Australia to provide military support to Gulf states
www.abc.net.au
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirms the Australian Defence Force will deploy an E-7A Wedgetail aircraft to the Gulf to help protect and defend the region, providing long-range reconnaissance activity.

In short:

Australia will send a military aircraft and 85 ADF personnel to the United Arab Emirates to assist in the defence of Gulf nations that have been attacked by Iran.

They will be operational by the end of the week for an initial four-week period for the “collective self-defence of Gulf nations”.

What’s next?

Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Iran’s attacks on neighbouring countries escalated overnight.

  • eureka@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    And somehow they ensured greens/socialist can’t raise enough funds

    Could you expand on this? Who is “they” and how are they doing this?

    • MisterFrog@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      I’ll preference the Greens over Labor because the Labor party is a centre-right party, but fuck, the Greens had such a sook when they lost at the last federal election, even claiming that preferential voting was somehow unfair.

      Like???

      Wtf.

      Git gud The Greens, Christ.

      P.S. I think single member electorates ought to be expanded to 3 member electorates (and maybe increase the number of lower house MPs by 50%), to mitigate against a party getting less than 50% of the vote (after preferences) but more than 50% of the seats and therefore 100% of the power.

      I’m not for state-wide proportional in the lower house though, because it’ll make forming government too difficult in my opinion (evidenced by Tasmania and a bunch of European countries where that’s a thing). I think having a proportional upper house with Hare-Clark is pretty decent as a tempering.

    • redwattlebird@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I think this is what that person was referring to.

      Greens are big enough to weather it but it shafts all of the independents and smaller parties. When this was passed, I felt in my gut that the primary purpose was to try and limit the spread of the Teal wave from taking over Lib seats.

      They should have dropped AUKUS. They should have done a lot of things but it seems like Labor just want to continue the status quo from Scomo.