Twenty-six years after France was the most hated country in the region, Australia is now happy to have another nuclear-armed ally in the Pacific.
On January 27, 1996, just weeks before the election at which Anthony Albanese entered parliament, the French conducted their last nuclear test in the Pacific.
All trips on Albanese’s schedule are pretty much obligatory, especially for a newly elected leader, but the mob often doesn’t see that way. last week, that payout was hundreds of millions of dollars above what was contractually required but was handed over by the Albanese government anyway as an act of goodwill.It was only in November last year that Macron, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome,Morrison countered, arguing that Macron knew full well Australia was rethinking the decision because he told him as much when they dined at the Élysée Palace on June 15 that year.
“Very much so” is the view within government and the foreign policy establishment. With China the new regional villain, France is critically important in terms of its eagerness to increase its engagement in the Indo-Pacific, even if its previous iteration was overwhelmingly selfish and destructive. Albanese’s schedule is so packed that deputy Richard Marles was tasked with attending this week’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Rwanda.
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