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So we are in the midst of the world's greatest remilitarisation since the Second World War, driven by the imperatives of the flailing US Empire.

The AUKUS War Pact places us at the very centre of this drive towards war.

So how should we imagine Australia's role in the world? Australia is not just a settler colonial state.

For much of the 20th century, it was also a direct colonial power in the Pacific.

And today, while Australia does not directly govern formally colonised nations like Papua New Guinea, or Nauru, it still dominates the South Pacific, in large part thanks to the geopolitical order established by the US.

As Clinton Fernandes describes the situation, Australia is a sub-imperial power that has transferred its subordination from its one-time colonial ruler, the United Kingdom, to its new imperial master, the United States of America, and it now acts to preserve the military and economic interests of its master state.

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What are the, the structural changes that are needed to try to provide protection against alleged offenders who may be able to reach a large number of children? Um, when we look at several of these cases, there are such long lists of childcare centers that some individuals worked at.

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It's a real warning sign.

Um, and I think what we found in our inquiry, um, and in the work that we did with Four Corners was, you know, this is, this is a-- it's a, it's a red flag when somebody is moving from center to center.

Uh, we've seen a proliferation in, in recent years of, of casual, um, educators moving from s- you know, from center to center and, and we've seen some other high-profile cases where we've had labor hire agencies, um, involved in, in, you know, the, the hiring and deployment of, of some of these now convicted, um, sex offenders.

Um, but ultimately, you know, we talk a lot about how we catch these people afterwards, um, but we don't talk enough about how we prevent them being able to get there in the first place.

Um, and what frustrates me is that, you know, the, the sector has been telling us so clearly that what we need to do is to ensure that we have adequate, you know, not just adequate, but really good staffing and really, you know, great professional, um, workforces in these centers.

Have we seen any meaningful, significant change in the past year with these centers? Are they safer than they were?

What would you say to the premier's comments about that?

Just extraordinary.

Like, shocked all over again by his response.

So the ICC, where the Israeli president was, was in a completely different direction to where protesters wanted to march, which was to Parliament.

That was made very clear.

Now, if they wanted those protesters [laughs] to stay away from the ICC, what they could have done is facilitated the march towards Parliament, which is in the opposite direction.

They didn't do that.

Is that a fair analogy or a comment to make, that you thought you were living in another country?