Matthew Knott
@KnottMatthew
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Foreign affairs & national security correspondent: The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age. Got a ticket to ride. Please send tips/ideas to [email protected]
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined November 2009
RT @Dr_M_Davis: This is very dissapointing indeed. These sorts of dialogues between Australian and US defence officials are important in th….
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‘Make Agriculture Great Again’: Trump administration claims major win on Australian beef
smh.com.au
The government insists the move to allow US beef into Australia is the result of a biosecurity review rather than trade talks, but the Trump administration undercut that on Thursday.
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PM Albanese has appointed @DanRepacholi to the new role of special envoy for men's health. He spoke to me about his passion for this topic during the campaign
smh.com.au
The Labor MP from the Hunter – with a bushranger-style beard, an imposing two-metre physique and a love of hamburgers – says he has seen first-hand how many men don’t speak about their troubles.
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RT @kenmoriyasu: Joseph Nye, a former dean of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, died on Tuesday. Nye conceptualiz….
asia.nikkei.com
Foreign policy expert viewed Japan as key to preventing Chinese hegemony
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‘He did right by me’: Julian Assange endorses Anthony Albanese for a second term in rare intervention
smh.com.au
The WikiLeaks founder has broken his silence to back Anthony Albanese’s re-election, saying no public figure did more to secure his release from jail.
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Not only does Donald Trump have a mobile phone, he picks up for unknown numbers.
The President of the United States answers unknown numbers lmao
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‘It is accurate’: Website stands by controversial Russian aircraft story
smh.com.au
Indonesia’s foreign ministry has left open the prospect of regular Russian military visits to the nation, saying it welcomed co-operation with friendly nations.
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RT @ukpapers: 🇦🇺 How AUKUS Takes Toll On Defence Spending. ▫Army. Air force. Navy … AUKUS? The nuclear submarine program could soon cost as….
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‘I was wrong’: Coalition frontbencher apologises for saying Russia and China want Labor to win election
smh.com.au
After the Coalition called on Jakarta to curtail its defence ties with Moscow, one frontbencher claimed Russia and China didn’t want Peter Dutton as PM.
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‘Simply not true’: Indonesia rejects reports of Russian military base
smh.com.au
Australia’s northern neighbour has reassured the federal government that Russia will not be allowed to base long-range aircraft 1400 kilometres from Darwin.
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Breaking: Australian officials investigating reports that Russia is seeking to base long-range military aircraft in Indonesia
smh.com.au
Australia’s northern neighbour has reassured the federal government that Russia will not be allowed to base long-range aircraft 1400 kilometres from Darwin.
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RT @nfergus: “The last grand strategists: what Brzezinski and Kissinger could teach Trump” trails @EdwardGLuce’s Zbig book, which I am gr….
ft.com
Living parallel lives, they counselled presidents and changed the course of the cold war. How would they steer America today?
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What @paulsakkal and I observed on week one of the campaign trail.
The attempt to paint Dutton as a Trump acolyte is simplistic & in many ways inaccurate: for example, it was Dutton who first rubbished Trump for his Ukraine stance. But Labor believes it can score big by connecting the pair in voters' minds @KnottMatthew.
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Chinese firm Landbridge set to be stripped of its controversial lease of the Port of Darwin
smh.com.au
The Coalition will use its first major national security policy of the election campaign to announce that in government it would seize control of the port if required.
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A Surprising Route to the Best Life Possible
nytimes.com
Why people do things that are unpleasantly hard.
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Japan and the US have been rapidly deepening defence ties to compete with China. Now they are on the verge of economic warfare. So much for US alliances - first in Europe, now in Asia.
Japan says ‘every option’ on table against Donald Trump’s 25% car tariffs via @FT.
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RT @melnickjeffrey1: Joan Didion: "When I realized I had been added to the Secretary of Defense's group chat, I felt that familiar vertigin….
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‘Gangster regime’: Hong Kong dissident Ted Hui targeted by threatening letter
smh.com.au
An exiled Hong Kong activist has insisted he will not be silenced after his Australian law firm received a threatening letter offering a reward for his arrest.
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