The Albanese Government’s craven desire to bolster the alliance with Washington – Pearls and Irritations

L-R) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, New Zealand's Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol pose for a family picture ahead of the North Atlantic Council meeting with Sweden, Indo-Pacific Partners, and the EU at the NATO ?summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, 12 July 2023. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit takes place in Vilnius on 11 and 12 July 2023 with the alliance's leaders expected to adopt new defenfe plans. Image: AAP/EPA/YONHAP SOUTH KOREA OUT

When will Australians realise, as Paul Keating has been unerringly consistent in arguing, that they are part of the cosmopolitanism and complexity of Asia, and not a Western imagined community presided over by a fast declining America?

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