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It is easy to forget that Winston Churchill was widely distrusted prior to becoming Prime Minister. Churchill’s story is echoed elsewhere. Australia’s two longest-serving Prime Ministers, Robert Menzies and John Howard, succeeded after having been dismissed as yesterday’s men.

The decision by Beijing to lift its restrictions on the import of Australian wine is pleasing, but much of the resultant celebration is misplaced. Australia should come to a realistic understanding of the capricious nature of the Chinese regime.

Lamenting the inattention to the Quad, the multilateral relationship involving Australia, India, Japan and the United States of America, former Japanese ambassador to Australia, Shingo Yamagami, warned: "The strategic reality the Quad faces has not changed for the better."

The irony of taking two fuel-guzzling jets to make an environmental announcement seems lost on Chris Bowen, who is intent on telling Australians that they should dispense with their fossil-fuelled vehicles in favour of electric cars and utes.

The announcement by the Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, that the Albanese government would recognise a Palestinian state is a crass domestic political statement. It even fails to establish the necessary preconditions for the recognition of Palestine.

The controversy involving Facebook’s decision to deny access to thousands of sites in Australia calls for a review of the laws relating to traditional media and new online services.

There is only one significant question worth asking about the Australian government’s naval review: when will the ships actually be delivered?

The claim that President Donald Trump allegedly had threatened to withdraw the USA from NATO attracted considerable media attention. What the story did highlight was the inadequate amount that some European nations have been spending on their own defence.

China's economy will be increasingly subject to the dictates of the CCP’s state-dominated model, which Xi believes is superior to Western capitalism. The dangers for investors — and, by extension, trading partners such as Australia — are clear.

The distribution of GST funds collected by the Australian government to the states and territories often results in a fight over the outcome. This is a certainty in Australian politics, repeated over the years.

The Australian government has recently released a report with incomplete and potentially misleading information to justify its claims about a so-called gender pay gap.

The head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Mike Burgess, stated that a former Member of Parliament had been a spy for an unnamed foreign regime. The regime is widely believed to be the Chinese Communist Party.

The admission by Defence Minister Richard Marles that there was much to be done for his department to lift its game in order to achieve a culture of excellence blew the lid on simmering tensions in relations with the minister.

Is China about to invade Taiwan? In his New Year’s address, Xi Jinping claimed that the ‘reunification’ was inevitable. A functioning democracy in Taiwan is an affront to Xi Jinping and the CCP.

The revelation that 35 per cent of recent applicants failed the Australian Citizenship Test is of concern. The data shows the pass rate under Labor has fallen to 65 per cent compared to about 80 per cent under the Coalition between 2017 and 2021.

If the reaction of the Australian government to the imposition of a suspended death penalty on Yang Hengjun is any indication of future attitudes to the CCP, it is dangerous and depressing.

The attack on the statue of Cook demonstrates the historical amnesia of the vandals. He didn’t ‘invade’ Australia. Nor did he establish a colony, contrary to the slogan painted on the plinth of his statue asserting that ‘the colony will fall.’

A Chinese ‘scholar’, Jin Canrong, recently launched an attack on the Greek philosopher, claiming there is no written record from before the 13th century that can prove Aristotle’s existence.

What is different about the current situation is that it is occurring so early in the life of a new government and that the slump is driven by a leadership vacuum.

Imagine the outcry from the Chinese regime if an Australian naval vessel had set off its sonar system at divers from a PLA ship while they were attempting to disentangle fishing nets from their propeller in a third country’s economic zone.