Editorial

If the nations Donald Trump has named don’t agree to help in the Strait of Hormuz, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese might get a phone call.

It seems unthinkable that we would refuse a US request as it takes on the burden of a war. So why won’t the Government tell us what the US wants and what we have done about it?

The Albanese Government must act before the fuel crisis turns into a full-blown economic crisis.

Can anybody really imagine we would now turn down a request from our most significant ally and security blanket?

If confronted by the need to make a split-second decision, the Australian personnel in the region will not have time to sit back and ponder how to respond.

Should they seek asylum in this country, their families in Iran face imprisonment or worse. If that has not happened already.

Australia’s security has been tied to the US since World War II and remains so. The AUKUS program which has placed our sailors in US facilities is a key part of that.

Should the unthinkable happen and Australia come under direct military threat, it is a sure bet that it will not be a middle power that Australia turns to for help. 

The Treasurer has had plenty of time to rehearse his lines, but he should really study up on history and remember the old principle of saving for a rainy day.

Anthony Albanese must give Australians the clarity and transparency they deserve as the conflict in the Middle East worsens.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese must stay alive to the very real danger at hand as this is a fight the US and its allies must win.

Feelings of injustice will not be helped by the revelation that the number of senior officers in the ADF is continuing to soar.

The message must be getting through. Australians don’t like to be patronised or sneered at for their views.

For too long politics has been overriding sensible economic policy. And both sides of politics have been guilty.

Jewish accounts of anti-Semitism will surely tell a damning story about the forces that have been allowed to take hold and spread across this country.