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.