Memo Wong: first, resurrect integrity

July 21, 2025

If Australia’s “diplomatic, economic, strategic and military capabilities are all going in the same direction", should they be if one or more of those elements is deliberately going in the wrong direction?

Marles has only ever shown the delight of the incompetent in being allowed to play with his superiors, going along with whatever they say. Hence our increasing military absorption into the US warmonger machine. Marles should be dumped. His replacement by someone even halfway more competent would be a definite improvement.

Wong, on the other hand, is smart but seems to have left her integrity at the door on becoming Foreign Minister. To put her foot down she needs to regrow her spine. The best thing Wong could do for Australia is to say No to the US, say we will no longer be available to automatically support any of its unjustified military “adventures”. An easy way to demonstrate this would be to stand up and say we don’t support US complicity in genocide in Gaza and that we will adopt BDS immediately. Following that, Wong could give more attention to our Pacific neighbours and their forthcoming disappearance under the sea if her fellow Minister Watt’s decisions prevail.