Since 2024, Australia has also concluded a string of security agreements of varying form. All are aimed squarely at maintaining Australia’s dominant position as a neo-colonial power in the south-west Pacific.
Australia boasts of belonging to the “Pacific family” and is motivated only by a desire to help its neighbours. It’s hard to reconcile this rosy self-image with Australia’s history of bullying, espionage and greed in East Timor.
The Australian capitalist class is doubling down on the alliance with the US that has served its interests well for decades. In doing so, it risks dragging us all into a deadly confrontation between nuclear-armed rivals.
