Why did the Trump Administration decide to describe a meeting between Australia's minister of defence, Richard Marles, and US secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance as a "happenstance encounter"?

For those who want to suffer the inconvenience of having to navigate from a post you might be interested in, to the profile page to find a link to the site, and then search for the article itself on that site, I've set up an Instagram page for my writing.

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This morning at Parliament House in Canberra, foreign minister Penny Wong launched our latest Options Paper for AP4D – A Whole-Of-Nation Approach to International Policy

You can read the paper here - asiapacific4d.com/idea/whole-o...

Some reflections on Australia’s recent referendum, and the difficulties that the progressive classes have being able to speak to the broader public (and whether they care).

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Just popped across the Öresund Bridge to Copenhagen to vote in Australia’s current referendum. Great respect to the Australian Electoral Commission for making voting accessible anywhere in the world.