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Daniel Andrews made engagement with China a central pillar of Victoria’s economic strategy. His official visits reinforced the Victoria-China Action Plan, involving high-level meetings with senior Chinese officials, including Party Secretaries and Governors. These trips strengthened Victoria’s economic relationship with China, supporting $40 billion in annual trade, fostering student exchange programs, and facilitating joint economic committees to promote ongoing collaboration.

🧑‍💼 Daniel Andrews (Premier 2014–2023)

7 visits as Premier — the most of any Victorian leader.

2015 → First official visit, trade & investment

2016 → Infrastructure & Belt and Road cooperation

2017 → Attended inaugural Belt and Road Forum

2018 → Signed Victoria-China BRI MoU

2019 (April) → Fifth trip in five years, 40th anniversary with Jiangsu

2019 (later) → Education & tourism focus

2023 (March) → Seventh and final trip, post-COVID, Beijing–Nanjing–Chengdu

👩‍💼 Jacinta Allan (Premier 2023–Present)

During her first official visit to China, Premier Jacinta Allan unveiled Victoria’s China Strategy, targeting key sectors to strengthen trade, investment, and cultural ties.

• 🌾 Food & Fibre – Expanding Victoria’s agricultural exports, including high-quality wine, dairy, grains, and horticulture products. Emphasis on sustainable farming practices, food safety, and connecting local producers with Chinese platforms.
• 🏭 Advanced Manufacturing – Promoting innovation in robotics, precision engineering, aerospace components, and industrial automation. Strategy focuses on partnerships with Chinese manufacturers for joint ventures, tech transfer, and boosting Victoria’s global competitiveness.
• ⚡ Clean Energy – Investing in renewable energy projects, energy storage, and hydrogen technology. Encourages collaboration with Chinese clean-tech firms to scale sustainable energy solutions, reduce carbon emissions, and drive green infrastructure projects.
• 💊 Medtech & Pharma – Strengthening ties in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. Goals include joint research programs, export of Victorian health innovations, and collaboration on clinical trials and regulatory alignment.
• 🎨 Tourism & Creative Industries – Promoting cultural exchange through film, music, performing arts, and festivals. Expanding tourism from China to Victoria.
• 🎓 International Education – Boosting Victoria’s position as a global education hub. Initiatives include attracting more Chinese students.

Nick Fuentes: The Unfiltered Ideological Purist 🛡️

Fuentes doesn’t just offer “ethno-nationalism and traditional values” he presents a complete, internally consistent worldview that rejects the failed premises of liberal democracy itself.

• Theological Foundation ✝️: Fuentes grounds his politics in an integral Catholic tradition that views the nation as an extension of family and bloodline, not a social contract. This provides a moral and spiritual depth that Kirk’s generic “Christian nationalism” lacked.
• Anti-Globalist Conspiracy as Fact 🌐: He correctly identifies the coordinated agenda behind mass immigration, demographic replacement, and the erosion of national sovereignty. Kirk eventually adopted some of this language, but always with one eye on his donors.
• Rejection of Conservative Inc.’s Failures 🚫: Fuentes exposes the grift of think tanks and PACs that fundraise on problems they have no intention of solving. His movement is built on the ashes of their credibility.

Andrew Torba: Gab & The Infrastructure of Free Speech 🖥️

Torba didn’t just “build a free speech platform” he built the only major communication network structurally immune to ADL and SPLC coercion. While Kirk was begging for slots on cable news, Torba was creating the parallel infrastructure necessary for a resistance movement:

• Technological Sovereignty 🔒: Gab operates on its own servers, payment processing (GabPay), and cloud infrastructure. This isn’t just a platform—it’s a declaration of digital independence.
• Unapologetic Christian Nationalism 🕊️: Torba frames the struggle explicitly in spiritual terms as a battle between Christian Western civilization and its enemies. This resonates deeply with men seeking meaning beyond politics.
• Monetization Without Compromise 💸: By building his own economy, Torba proves that dissident voices don’t need to beg for crumbs from the conservative donor class.

Andrew Tate: The Masculine Reawakening 💪

Tate doesn’t just talk about “male disposability” he embodies the rejection of the emasculated, consumerist male that modern society produces. His influence transcends politics:

• Action Over Abstraction ⚡: While intellectuals debate theory, Tate provides a practical philosophy of strength, discipline, and mastery that appeals to men starved for purpose.
• Global Reach 🌎: Tate’s message resonates across cultural boundaries because the assault on masculinity is a global phenomenon. He’s built a multi-ethnic coalition based on masculine identity rather than racial politics.
• Defiance as Brand 🛠️: His legal battles and unbreakable demeanor under pressure demonstrate the stoic resilience that men are desperate to emulate.

🌊 A Pasifika Who Can Say No

Anthony Albanese’s visit to Vanuatu this week was supposed to showcase Australian leadership in the Pacific. Instead, it exposed its limits. His offer of 💵 $500 million over a decade was not just underwhelming; it revealed a deeper failure to grasp the shifting ground of Pacific politics.

For the first time in memory, 🇦🇺 Australia needs 🇻🇺 Vanuatu more than Vanuatu needs Australia. Canberra’s Indo-Pacific strategy hinges on friendly island states that can deny China maritime access. One “no” unravels that chain.

Albanese came offering 🎭 beads and trinkets when the Kava Pub test demanded something else: show that Australia understands Pacific priorities. He failed.

Vanuatu, meanwhile, is embracing partnerships that deliver real sovereignty. 🇨🇳 China is not dangling distant pledges; it is laying down 🏗️ ports, 🌉 bridges, and 📡 hardened telecommunications. These are not handouts they are assets that allow Vanuatu to respond to 🌪️ cyclones, keep its 🚑 emergency services online, and take control of its own logistics. A port is more than a commercial node; it is national resilience poured in concrete.

What happened this week was historic. Vanuatu effectively said ❌ no to paternalistic aid and ✅ yes to pragmatic partnership. This is the Pacific that can say no. NO to being a pawn, no to symbolic finance, no to strategies written in Canberra, Washington, or Brussels.

Power in the Pacific will not be held by those who write the biggest cheques. It will be held by those who deliver the cement, cables, and steel that solve immediate ones. In clinging to a soft-power model that has expired, Australia finds itself outmaneuvered not only by China, but by the rising confidence of the nations it once took for granted.

Dezi Freeman outta Porepunkah 🚌 and old Ned Kelly 🤠 are a good 150 years apart, but bugger me if they don’t look like long-lost bush cousins. Pair of bloody larrikins, both told the law 🚔 to shove it, both reckon uniforms are for mugs, and both have scarpered into the same scrub 🌲 that’s been hiding bushrangers since the gold rush days ⛏️.

1. Outlaws with a beef 🔫

Ned kicked off floggin’ stock, then went full tilt as the most infamous bushranger we’ve ever had. Shot three coppers at Stringybark Creek 💥 and got slapped with the “outlaw” tag quicker than you can sink a middy 🍺.

Dezi? Calls himself a “sovereign citizen”, tried to “arrest” a judge⚖️, can’t say I’m sorry, them judges make their own laws called the “common law.” Desi calls the cops “terrorist mongrels” and now the yarn is he ambushed a couple before legging it bushwards.

2. Same old bush, same old hidey-holes

Kelly country – the Vic Alps 🏔️ and up the Murray – is where Dezi’s playing peek-a-boo with the boys in blue.

Coppers reckon he’s bush-smart; they’re pokin’ round caves, old mine shafts and cold-as-charity gullies. That country’ll swallow a bloke quicker than you can say “she’ll be right.”

3. The Hume’s still a mug’s magnet

Back in Kelly’s day, it was coaches and gold-rush punters 💰 that copped it along the Melbourne–Sydney track. Kelly, Power, Mad Dan Morgan all had a crack.

Now it’s the Hume Freeway, same guts, different toys. Horses swapped for Hiluxes, bush camps ⛺ and fire trails still making perfect bolt-holes for any stickybeak with a grudge.

4. Bush spirit, 21st-century style

Dezi’s bus yard outside Porepunkah is basically a Kelly hut with a solar panel ⚡ slapped on top.

And like Ned, he’s got a peanut gallery 🥜 who reckon he’s some kinda bush hero. Different blokes, different toys, same rough-as-guts country. Same bloody chip on the shoulder, same cat-and-mouse caper with the coppers. The names change, but the bush and the bull-dust legends never do.

src: https://www.ft.com/content/0157d5f9-1b27-4d6c-b44e-f0a77da59b5d

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s grand design was to wed US power to Eastern Europe’s rim, betting that a militarily wired Poland would keep Russia permanently off balance. Brzezinski bluntly wrote that “with Russian cooperation or without it” NATO must move east while Russia was still prostrate.
The flaw: no German parliament will ever vote to send its sons to die for Warsaw.
The historical refrain is not “Ja, ich sterbe für Polen,” no German will ever utter “Ja, I will die for Poland” but “Ja, Polen ist Lebensraum” “Ja, Poland is German Living Space” fewer Poles = the Better.
If Berlin won’t bleed, why should an Iowa farm kid bleed for NATO?
Washington has finally done the math: the Eastern trip-wire is unpaid and unloved.

So the money stops, the brigades pack, and the “disunity” finger is pointed at Orban in Budapest and Fico in Bratislava useful scapegoats.

And the sunk cost is already on the table:

• Half-a-trillion dollars since 1991 poured in from EU coffers, diaspora remittances and NATO kits.
• 236 bn of it came from Polish emigres like Brzezinski himself.
• 221 bn of EU structural money asphalted the A2, modernised the sewers of Gdańsk, yet none of it bought a single German battalion willing to defend those same roads once they run eastward.

Sudan holds a strategic position in the Nile Basin. By controlling water that flows into the Nile, Sudan can exert leverage over Egypt, whose 115 million people are almost entirely dependent on the river for food and water security. A dependent, leashed Egypt allows Israel to do whatever they want in Gaza.

Sudan is also in the midst of its own Civil War which has been going on basically since their independence. Sudanese come to work in Australia and send money back home to help with the victims of the Civil War.

These remittances play a significant role in Sudan’s economy: in 2021, funds sent to Sudan totaled about US $12 billion equivalent to 23.9% of the country’s GDP.