The US-funded Canberra defence think tank that former Prime Minister Paul Keating called out as “a US cell” in its promotion of war with China is now smearing the campaign against bank branch closures in regional Australia as a “covert influence o
The same US and Australian political forces that have normalised talk of war with China have ripped an innocent Australian away from his wife and six children, holding him in solitary confinement, to make an example of him for their agenda.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has committed to dumping the policy for which “old Labor” legends John Curtin and Ben Chifley fought hardest—democratic control of the central bank and the banking system.