Trump, Australia and the "Rules Based" Order

Michael West,'The world is getting smaller and more troubled by the day and these troubles and conflicts are spilling over to conflicts in our country in Australia throughout society. Even as parliament's going to be called back early to legislate speech laws on Monday arising from global conflicts essentially and international unrest. international law is right in focus with IR with the US looking like it's just about to um intervene in Iran again and we've just seen the invasion of Venezuela a few days ago. So tonight we've got a very special a very special guest, Professor Emily Crawford from theUniversity of Sydney Law School. It's great to have Emily on board for some technical legal assistance in looking at these things and wondering is Australia acting legally or not. And of course we've got Rex Patrick, the transparency warrior, the veteran legend of FOIs. Um, and Rex, of course, used to work as a serviceman in the Australian Defense Forces in a submarine or in various submarines back in the Colin class days and then became a senator for South Australia and served many years in parliament....'