On US-Iran war, Andrew Hastie is talking more sense than Labor

Who Who is the Shadow Defense Minister? Apparently, Angus Taylor, but no one has heard for more than a week, when the Morrison Government returned to the days of the government, the closure of coal -fired power plants in the occasional angry, except to be permanently kept in a permanent place. After performance during the recent election campaign, we now know why.

Fortunately, there is a backup for the burning remains of the coalition: the daily work is now the housework of Andrew Hastie, shadow defense minister.

This is the impression of the hurry of activity from the Western Australian Deputy in the last few days. After receiving Peter Dutton’s former Interior Computer from James Paterson, after Tony Burke allowed criminals to be released in the community, Hastie returned to a more familiar region at the weekend, with various media views, including various media views InsideAfter Trump’s attack on Iran.

Before the election, I suggested that Hastie would be a much better defense minister than a worker; inside Inside The interview exemplified what he could bring to his role.

The first was the observation of the unwanted consequences of the intervention to the Middle East – before the bombs began to fall, the coalition had to line up and withdraw the US.

I think it’s very dangerous and risky. We could see the regime change. We could see the collapse of the Iranian regime. We saw large scale migrations and refugees around the world, especially Europe. We do not know who fill the power gap and if there is a lesson from Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya: Watch out for what you want. Sometimes you know that the devil you know is especially better for stability. These order structures – as bad as they can be under such a cruel regime in Iran – when there is no order and only chaos is a very dangerous situation for the Iranian people, but the rest of the world.

From someone with a different past and especially a workers’ front bank, such comments would have described them as an unprepared WIMP to do a difficult job to destroy their enemies of freedom by News Corp. However, considering his military experience, there is no point in trying to try this line with Hastie.

Unlike most of the commentators and hawks who sent the Australians to Iraq and Afghanistan cheerfully, Hastie seems to have learned some lessons of the war against 20 years of terror, and the dangers of thinking that the West could lead to ranking again.

Hastie announced that Peter Dutton did not agree with Trumpian’s dismissal of the possible Australian peace protection in Ukraine. However, the most interesting words were about the US alliance. When asked what role Australia should be about the US operations carried out using Australian bases, Hastie answered:

We need to have a much more mature discussion about our relationship with the United States. I think we need more transparency. Secretary Hegseth appeared this week or last week at the Senate Armed Services Committee and talked about the Indian Pacific. ‘He called the Communist China as a threat of pacing – they are not mine. And he spoke of the US’s forward stance in the Indo Pacific and spoke especially from Australia, Japan and the Philippines. And so we are part of the integrated deterrence built by the US in the region. And I think the government needs to be clear what this means with the people of Australia. We need more transparency. I think we need to talk about the processing of the alliance, building protection rails for war operations, and of course defining our sovereignty. And this will make things clearer for us so that we can better protect our national interests. We are not just a vassal situation, we are an ally and a partner, and I think it’s time to make a good debate about what it looks like.

The strange nature of politics in 2025 is impossible to think that the Albanian government – and especially Richard Marles – will say something similar. Larger transparency from a government obsessed with confidentiality. Protecting for war operations building Labor doesn’t even specify whether we play a role in them. Define our sovereignty Instead of undermining the geography of Australia by prospering the China-US conflict.

We are not just a vassal situation – What a heresy.

For a good measure, Hastie repeated its purpose: ız If we are open and transparent about the time we started to mature the model and what this means to us with the Australian people, especially if there is a war in the Indo-Pacific region, we have a long-standing relationship, but I think we have matured and better. ”

It is impossible to say whether this is a real coalition policy. Hastie shadow is not the minister of defense and there is currently no real coalition policy. Previous coalition governments were rarely transparency models – exhibition A: Aukus disaster. However, even though it has been rusted to the United States, the coalition will always be ready to talk about changing the Australian-US relationship in the context of our sovereignty.