{"id":851091,"date":"2026-08-11T05:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851091\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T05:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:50:14","slug":"uk-count-binfaces-australian-connection-aukus-august-and-lethal-wellbeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851091\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Count Binface\u2019s Australian Connection, AUKUS August, and Lethal Wellbeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rss.com\/podcasts\/the-grumpy-strategists\/3060261\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The UK\u2019s CountBinface gets an Australian Connectio | RSS.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael calls in from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CountBinface\" rel=\"nofollow\">Count Binface\u2019s<\/a> campaign to beat Reform UK\u2019s Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election. The Grumpies ponder a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/26423603.count-binface-20-point-clacton-by-election-manifesto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Binface-type manifesto<\/a> for Australia \u2013 \u201cI will cut your taxes and raise everyone else\u2019s,\u201d along with \u201cThe hand-dryer in the gents\u2019 toilet at the Great Himalayas restaurant Southport to be moved to a more sensible position\u201d. Practical politics for real people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then Marcus unveils his path to make the AUKUS submarine program a truly national endeavour. It involves Strategic Analysis Australia being the centre of a new, mandatory, national contributions program centred on residents of the Australian Capital Territory. This leads naturally to Australia\u2019s developing contortions, somersaults &amp; rotations around the fact that US submarines stationed in Australia will be carrying nuclear weapons, in breach of Australia\u2019s commitments to a nuclear free South Pacific under the Treaty of Raratonga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The episode covers the astounding new release of Australia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defence.gov.au\/about\/strategic-planning\/2026-defence-innovation-science-technology-strategy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Defence Innovation and Science strategy<\/a> just two years on from the last one. Defence Science head Prof Tanya Monro (AC) uses this to prove that innovation requires nothing new and nothing to be achieved besides a font change and a modest cover page redesign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It ends with two philosophers: the new Chief of the Defence Force, Mark Hammond and his deputy Rob Chipman, and Grand Admiral Hammond\u2019s rousing commitment to an Australian military centred on Lethal Wellbeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK\u2019s CountBinface gets an Australian Connectio | RSS.com Michael calls in from Count Binface\u2019s campaign to beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-851091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}