Who's got Dibbs on the paranoia?

August 8, 2025

Some of our more devoted Anglophiles have made substantial careers in Australia out of taking the British Empire’s view of the rest of the world as threatening to the empire.

That view was adopted by the new American empire which succeeded the collapse of the British in the early part of the last century. Most of these Anglophiles were attracted to the Conservative and often racist side of Australian politics.

Paul Dibb fitted comfortably into this 18th century mould when associated with Beazley, who, even though in the ALP, shared the attachment to much of the US and Anglocentric world view.

Dibb’s preferences also fitted neatly with the desire of the US to control the rest of the world and to contain any country that might be able to escape that control. Thus began the Australian obsession with China. Fortunately more rational voices in recent times have begun the process of bringing common sense and reality to the West’s unhealthy China obsession.

Richard Marles, on the other hand, without the intellectual heft, could be seen as the continuation of the infection of our political class by the United States Study Centre which has always been a propaganda organ of US policy! An excellent article by Mike!