Defence has a $55 billion per year budget and repeat procurement scandals - they need fearless oversight, not a Commissioner who puts himself in the Defence hierarchy every time he wears that uniform.

Indeed, capitalist consumerism is mostly to blame for the individualistic narcissism Kelly professes to be worried about. Even successive Popes have been banging on about this for years, and about the climate crisis, but curiously the Catholic Boys Weekly thinks they are also too woke.

Hugh White’s Quarterly Essay of last year is looking more and more prescient. AUKUS is a catastrophic mistake for Australia as it presupposes Washington has a clear or coherent strategy in East Asia.