Paul Bongiorno
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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took a harder line and they said it was China intimidating the region, which is interestingly, the prime minister of the Solomons actually agrees with James Patterson when he says China was trying to intimidate us.
It's not the action of a friend and we will not be intimidated.
There's a very interesting view, which I hadn't appreciated until I spoke to Sam Roggeveen from the Lowy Institute, who's a security expert.
He actually agrees and accepts the explanation of the Chinese foreign ministry that this test was routine and according with international law.
He says that what happens with nuclear armed states and submarines, they test their weapons, which are reactive weapons.
They're defensive to be fired in terms of if there's any nuclear attack on the mainland or on Chinese assets or American assets.
And Roggeveen pointed out in the past 12 months alone, the Americans have carried out four of these tests in their Pacific ballistic testing range.
Wale, the Prime Minister of the Solomon, says, in fact, the Pacific Island nations don't want anybody testing ballistic missiles in the Pacific.
There are critics I was reading yesterday in New Zealand that say that Australia, New Zealand and some of the Pacific Islands, you know, are a bit too faced about this.
They don't criticise America doing exactly what they criticise China for.
And under successive governments now, Australia's basically become a military outpost of the United States.
Well, Daniel, I think it's very important that the Australian government deal with the Pacific Island nations according to its own policies on a whole range of key issues.
And I think what has been overlooked in some of the reporting, very high up, in fact, in a key passage of the treaty between Australia and Fiji, the document says that
that climate change, quote, is the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security and well-being of Pacific peoples.
Sidovani Rambuka, the prime minister of Fiji, actually pointed out that climate change is an existential and present threat to these nations.
And they are looking for not only Australia, but the rest of the world community also.
to take more notice and to treat the issue with more urgency.
And that, of course, is a real split or fissure between the policies of the Australian Labor government and the Liberal National Party opposition.
And by the way, also One Nation, who actually thinks that climate change science is a joke and a hoax, quote unquote.
Yeah, that's right.
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