Latika Bourke
@latikambourke · Oceania
Latika Bourke is followed by Storyz World for journalism and current affairs coverage connected to Australia in the Oceania chapter.
Xi is resuming travel in a big way.
Kevin Rudd says there is now a one-in-three chance Xi Jinping makes a military grab for Taiwan. https://t.co/wEtTOpOH6x https://t.co/FN0MR6GrdF
New UK Labour PM Andy Burnham: "We do everything to support our national security, but it can't come at the expense of social security." https://t.co/GRABq0xVn9
Australia a surprising omission from the @andyburnham - led action against the @netanyahu government, which led to ZERO scolding from US Secretary of State @SecRubio, but claims of anti-semitism from Israel's foreign minister @gidonsaar. @Ed_Miliband 📰 Read more in @thenightlyau: https://t.co/DxSRZ1sCSe
Remarkable. Ukraine says it used a drone boat to attack the Russians in Sochi, Russia. That's a heck of a distance.
Actually great to hear new Chancellor John Healey say he wants to double the number of unicorns in UK. This sort of aspirational ambition is the biggest missing factor in the UK compared to US and Australia imho. https://t.co/FDasDtADB2
Reform UK's @Nigel_Farage has peaked, says John Curtice, BUT, there's only one way he could still become PM. ➡️ Read more in @thenightlyau: https://t.co/ym5PyzZ8Y6 https://t.co/Q6BPg6xHZ1
If Farage can't be bothered to listen to his right-hand man plotting ways to circumvent electoral laws right in front of him (and put a stop to it) how could he be trusted to listen during integrity, intelligence and security briefings as PM? https://t.co/dBvJoIhmQf
Hello Jaishanker on his first ever solo visit to Kyiv 👀 https://t.co/M0yYUSNZUG
NEW Germany's military chief Carsten Breuer says he's worried Russia could exploit the rebalancing of NATO before Europe is ready. https://t.co/W7fURCjXoo https://t.co/TExcxtzUwF
Kept secret. Now telling you pay the attempted Russian attack on Germany.
“We are not deterring — not deterring enough — in this sphere of hybrid attacks.” Germany's Defence Chief Carsten Breuer says NATO IS deterring Russia conventionally, but not against Russia's escalatory attacks. Today, NATO Boss Mark Rutte meets European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to coordinate responses to Germany's declaration that Russia masterminded a drone attack on the German Leizig/Halle airport, used by militaries and Ukraine. From the Bled Strategic Forum, my latest article for The Nightly. https://t.co/1SnG5x2JTB
Wow. Putin fears being hanged by his own people if his five-year-long Special Military Operation that he started ends without any gains, insiders tell The Economist. https://t.co/wVABUT2rte https://t.co/Jprsno1IFW
🇭🇺 PM Magyar jokes that his polling is so high post ousting Orban that its akin to North Korean polling. He agrees with Babic that 2027 elections determine Europe's future. He says he will be more constructive than Orban in Europe but will still defend Hungary's interests. https://t.co/QMoSGjjX4I
🇨🇿 PM Babic at Bled Strategic Forum says the last Czech Govt lost power because they spent 4 years talking about the war in Ukraine and he won because he talked about everyday lives. He says Europe's future will be decided by elections across Europe next year, esp France. https://t.co/Ma7MxXC3Eo
🇸🇮 🇪🇺 'If Europe does not enlarge, someone else will, at our expense.' Slovenia's PM Janez Jansa on EU enlargement at the Bled Strategic Forum. https://t.co/P3qc6CMRuk
Labor's small-target strategy is finally catching up with Anthony Albanese. My column in The Nightly https://t.co/aiqzp3Tmnl https://t.co/PI4XHPZfeU
Lost count of how many UK Defence Secretaries Australia's Richard Marles has dealt with in the last five years, but he's on his way to the UK to meet the latest successful contestant - Wes Streeting. They will discuss AUKUS in London later in the week. https://t.co/nfXQCgJmwj
I see the Australian government is discussing regulating algorithms. Here's a story I wrote in 2024 about this. https://t.co/MATsF3YLKR https://t.co/fZUZXrbytk
Pauline Hanson's populist party continues to shatter Australian politics. One Nation just won a state byelection in a safe Labor seat in a state that's been dominated by Labor rule at the state and federal level for a decade. PM Anthony Albanese won't be able to escape the fact that he was firmly in the firing line of angry voters who want change.
WA can help solve some of the world's 'crazy' problems, WA Minister tells global oil and gas conference, ONS, in Norway. https://t.co/xgwUAnh622 https://t.co/hKXFACFnRa
Trump says he's spoken to Putin and he won't be attacking NATO territory.
NEW NATO boss Mark Rutte meets Elbridge Colby in BRX tomorrow. https://t.co/kY7yctZftH
Has anyone been more unifying than Dolly Parton? Even in death the Queen rewrites the status quo. A light extinguished and we all recognise it. https://t.co/NFvcvkPXPw
Geopolitical shocks a boost for coal, IEA Chief Fatih Birol tells oil and gas ONS conference in Stavanger, Norway. My latest in The Nightly: https://t.co/0UChEPVQFd https://t.co/PteuxA0xWB
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