#australia
4 posts tagged australia.
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AUKUS drones and the war beneath the waves
The West's bet on underwater drones to defend seabed cables reveals that the next great-power conflict may be decided below the surface, not above it.
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One Nation in Farrer, and the Liberals' lost river
Pauline Hanson's party winning a Coalition seat is not a freak event — it is the Australian leg of the same realignment that just hit Britain, and the Liberals' instinct will be to misdiagnose it.
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Honiara turns the page, and Beijing notices
The fall of Solomon Islands prime minister Jeremiah Manele is a small Pacific story with a large geopolitical implication: Chinese client states are not as locked in as their patron pretends.
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Australia's Pacific scramble, and the cost of complacency
Canberra is racing to sign a security pact with Fiji after Beijing helped unwind the Vanuatu agreement — a small story that contains the whole logic of the new Pacific contest.