Let’s indeed “play peace”
I hope many P&I readers will pay close attention to this excellent article. It has a lightness of “touch” but its truths couldn’t be more “weighty”. We should be – and could be – a remarkable “center for PEACE” in the Asia/Pacific area, taking a far less subservient posture in relation to the corrupt and fast-fading war “empires” beloved on the LNP and of R Marles (to Labor’s shame). We should be – could be – learning FROM Indonesia, encouraging our best and brightest to do many job swaps, to include knowledge of Indonesia in their professional education, and to offer heavily subsidised educational opportunities TO Indonesian students, rather than the malignant attitudes of Dutton & Co, and the money-grubbing attitudes of university vice-Chancellors. Idiocy reigns, but need not.
From the NT, Indonesia is closer than the Australian East Coast is. Think about that! And how they may be observing the noxious “build up” of US troops on these sacred lands.
From the NT also, Australian doctors are deeply engaged with health needs in Timor Leste.
Sharing and mutually building health and education services ESSENTIAL to peace. $385 billion could build many bridges to unprecedented understanding, mutual safety and security.
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