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Why Did Australia Refuse to Send a Single Ship to the Red Sea?

President Joe Biden’s surrogates asked for just one ship—not an unprecedented request. Why did we refuse?
Why Did Australia Refuse to Send a Single Ship to the Red Sea?
A Yemeni coastguard member loyal to the internationally-recognised government rides in a patrol boat in the Red Sea off of the government-held town of Mokha in the western Taiz province, close to the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait, on Dec. 12, 2023. Khaled Ziad/AFP via Getty Images
Graham Young
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News the U.S. Navy killed 10 Houthi pirates in the Bab el-Mandeb underlines the embarrassment in the Albanese Labor government only sending 11 military personnel rather than the requested warship to assist the American operation in the area.
Graham Young
Graham Young
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Graham Young is the executive director of the Australian Institute for Progress. He is the editor and founder of OnlineOpinion.com.au and has conducted qualitative polling on Australian politics since 2001. Mr. Young has contributed to The Australian newspaper, The Australian Financial Review, and is a regular on ABC Radio Brisbane.
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