Was Australia involved in Trump strike? You can’t know

What was the United Kingdom’s role in Donald Trump’s military attack on Iran at the weekend? He was not involved in England, but he knew before, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in question Shortly after.

What about France? French Foreign Minister, after “attracting attention with anxiety” France He had no role Planning or execution of bombings.

And another key for the US ally, Australia? I’m sorry, it can’t be told to you. Foreign Minister Penny Wong was asked again and again this morning, as part of the attack, such as pine cavity, such as the use of facilities were used. The answer both times was “we do not comment on intelligence issues”, but “the US clearly explained that these are unilateral strikes”.

This line echoed again when Anthony Arbanese spoke late this morning, and again when the attacks were “unilaterally” – Labour is a word chosen by choosing a paper to refuse to directly clarify the role of Australia. Considering that Tomahawk missiles initiated by the submarine were deployed as part of the US attack, intelligence or submarine communication collected by pine GAP or submarine communication was used through the Harold Holt VLF facility called EXMOUTH.

Therefore, it cannot be said whether Australian bases are used as part of an attack. Clearly illegal according to international law (I don’t even mention it in contradiction to the constitution in the USA), not provoked and is likely to increase the level of violence in the Middle East and to spread instability. Is it clear that the Australian party has no international order rule by the United States? An order that depends on Australia’s welfare? Don’t ask.

If you are a British, a large US Air Force capacity, living in a country with deep intelligence collecting ties with the United States, thinks that your Prime Minister has the right to know what role and know they know in the attacks. If you are French and Emmanuel Macron has watched that your government has the right to know whether France has played any role, if the US has been trying to lead the Western countries while withdrawing from the global order, including allowing the US to give up its nuclear program.

But if you’re Australian, bad luck. This morning he asked if Australia had already known the strikes, Wong refused to answer.

Indeed, there was little to say about the strikes yesterday, beyond a very neutral expression by an anonymous speaker. Defense Minister Richard Marles interviewed a Sky News early on Sunday morning before the strikes were opened to the public (probably knowing their timing), then disappeared. Magicly, his office released a media statement in the afternoon, but not on strikes. Instead, “Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Hon Richard Marles will go to England and the Netherlands this week.”

This is a lack of accountability than a government that adopts privacy, and in every bit and in some cases than its predecessors. Almost what 170 Ministry of Defense Media Personnel In fact, considering that most journalists refused to answer their queries,Crirase He also contacted Marles’s office and the Prime Ministry Office, asked for the role of Australia and ignored).

Certainly, rusty workers’ supporters will consider that this is only the media valuable or such criticism springs Ciikey’s Deep hostility for labor (because we are pro -green or pro -coalitation, it seems depending on who complains). However, there are layers on the layers of the reasons that Australians deserve to know. The main reason is that the facilities in Australia are financed by the Australian taxpayer dollars and the uses they are given are in the public interest. The reason for domestic policy is the potentially weakening of Australia’s security of security, exposing the Australian personnel to the responsibility of potential war crimes, and the government’s indifference to the processing of the genocide by Israel’s head beneficiary.

The strategic reason is a contribution: the world has changed and it took a return for more violence, instability and chaos. The primary reason for this global chaos is the country in which Australia’s security guarantee and the workers accelerated our military integration, to the extent that Marles undertakes Australia’s “geography” to a war with China. Labor refused to discuss this strategy publicly. Considering the disrespect of the government for transparency, such a discussion will be informed in a really bad way.