An extremely clear example of why the #Greens @greens.org.au are so critical in the Senate & can become so much more #AusPol
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![Keating said the US would “certainly lose” in a war with China over Taiwan.
“But having lost, [the US would] scuttle itself back to San Diego, leaving Australia vulnerable to China for having participated in a military escapade against it and its military assets.”
Keating said Australia’s increasing enmeshment within the US military, especially through Aukus, was seeing Australia’s “sovereignty effectively being shredded”.
“Australia is now getting locked in and locked up to the military prerogatives of the United States.”
The Guardian revealed last week that the US military, and its corporate interests, control, or have access to, more than 100 military bases across the Australian continent. More than half of the military installations in Australia have some level of US control or access.
Intelligence sites such as Pine Gap play a critical role in US warfighting, downlinking masses of surveillance data from satellites, and providing targeting information for US strikes.
In parliament this week, Greens senator David Shoebridge seized on McCaul’s further comments that he considered Australia a “beachhead” for the US in its efforts to deter China and maintain peace in the region.
“The US spruikers of Aukus have said they want to make Australia the beachhead for US military war against China,” Shoebridge told a press conference at Parliament House.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/paul-keating-aukus-locking-australia-into-us-china-war](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rrigcgajvpkngw5ewsmqznjj/bafkreigtae4ebtw6lgm7fshqzefveahjanccmsbly3qw73x6rhrn43z5xm)
![Gaza coverage on ABC and SBS ‘overemphasised relative to other global conflicts’, Jillian Segal tells royal commission
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Jillian Segal, the special envoy to combat antisemitism, is the first to appear before the antisemitism royal commission this morning ahead of appearances later today by senior executives from the ABC and SBS.
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Segal submitted a statement to the royal commission that the “pervasive perception among the Australian Jewish community” of the coverage by the public broadcaster was “lacking balance” and “the conflict in Gaza being overemphasised relative to other global conflicts [and] disproportionately giving voice to anti-Israel perspectives, which exacerbated the prevalence of antisemitism in Australia and the conflation of Jewish identity with the state of Israel”.
She said:
[There is a] very strongly held perception from the Jewish community that the way in which the Gaza conflict, in particular, and the activities that are going on in the Middle East are reported have created an impression of great negativity about Israel.
It’s a very serious perception that a community under attack here in Australia feels that the trusted national broadcaster is not presenting the situation in the Middle East in a way that they think is not biased and accurate.
My contention is that that whole system is not working to assure all of us that the reporting is as per required, and that’s why I make the suggestion of an oversight exercise, a standing committee.
Segal said she wasn’t suggesting that the public broadcasters shouldn’t “cover matters they think are important”, but “there are also lots of important issues around the world”.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jul/09/australia-news-live-telstra-mobile-internet-down-outage-triple-zero-v-line-trains-network-royal-commission-antisemitism-abc-ntwnfb](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rrigcgajvpkngw5ewsmqznjj/bafkreibruzdwedfnbbn55pr6eno5ku3uu22pocfzxm4ppwrgrcfr4d6e2a)
![Australia’s foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has condemned the actions of a far-right Israeli minister who posted a video of himself abusing bound activists captured while trying to sail an aid flotilla to Gaza.
Wong joined international condemnation of the footage, which shows Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, waving an Israeli flag and mocking and taunting the detainees, including shouting: “The people of Israel live” in the face of one bound man.
Among the flotilla detainees are 11 Australian activists who were taken into custody by Israeli forces off the coast of Cyprus earlier this week, but it is not known if they were present in Ben-Gvir’s video.
In a statement, Wong said “the images we have seen are shocking and unacceptable”.
Itamar Ben-Gvir.
Israeli security minister stirs diplomatic outrage with flotilla activist abuse video
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“We condemn the actions of Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir – who Australia has sanctioned – and the degrading actions of Israeli authorities towards those detained,” Wong said on Thursday morning.
“I have asked Australia’s Ambassador to Israel to make representations to Israel, reiterating our call for the release of the detained Australians and for Israel to ensure no ill treatment of any detainees and to act in line with international obligations.”
In a post on social media, Wong added: “I have also directed DFAT [the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade] to call in Israel’s Ambassador to Australia to reinforce this message.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/penny-wong-condemns-israeli-minister-over-shocking-and-unacceptable-treatment-of-flotilla-activists-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rrigcgajvpkngw5ewsmqznjj/bafkreiex6nkc6ohxjxw2xvvngpqg3h6u23w4hq2mbqo5nbuda6iqe7fsle)
