ANALYSIS: 'Downhill, one ski, no poles': Keating does politics fast and hard – and this week he posed profoundly important questions
But the government's thinking about whether we would become involved in a dispute over Taiwan is surely a threshold test for understanding our strategic environment.
The then Labor opposition leadership was briefed on the "top secret" plan the afternoon before it was announced, and Anthony Albanese declared Labor's full support the next day, without a proper or measured cabinet consideration of the proposal or the intelligence on which it was based. Peter Varghese, a former head of the Office of National Assessments and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, wrote in the Financial Review this week that "decisions of this magnitude can easily emerge in an echo chamber".
It ties our fate more closely to "the mistaken view that we can always rely on the United States to come to our defence".
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