Commonwealth Prime Ministers Preoccupied by Ethical Topics Ignored Own Base Boris Johnson changed his party without formally announcing his switch as he veered across the political divide from conservatism to globalism. He is in good company. Australian prime minister Scott Morrison did the same thing. He swerved from straight laced traditionalism to accepting the full slate of contemporary avant garde values. The only difference being that Mr Johnson’s U-turn stemmed from the zeal associated with new converts to causes. Mr Morrison’s rather grim-faced acceptance of such causes was of a rather more operational nature. He sought to straddle the Australian…

Australasians now fear precedent spill over and sectarian schism From the outset of this millennium the coastal enclaves of the United States exported ethics to the rest of the Anglosphere. These buzzed up moral constructs were absorbed unquestioningly like warm honey until even just a few days ago. The repeal of Roe versus Wade amounted to a slap in the face. The United States ethics command of the Anglosphere became obvious when government heads in the UK and Australasia felt compelled to remind their own citizens that they were not in fact under United States jurisdiction, and thus they were…

Contorted Language and Ersatz Theory Hid Europe’s Peril Hanna Reitsch was the first woman to fly a helicopter and also a jet plane. She was an early glider pilot and refined air brake technology. It was as a gliding instructor that she toured Australasia where in an interview she was asked what Germans most regretted about World War 2. “Losing it,” replied the winner of two Iron Crosses. How did West Germany recover so rapidly from World War 2, and then absorb so easily the old Soviet East Germany? The aviatrix had supplied the answer. It was the next fixture…

Retribalization zealotry route for China penetration of institutions Accelerating separatism in favour of pre-European inhabitants in Australia and New Zealand encourages China to press ahead with its scheme to widen its presence in Oceania. The CCP understands that the more the governments of Australasia utter the words coming together, the more determined they are in fact to ensure that the opposite happens. The announcement by Australia’s new Labour government that it intends to establish a parallel Aboriginal advisory auxiliary parliament signals an in-depth commitment to a dual foreign policy and one that will favour a tilt toward China. New Zealand’s…

Who is doing who the favour? Republicanism becomes an intense if as yet unspecified issue with the return after a nine year interval of a Labour federal government. Palace courtiers seeking to avert it and tempted to send out members of the Royal family on flag waving tours should hesitate. The reason is that Australia needs the Royal family much more than the Royal family needs Australia. Australia is often considered the most over-governed of any nation anywhere Without the monarchy Australia would have added to its already richly layered in-place constituted governance a fifth layer and which like the…

Choreographed cover up meant Allies sourced power supplies from their enemy Robert Ludlum the thriller writer was asked how he discovered his rich amalgam of world threatening conspiracy, mystery and corporate greed. “I was leafing through a picture book portraying Germany between the wars,” he explained. “The population was poverty stricken, hopeless. Then a few pages later this same population became transformed into a picture of purposeful prosperity. “What had happened? “Hitler had taken over. Hitler had to have external assistance, powerful international helpers. Who and what were they and how did they transform Germany so quickly?” Thus fired and…

Turn of the tide but Premier was blind to gathering storm and deaf to hinge of fate In his book The Churchill Factor Boris Johnson describes the war leader as being regarded as a “tosser” by both colleagues and the electorate at large. Only when he became prime minister in 1940 did this impression recede insists his biographer. Politically much the same thing happened to Boris Johnson himself in his even more surprising ascension to war leader after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and in which he too assumed the mantle of the lion giving the roar. Like his storied…

Allied Credulity Paved Way to conflict For the past 117 years Germany has known how to extract motor spirit fuel from the air. This on top of the fact that Germany had invented in the first place the combustion engine motor vehicle carried a definite implication: Germany would introduce for the mass market the alternative to fossil fuels. The opposite happened. Germany instead became dependent on fossil fuel energy derived from Russia. The original belief that Germany would introduce alternative fuels stemmed from Germany’s domination of chemical synthesis giving it 70 percent of the world market and giving the world…

Outcome Clouded as Lucky Country becomes the Deluded Country The United States and Australia are the two most weather conscious electorates in the world and the pending Australian general i.e. federal election is overcast. Australia’s recent predilection for moral issues is obscured by its image everywhere else as the Lucky Country and which arrived at this felicitous state through a determination to avoid entanglement in the abstract and the obscure. Federal politics illustrates Australia’s transition from being the Lucky Country to an excitable one. In politics personal value judgements publicly expressed predominate. The Greek-derived word misogynist has become the barbed…

Atomic submarines treaty will be prey to close-in China eavesdropping The Ukraine geopolitical counter weight gave the CCP the opportunity to cause it to be known that China was reinforcing its already troubling presence in Oceania with a base in the Solomon Islands only recently wrested away from an alignment with Taiwan. The installations in the Solomon Islands will be ready to monitor Australia’s pending fleet of atomic submarines constructed and deployed under the AUKUS alliance and which will represent the allied-controlled major strike force in the southern hemisphere. Guadalcanal (pictured) the main island, was a critical focus of the…

Shadowy Kremlin adviser may be answer to West taken by surprise riddle When John Kerry on learning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine announced that he hoped it would not interfere with his global climate change plans many were aghast. “I hope President Putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate.” There are some signs that the former Democratic presidential nominee’s statement needs to be examined even more closely than it already has been. The reason is that president Biden’s climate envoy may have believed that he was on…