- cross-posted to:
- australia@quokk.au
- cross-posted to:
- australia@quokk.au
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I’ve felt increasingly this way for a long time now about the Military and our reliance on allies with fundamentally different challenges and increasingly different world views from Australia’s.
Australia and New Zealand, and our whole oceania region need to start taking our future planning and preparation seriously as a region with a future, or we will find ourselves on the actual road to serfdom.
I’ll give props to the Albanese government who have made significant progress with pacific islands, png, and Indonesia over this last year, but this is a start to a project that needs bipartisan, and emphatic support otherwise our region will be at the mercy and whim of the large powers in this world for the next century or more.
@Gorgritch_umie_killa
‘What is the point of intelligence that can identify environmental protesters but cannot link a cache of guns to a known extremist connection? What kind of vigilance mistakes the accumulation of data for comprehension?’Such an important question isn’t it. What are we doing here? I feel like the importance and emphasis so much of our society is placing on superficial culture war whipping mules has blinkered them to the real and far more consequential matters the State faces.
Such as, the triple planetary crisis which is ignored at every possible opportunity, or the destabilisation inherent of a switch from a unipolar world to a multipolar world (yes we probably have the threat of China well understood, but seem not to consider the wider implications for other nation’s behaviour in that world, namely the USA’s, (until maybe this year).
@Gorgritch_umie_killa There are already too many repressive laws in place that did NOTHING to prevent what happened on Bondi Beach. As for ASIO? What use are they???
It alwayss seems off that in the face sonw teadwgy the knee jeek is to make it even more illegal as the reaction.
But to be fair voters seem to mostly respond positively to it …so i understand why polticans do it.
As to ASIO hey, soon they’ll be able to distribute child porn, so there is that.
