Russian president Vladimir Putin (left) and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the G20 summit in 2018. Photo: AAP
The Prime Minister introduced what may be one of the greatest interpretations of a threat to this nation in its military history.
Nay, Scott Morrison may have initiated a new way of thinking, and therefore how to plan, against predatory nations, heretofore unknown in the annals of global warfare.
It is the auk of artocracy.
Morrison this week gave a speech on national security in which he outlined the proposal of establishing a nuclear submarine port on the east coast of Australia. The three sites being looked at are Newcastle, Port Kembla and Brisbane. It would only cost $10 billion, too.
The move was “about additional national capacity, not relocating any existing or planned future capacity for Fleet Base West” (which is over in that secessionist state of Western Australia). It was necessary to combat the ripple effect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which would “inevitably stretch to the Indo-Pacific”.
Which is where the PM showed the bird. “A new auk of artocracy is instinctively aligning to challenge and reset the world order in their own image.”
Those damn auks. They may give the appearance of being simply “diving seabirds with a chunky body, short wings and legs and webbed feet”, to quote a scientific paper, but here’s the thing, they are found in northern climes.
And which countries are in northern climes? Yes, our enemies, and trading partners. To quote said paper, “Auk’s wing-propelled diving ability allows them to be efficient for capturing certain prey, depending on their particular adaptations.”
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Truly frightening. Hence Morrison’s quote. The world of the 18th century knew something was up, the great auk, sort of a mega, super refined version of the auk, was hunted into extinction by the middle of the 19th century.
A sidebar to this is the question on the lips of all political watchers: will the auk of artocracy go down in history alongside the pronouncement of George W Bush in 2002 that North Korea, Iran and Iraq were an “axis of evil”?
Bush was speaking after the September 11 attacks on the US in 2001. “States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger.”
Bush said that to ignore the axis would be catastrophic. Morrison this week said Australia hadn’t had a more perilous outlook since the Second World War. Russia and China were in cahoots to create a “transactional world, devoid of principle, accountability and transparency”.
This then is the auk of artocracy, which in its inherent nature dives (that is bombs) on prey to then reshape the environment in its own image. The art is in the auk.
Some may say I misheard Morrison. Possibly, but what if I heard the subliminal in the message? It’s an election in a few months. Everything is possible, nothing is real.
If any further evidence were needed one need look no further than Defence Minister Peter Dutton. On Sunday, Dutton told Insiders that the government would decide on which type of submarines it would acquire under the AUKUS partnership.
AUK-US.
