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3 days ago | 
johnmenadue.com | John Menadue
We talk glibly about our future in Asia, but we are stuck in a US and UK media cul de sac. The Washington consensus and our legacy media frames and conditions our thinking and actions. It promotes fear of Asia, the yellow peril. An updated post from August 23, 2021The White Paper Australia in the Asian Century in 2012 singled out our need to work with Australian media through its representative bodies, to ensure that Australians received more and better coverage of the Asian region.
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1 week ago | 
chinadailyhk.com | John Menadue
With the unreliability of the United States (US) and Donald Trump, it is clearer than ever before that the US is not only the most aggressive and violent nation in history, but also a very unreliable ally as Malcolm Fraser reminded us many years ago. First, we relied on the UK for security and trade. That reliance ended in tears in Singapore. Then we encouraged the Americanization of Australia across a wide field. The international and domestic fragility of the US is now plain.
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1 week ago | 
johnmenadue.com | John Menadue
But his record does not give grounds for confidence. In his National Press Club address, PM Albanese referred to the “trust deficit” in other democracies such as the US. The clear inference is that Australia does not have a “trust” deficit. We may be doing better in “trust” than the shambles that the US is becoming, but by almost any measure we are losing trust in our major institutions – parliament, media, business, universities, churches and many more.
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2 weeks ago | 
johnmenadue.com | John Menadue
Our business sector lacks the skills to do business in Asia. And instead of improving, the situation is getting markedly worse. With the unreliability of the US and Donald Trump, it is clearer than ever before that the US is not only the most aggressive and violent nation in history, but also a very unreliable ally as Malcolm Fraser reminded us many years ago. First, we relied on the UK for security and trade. That reliance ended in tears in Singapore.
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1 month ago | 
amust.com.au | John Menadue
Photo: Sydney, Australia. 21st October 2023.
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1 month ago | 
johnmenadue.com | John Menadue |Paul Keating
On almost every measure, Australia has gone backwards on engaging with our region, and particularly with China, and it is time to do something about it. As a settler society we cling to our history with the UK, Europe and now the US. We are fearful of our geography. We have failed so far to reconcile our history and geography. We remain reluctant to embrace our region. For example, Australian and Chinese histories, cultures and systems of government are different, so we must learn about each other.
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1 month ago | 
chinadailyhk.com | John Menadue
As expressed in the UN General Assembly, the vast majority of the world’s governments and peoples agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and now the West Bank. The main supporters of Israel — the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the settler colonial states — have all expropriated their indigenous populations and find little disagreement with Israel doing the same. What an abysmal state Australia is in when we deliberately turn away from the mass murder of Palestinians.
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1 month ago | 
chinadailyasia.com | John Menadue
As expressed in the UN General Assembly, the vast majority of the world’s governments and peoples agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and now the West Bank. The main supporters of Israel — the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the settler colonial states — have all expropriated their indigenous populations and find little disagreement with Israel doing the same. What an abysmal state Australia is in when we deliberately turn away from the mass murder of Palestinians.
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1 month ago | 
johnmenadue.com | John Menadue
As expressed in the UN General Assembly, the vast majority of the world’s governments and peoples agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and now the West Bank. The main supporters of Israel — the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the settler colonial states — have all expropriated their indigenous populations and find little disagreement with Israel doing the same. What an abysmal state Australia is in when we deliberately turn away from the mass murder of Palestinians.
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1 month ago | 
share.google | John Menadue
As expressed in the UN General Assembly, the vast majority of the world’s governments and peoples agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and now the West Bank. The main supporters of Israel — the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the settler colonial states — have all expropriated their indigenous populations and find little disagreement with Israel doing the same. What an abysmal state Australia is in when we deliberately turn away from the mass murder of Palestinians.
