Albo's cowardice is painting a target on our backs

March 12, 2026

The comment by Paul Dibb that: “The joint US–Australia intelligence facility at Pine Gap near Alice Springs will be by far China’s most important and time-urgent nuclear target." should send an ice-spike of fear down Albanese’s backbone, if indeed he has such a thing.

Many years ago, I was a student at ANU of what is now known as geopolitics and Des Ball was one of my tutors. I have written of this before but it needs repetition.

Pine Gap is unquestionably a highly prime target for any entity involved in combat with the USA that has the capability to strike at this distance.

And if that entity can strike Pine Gap, it will almost certainly also try to take out the back-up communications facility for Pine Gap. Which is the ‘Defence Installation’ you can easily discover on Google maps at Kent Street Deakin – about 3 kilometres blast radius from Parliament House.

It gives me no satisfaction to realise that The Lodge is about 500 metres closer to the potential point zero.

Suck that up, Albo, or maybe, just maybe – get some balls to protect Toto and Jodie, if you won’t act to save the rest of us.