Hints and tips:
...Péter Magyar, a former regime insider (he held management roles in state-owned companies and is Varga’s former husband), has broken ranks....
...Gideon RachmanAnd when you say engage in war talk, it was people like, you know, I guess for an international audience, they might not know the names of people like Peter Dutton, who were explicitly raising...
...Peter Malinauskas, the South Australian premier, has warned that any move by the government to abandon plans to build the submarines in Australia would be called out as a “broken promise”....
...“The idea was that they were joining Australia, New Zealand and some of the Pacific islands countries trying to get the government to not sign the agreement,” Peter Kenilorea, an opposition lawmaker who...
...Michael Fullilove, executive director of the Lowy Institute think-tank, said Australia had been the “tip of the spear” in the Indo-Pacific region under Morrison, who since becoming prime minister in 2018...
...At a press conference alongside Wallace and Payne, as well as Peter Dutton, Australia’s defence minister, Truss sought to further justify the need for alliances such as Aukus....
...McGregor, an ex-FT journalist now at Sydney’s Lowy Institute think-tank, has been writing these lists for a while....
...China has increased aid, with grants peaking at $145m in 2018, according to the Lowy Institute, an Australia-based think-tank....
...“Canberra could, for example, subject the lease to six-monthly security reviews,” said Richard McGregor, an analyst at the Lowy Institute....
...Almost 30,000 people have been held in the facilities from 2013-19, according to Safeguard Defenders, a human rights group co-founded by Swedish citizen Peter Dahlin, who was himself held in a secret prison...
...Peter Mattis, a former CIA analyst, has told a US congressional commission that New Zealand’s participation in the Five Eyes should be reconsidered due to its close links with Beijing....
...A spokeswoman for Winston Peters, New Zealand's deputy prime minister and foreign affairs minister, said the country’s cabinet was not considering a haven proposal....
...“The last thing we want to do is imperil those populations,” said Winston Peters, New Zealand’s foreign minister....
...Peter Lee, senior oil and gas analyst at Fitch Solutions, added: “More lay-offs and announcements of bankruptcies certainly look possible.”...
...“Australia’s goal was to defuse conspiracy theories in both China and America,” says Michael Fullilove, head of the Lowy Institute, Australia’s largest think-tank....
...China is a major part of this step-up in engagement,” said Jonathan Pryke, analyst at Lowy Institute, a think-tank....
...Blaming the ills of the country on foreign companies, [as Mr Prabowo has done] is not exactly filling foreign investors with confidence,” said Peter Mumford, head of south-east and south Asia at Eurasia...
...Richard McGregor, analyst at the Lowy Institute, a Sydney-based think-tank, said Beijing had in the past been willing to “weaponise trade” in a way that damaged businesses in target countries and alarmed...
...Richard McGregor, an analyst at the Lowy Institute, a Sydney-based think-tank, said China was seeking partners in what had become a much rockier international outlook....
...“I think we are in danger of reaching peak veteran,” said Rodger Shanahan, a former military officer who is now an analyst at the Lowy Institute, a think-tank....
...Mr Morrison retained Peter Dutton, his other rival for the post of prime minister, in his previous role as home affairs minister....
...Having Mr Amin as vice-president is an “alarming prospect”, said Aaron Connelly, director of the south-east Asia project at the Lowy Institute....
...The additional funding follows an acknowledgment last week by Winston Peters, New Zealand’s deputy prime minister, that the South Pacific had become an “increasingly contested strategy space”....
...Sons Peter and Steven are co-chief executives at Westfield while David manages the family investments....
...“It’s very unlikely that Australia can make major inroads into the global arms market, despite this push,” says Euan Graham, analyst at the Lowy Institute, a think tank....
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