International and domestic policy have collided in Australia in recent weeks with a force not seen in decades.
Foreign policy concerns have dominated media headlines, from the Chinese research vessel travelling along the south coast (and the Chinese navy’s circumnavigation of Australia), to the continued war in Ukraine, the resumption of hostilities in Gaza and US President Donald Trump’s mercurial approach to foreign policy.
This has brought home to the Australian public, and its political leaders, how tenuous our geostrategic and economic circumstances are.
