On the eve of the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill insurrection, President Joe Biden has made a swingeing attack on his putative Republican opponent in this year’s election, former President Donald Trump. Speaking in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Biden told his audience: “Democracy is on the ballot.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has released a joint statement with 11 other nations condemning Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. Australia has joined with Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom to describe the attacks on commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea as “illegal, unacceptable, and profoundly destabilising”.