The latest Essential poll suggests the elite security consensus is not reflective of the prevailing national mood
Recently my stream’s algorithm served me up Pine Gap, a gripping if sometimes slow-moving geopolitical drama that I managed to miss when it first aired on Aunty in 2018.
Viewed just half a decade after it was made, the series seems like a quaint artefact from a quieter time, before the Covid outbreak, trade sanctions, Pacific incursions and bullhorn diplomacy deeply soured Australia-Chinese relations.
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