I fear it will be choice No 2 where Taiwan will be the new Sudeten land because everyone is running scared of the Chinese muscle and the USA will back off to the Philippines and let China dominate the rest of the Pacific.
Neville Chamberlain EB. But the world sits idly by and waits.
Probably less value given we acquired him with a dodgy Achilles injury, was never a fan of that amount being paid for a rebound only defender but the market sets the price and he had multiple suitors.
All points to the general dearth of talent in the comp and the gambles clubs must make. Sorta highlights the stupidity in recruiting from time to time, but swings and roundabouts.
In defence of Payne, it seems that she wanted to do more in the South Pacific but was blocked by her colleagues. That said, her authoritarian approach was more likely to put our neighbours offside.
'Fraid I have to disagree @DGC ... I think she is / was weak and more than reluctant on a social level to communicate with the electorate. A very poor minister. In fact pitiful
They are clearly spoiling for an incident to trigger something more major and I'd be forgetting about kissing and making up with them like Albo and Penny Wong want to do and taking a more hardline approach and tooling up our military more.
They are aggressive but their greatest weakness, in my opinion, is a complete misunderstanding of western culture and our tolerance toward threats.
"you must treat us with respect" being one of them. GAGF.
Parties do get a honeymoon early on, and that's when they need to go hard with the tough decisions. Hopefully by the time the next election comes around they're in a position to hand out a few sweeteners.
So... inseparable AFLW players get matching tattoo's on their feet! Now that makes it official. I'm totally unable to make sense of today's young ladies 🤔