at the protest.

"The incident completely overturned my perception of the government. I've lived all my life placing so much faith in the government. After today, I'll never trust it again," he said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/10/china/china-henan-bank-depositors-protest-mic-intl-hnk/index.html

Catholic Church considers appeal while facing huge sex-abuse hit

JOHN FERGUSON - JULY 10, 2022

The Catholic Church is confronting a potentially huge hit to its ­finances, with several new sex abuse claimants emerging after a $1.9m damages payout to a former altar boy in the archdiocese of Melbourne.

Rightside Legal lawyer Michael Magazanik said several people had come forward alleging offending by disgraced Catholic priest Desmond Gannon in the wake of the huge payout this year to one of his victims.

The Catholic Church is considering appealing the decision by Victorian Supreme Court judge Andrew Keogh, who ordered the church to pay the $1.9m for pain, suffering and economic loss to the former parishioner.

The victim alleged there was negligence by the archdiocese and it was vicariously liable for the abuse perpetrated by Gannon, a serial offender. Responsibility was finally sheeted home to the church, which had been warned in the past about Gannon’s behaviour but failed to act.

The altar boy was sexually ­abused three times by Gannon between 1968 and 1970 but he was not convicted and jailed for the abuse until 2009.

Mr Magazanik said he believed there were still a large number of people in the community who had been offended against by clergy and had not previously alerted authorities.

“I think there is a really big cohort of clergy abuse survivors who have never come forward,” he said.

“We’ve had a steady run of new clients since the Gannon decision. The church is deluded if it believes this completely avoidable disaster is coming to an end.”

The church did not comment on the Gannon matter but has confirmed an appeal against the Gannon decision was being considered.

The massive Gannon payout comes as the archdiocese of Melbourne battles strong financial headwinds from the pandemic, the long-term implications of the sex-abuse crisis and changing community attitudes to religion.

It is believed there have been dozens of Gannon victims.

The neighbouring diocese of Ballarat has also confronted a relentless series of complaints in recent decades, many related to Gerald Ridsdale, whom police believe could have attacked hundreds of victims.

The Victorian government passed legislation in 2019 that en­abled the courts to set aside past deeds of release relating to child abuse, which could have a profound impact on the number of large civil claims that could follow.

There are expected to be hundreds of people in Victoria who have signed deeds of release in exchange for relatively small financial payouts, under the Catholic Church’s Melbourne Response and Towards Healing, and via other institutions.

Chris Goddard, adjunct professor at UniSA and an expert on abuse matters, said large payouts such as the Gannon case contrasted sharply with the small payments afforded victims under the Melbourne Response and other schemes.

He said the recent large civil payments would still not restore people’s lives.

“It’s to try to give restitution to lives that were destroyed,” he said.

In the case of Gannon’s victim, most of the payout was for loss of earning capacity damages.

The Gannon victim previously had received $139,000 in compensation under the Melbourne Response but that payment and deed was not a barrier to the claim as it was an ex-gratia payment made when he had no legal rights.

There are questions about whether many – or even any – of the Melbourne Response deeds will protect the church after legislative reform and legal precedents were set.

Legal sources familiar with the Gannon decision said the church would have no option but to ­appeal the decision because of the financial implications of the case, even though some church cases are covered, at least in part, by ­insurance.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/catholic-church-considers-appeal-while-facing-huge-sexabuse-hit/news-story/95ba013d3929449ec1561faeb6bddb48

Hi-tech arms may be more important than subs, Defence Minister Richard Marles says

Defence Minister Richard Marles says hi-tech arms and expertise may be more important than the nuclear submarines that headline the AUKUS pact.

Tom Minear - July 11, 2022

Hypersonic missiles, autonomous undersea vehicles and quantum technologies may be even more important to Australia’s security than the nuclear submarines that headline the AUKUS pact, Defence Minister Richard Marles says.

He has also opened the door to creating a new AUKUS visa, saying it was an “interesting idea” to ensure Australia, the US and the UK could “share expertise and technology at an industrial level”.

The Deputy Prime Minister flew out to the US on Sunday for what will be the first ministerial visit to Australia’s closest ally since the federal election in May.

Speaking to the Herald Sun prior to his departure, Mr Marles said the progress of the submarine program would be a key focus of talks with his US counterpart Lloyd Austin.

The Albanese government will announce early next year whether it will build a version of the US or UK submarines, along with the timeline and budget for the huge program, which Mr Marles said he wanted to deliver “as quickly as possible”.

But he said he was also ­focused on advancing the ­development of other technologies that would be “central to how countries do defence in the future”.

“These other technologies that we are looking at developing may well end up being … just as if not more important in terms of the way in which the three countries relate to each other, and therefore what AUKUS ultimately delivers,” Mr Marles said.

The Defence Minister ­acknowledged visits from US and UK submarines to our shores could be part of covering the capability gap before Australia’s subs hit the water, which could take until at least 2040.

Prior to the election, former prime minister Scott Morrison said ­Defence was ­reviewing the infrastructure upgrades required at Western Australia’s submarine base to host US and UK submarines.

Mr Marles said this was one of several measures “that we would contemplate about how we maintain and evolve our submarine capability from this moment through until whenever we get the first submarine”.

He refused to be drawn on when Australia’s submarine work would begin, though he said the government wanted to create a “production line” based in South Australia.

On the trip, Mr Marles will also meet with Democrat and Republican congressional leaders, saying he was “really confident about a sense of bipartisanship in the US around AUKUS”.

“It is a very deep relationship and it genuinely is a relationship that transcends politics on both sides of the ­Pacific,” he said.

“We’re living through a moment in time where the ­alliance has really never been more important.”

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/hitech-arms-may-be-more-important-than-subs-defence-minister-richard-marles-says/news-story/f2cd07e29fdf4d6d93494a80fd29bfde

Exercise Koolendong 2022: Australian Defence Force and US Marines hold warfighting exercise across the Top End

11 July 2022

US Marines of the Marine Rotational Force-Darwin (MRF-D) and members of the Australian Defence Force from Australian Army’s 1st and 13th Brigade, and Royal Australian Air Force’s 36th, 37th and 75th Squadrons have commenced Exercise Koolendong this week across the Top End.

The three week warfighting exercise is being held at Defence training areas in the Northern Territory and for the first time, in Western Australia to simulate a response to a regional security crisis.

Australian Army Colonel Marcus Constable, Commander Headquarters Northern Command said the exercise built on the recent successes of Exercises Southern Jackaroo and Crocodile Response.

“This annual exercise allows the ADF to rehearse with the US Marines in a combined arms littoral combat scenario,” Colonel Constable said.

“Koolendong strengthens the US-Australian relationship, advances and validates USMC-ADF interoperability and demonstrates preparedness to respond to a regional crisis.”

US Marine Colonel Christopher Steele, MRF-D’s Commanding Officer, said the culminating exercise of the MRF-D demonstrates the potency of the US and Australian alliance.

“We are deploying significant forces by land, air and sea to training areas in both WA and the NT including Mount Bundy Training Area, RAAF Base Curtin & Yampi Sound Training Area,” Colonel Steele said.

“This mid-intensity warfighting exercise replicates elements of a combined joint littoral combat operation supported by capabilities from the US Army and US Air Force.

“The Australia-US Alliance has never been more important as we look ahead to our regional strategic challenges,” Colonel Steele said.

The Marine Rotational Force – Darwin is part of the United States Force Posture Initiative which demonstrates of the strength of the Australia-United States Alliance and our shared deep engagement with the Indo-Pacific region.

Media note

Media can access imagery of Exercise Koolendong at:

https://images.defence.gov.au/S20221716

and at:

https://www.dvidshub.net/unit/MRF-D

https://news.defence.gov.au/media/media-releases/defence-and-us-marines-hold-warfighting-exercise-across-top-end

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US B-2 bombers arrive in Australia for rotational deployment

Defense Brief Editorial - July 11, 2022

US Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bombers arrived at Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) base Amberley on July 10 for a regularly-scheduled deployment.

This is the first time since August 2020 that the B-2s deployed to the Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) area of responsibility as part of a Bomber Task Force.

The aircraft from the 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, will be operating out of Australia, supporting the Enhanced Cooperation Initiative under the Force Posture Agreement between the United States and Australia.

The EAC initiative began in February 2017 to build on a broad range of long-standing air exercises and training activities undertaken between the two countries. Its aim is to deepen advanced air-to-air integration between the Australian Defence Force and United States air elements to enable the two countries to operate together seamlessly.

The US airmen will employ the B-2 to conduct training missions and strategic deterrence missions with allies, partners and joint forces in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific.

Several PACAF KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft will be supporting the B-2 Spirit aircraft, providing refueling capability for the visiting bomber aircraft while they integrate with the Royal Australian Air Force to conduct various training exercises and activities.

“This deployment of the B-2 to Australia demonstrates and enhances the readiness and lethality of our long-range penetrating strike force,” said Lt. Col. Andrew Kousgaard, 393rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron commander. “We look forward to training and enhancing our interoperability with our RAAF teammates, as well as partners and allies across the Indo-Pacific as we meet PACAF objectives.”

Marine Rotational Force-Darwin (MRF-D) exercise Koolendong kicks off

The arrival of the bombers in Queensland coincided with the kick-off of the joint exercise Koolendong that is undertaken by US Marines of the Marine Rotational Force-Darwin (MRF-D) and members of the Australian Defence Force from Australian Army’s 1st and 13th Brigade, and Royal Australian Air Force’s 36th, 37th and 75th Squadrons.

The three week warfighting exercise is being held at training areas in the Northern Territory and for the first time, in Western Australia to simulate a response to a regional security crisis.

Australian Army Colonel Marcus Constable, Commander Headquarters Northern Command said the exercise built on the recent successes of Exercises Southern Jackaroo and Crocodile Response.

“This annual exercise allows the ADF to rehearse with the US Marines in a combined arms littoral combat scenario,” Colonel Constable said.

“Koolendong strengthens the US-Australian relationship, advances and validates USMC-ADF interoperability and demonstrates preparedness to respond to a regional crisis.”

US Marine Colonel Christopher Steele, MRF-D’s Commanding Officer, said the culminating exercise of the MRF-D demonstrates the potency of the US and Australian alliance.

“We are deploying significant forces by land, air and sea to training areas in both WA and the NT including Mount Bundy Training Area, RAAF Base Curtin & Yampi Sound Training Area,” Colonel Steele said.

“This mid-intensity warfighting exercise replicates elements of a combined joint littoral combat operation supported by capabilities from the US Army and US Air Force.”

https://defbrief.com/2022/07/11/us-b-2-bombers-arrive-in-australia-for-rotational-deployment/

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General Research #21075 >>16707681

China's Foreign Minister blames Morrison government for poor relations, tells Penny Wong to 'treat us as a partner, not a threat'

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong that the Albanese government must form a "correct understanding" of China as a partner, not a threat, according to a Chinese government summary of their first meeting in Bali.

Key points:

China's Foreign Minister says the Morrison government is to blame for the deterioration of diplomatic ties in recent years

Mr Wang says the previous government was "determined to view China as an adversary and even a threat"

He hopes the Albanese government will now seize this opportunity to "reduce negative assets and create positive energy"

The meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers' summit on Friday night ended more than three years of cold shoulder treatment from China's Foreign Ministry towards Australian ministers, and is a prominent step in the resumption of high level contact between the two countries.

China's government waited more than 24 hours after the meeting to present its account of the exchange, which Ms Wong described earlier as "an important first step" to "stabilise" the relationship.

She told reporters that she raised the prolonged detention of two Australian citizens in Beijing on national security charges and China's trade restrictions on multiple Australian exports, but declined to specify what Mr Wang asked of Australia.

Morrison government to blame

In a statement, China's Foreign Ministry said Mr Wang laid the blame for the extraordinary deterioration of diplomatic ties in recent years on the previous Australian government, telling Ms Wong the Morrison government was "determined to view China as an adversary and even a threat".

"[The previous government] undertook a series of irresponsible words and actions," Mr Wang said at the meeting, according to the Chinese government statement.

His statement is in line with Beijing's stance over the past few years that the Australian side is to blame rather than China, despite Xi Jinping's government jailing two Australians in secretive cases, sentencing a third to death and imposing billions of dollars of trade strikes in a thinly veiled effort to economically coerce Australia.

Four demands of Albanese government

With such measures failing to shift either the Morrison government's positions or Australian public opinion, Beijing has used the election of the Albanese government as a reason to resume diplomatic contact.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-10/treat-us-as-a-partner-not-a-threat-wang-yi-told-penny-wong/101225434

General Research #21075 >>16707751

Thousands of Australian companies folded last financial year as collapse nightmare worsens

Thousands of Aussie companies disappeared over the past year – and experts say it’s only going to get worse in the months ahead.

It’s no secret the construction industry is in crisis, with scores of big-name firms collapsing in recent months, leaving devastated staff and would-be homeowners in the lurch.

A number of well-known retailers – like luxury shoe chain Sneakerboy and grocery app Send – have also folded lately, while the catastrophic collapse of investment firm Remi Capital also dominated headlines earlier this year.

But it turns out those examples are just the tip of the iceberg, with Australia recording a staggering 3917 liquidations or administration appointments across all industries during the 2021-22 financial year.

While the construction sector led the charge, representing 28 per cent of all insolvencies, firms from countless industries also failed in the face of soaring inflation and interest rate pressures, Covid chaos, labour shortages and supply chain disruptions.

There were 1536 collapses in NSW, with Victoria recording 1022, Queensland 665, WA 350, South Australia 196, 91 for the ACT, 29 for Tasmania and 28 in the Northern Territory.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/thousands-of-australian-companies-folded-last-financial-year-as-collapse-nightmare-worsens/news-story/95aa1aa2343c3f4a943640868cefd486

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Victorian government rejects chief health officer’s mask mandate recommendation

HAMISH SPENCE - JULY 12, 2022

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The Victorian government has been accused of going against health advice for political reasons after rejecting a recommendation from the state’s chief health officer to mandate masks in certain settings.

The Victorian Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas unveiled a range of new pandemic orders on Tuesday, with another wave of Covid sweeping through and the state’s hospital numbers continuing to climb.

But she only “strongly recommended” that masks be worn indoors and in crowded settings despite revealing acting chief health officer Ben Cowie had advised mandates should be reintroduced in some settings.

“The chief health officer has provided his advice and I have accepted his advice, except that I have chosen not to extend mandates for mask wearing in some of the settings that were recommended to me,” Ms Thomas said on Tuesday.

“The advice from the chief health officer was to mandate mask wearing in early childhood and school settings, and indeed in retail and in some hospitality settings for workers in those areas.

“I made a decision based on the advice that I had received that further mandating masks was not the most effective way to get the message out about the importance of mask wearing.

“We need to empower Victorians to make their own decisions.”

But new Victorian Nationals deputy leader Emma Kealy said the decision went against the government's previous stance of following health advice and was motivated by politics during a state election year.

“For the past two years, all we‘ve heard is that this government is listening to the health advice and now with an election looming, they’re making decisions informed by political will,” she said.

“We have a government that have got us into a chaotic mess in Victoria with their health care system crisis and with people not able to get their health care support when they need it.”

But Victorian Liberals leader Matthew Guy was supportive of the government’s decision.

“I’m glad the government aren’t introducing mask mandates; that’s one piece of good news,” he said.

Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Paul Guerra also welcomed the decision, calling it a “common sense” approach.

“The Victorian Chamber welcomes the approach of recommendations and not mandates; this puts the decision making back on the individual and businesses,” he said.

“We have advocated that mandates should be avoided. This is a commonsense approach which enables people to make their own decisions to protect their health, the health of their clients and their family and friends.

“We would also encourage our members to support their teams to get their third or fourth Covid-19 vaccination, such as time off to attend appointments.”

Masks are still mandatory on public transport, in rideshare vehicles and in high-risk settings.

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Victoria’s Covid hospitalisation numbers have grown by more than 50 per cent over the last two weeks, with 737 people in the state’s hospitals as of Tuesday with the virus.

To help counter this issue, the government announced a “significant new investment” for a public campaign.

The Stay Well in Winter campaign will run on television, radio, and outdoor and digital channels to educate the community about the benefits of getting vaccinated, wearing a mask and maximising ventilation indoors.

Another round of the Small Business Ventilation Grant Program was also announced to help businesses invest in equipment that will keep their workers and customers safe in indoor settings.

These announcements were accompanied by changes to the state’s immunity and isolation rules.

The period when someone is considered a recently confirmed case, meaning they are exempt from testing and isolation and quarantine requirements, was reduced from 12 weeks to four weeks.

This change was in line with Australian Health Protection Principal Committee advice, with evidence suggesting that new Covid variants can evade immunity from prior infection.

Positive cases in seven-day isolation were given an additional reason to leave their home – to provide transport for a household member to obtain food if essential.

The infected person will need to remain in the car and wear a face covering at all times.

These changes will come into effect from 11:59m on Tuesday.

Ms Thomas also requested that employers consider working-from-home arrangements for their employees where “most appropriate”.

She encouraged Victorians to follow health advice during that state’s third Covid winter.

“This is our third Covid winter. We all wish that it would go away, but that is not happening. Victorians know what to do,” Ms Thomas said.

“As we’re seeing across the globe and around Australia, winter means more time inside where Covid and the flu can spread. It also means our nurses, ambos and doctors have never worked harder, and we can’t thank them enough.

“We are working with business and community leaders to ensure advice and information is provided to the wider community – to help all Victorians stay well this winter.

“Wearing a mask, getting up to date with your vaccinations and ensuring indoor areas are well ventilated are small but effective steps Victorians and businesses can take to manage their own Covid risk this winter.”

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/victorian-government-rejects-mask-mandate-recommendation/news-story/18f80fca0a603fd2d52b1db35c87a7de

PM Anthony Albanese rolls up sleeve for fourth Covid-19 vaccine

CATIE MCLEOD - JULY 12, 2022

Anthony Albanese has rolled up his sleeve for his second booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

The Prime Minister received his fourth shot at a Sydney pharmacy on Tuesday, a day before he departs for Fiji to attend the Pacific Islands Forum.

At 59-years-old, Mr Albanese is part of the age bracket which has been recommended to have a fourth dose of the vaccine as infections surge.