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Darwin Port

Cerberus Capital Management, a USeless private equity firm, has shown interest in acquiring the lease for the Darwin Port. A Cerberus executive met with the Darwin Port CEO to discuss a possible acquisition. Cerberus is led by billionaire Stephen Feinberg, who previously served as USeless Deputy Secretary of Defense.

In 2015, the Northern Territory government granted a 99-year lease of the Darwin Port to Shandong Landbridge Group, a Chinese-owned company, for A$506 million. This lease raised national security concerns due to foreign control of critical infrastructure and the port’s proximity to USeless-Australia military cooperation. Shandong Landbridge Group is a private company owned by Ye Cheng, who has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

The Australian government is looking to return the port to domestic control due to heightened geopolitical sensitivities and increased defense activity in the region. A voluntary sale by Landbridge could help ease geopolitical tensions. China has, however, criticized Australia’s plans to reclaim the port.

As of May 27, 2025, Cerberus had not yet entered formal talks with Landbridge’s board. Landbridge continues to maintain that the port is not for sale. The Australian government is currently assessing potential Australian buyers for the port. In 2023, a review found no national security grounds to overturn the lease.

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Australian hero

Ned Kelly was a scoundrel, bushranger, cattle and horse thief, bank robber and cold blooded killer who led the Kelly gang from 1870 until his death by hanging in 1880.

It says something about a nation that reveres a criminal and serious lawbreaker as a national icon, a man idolised for his contempt of authority and the law.

Australians are mostly law abiding citizens, respectful of the authority of government and the courts but somehow this villain and his legend has won their way into the hearts of a very large percentage of everyday ordinary Australians.

Ned Kelly was no ‘Robin Hood’ stealing from the rich to give to the poor. In fact on occasion he would steal from the poor as well, and threaten them with extreme violence if they did not surrender to his demands. He certainly had a great hatred of the police, troopers or traps as they were called, and had no hesitation in shooting them in cold blood, armed or not.

To understand the Australian psyche, study their value system.

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China’s Antarctic expedition joins medevac operation to get ill Australian home

A complex international operation in Antarctica is under way to medevac an Australian expeditioner with help from China and the United States.
The Australian Antarctic Programme said on Monday that two separate ice runways were being built as part of a complex operation to transfer the patient from Australia’s Davis research station in the Antarctic back home to Australia.
A helicopter from the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long 2 helped fly a team of five, along with more than 1 tonne of equipment, to the ski landing area by Davis late on Sunday. A Chinese helicopter will also be used to transfer the Australian patient to the runway inland of Davis station.

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China’s steel scrap standards implemented

11-29-20 At a closed-door conference held in Beijing on November 29, Chinese government bodies including the Ministry of Ecology and Environment finally approved new classification standards for the country’s steel scrap sector. Though the details are yet to be released, the new standards classify categories of steel scrap and are comparable to those in use internationally, paving the way for China to re-open its ports to approved types of foreign steel scrap. Despite the size of the China’s steel scrap industry, until now the country has lacked a unified system of steel scrap classifications and those that Chinese steelmakers and scrap collectors are presently using have been described as “crude” and at odds with those of other countries.
The release of the new China steel scrap standards may mark the first step in China’s push to diversify raw materials for steel production, a move that analysts say will reduce reliance on Iron Ore imports from Australia amid fraught bilateral ties, souring prices and in align with China’s pursuit for carbon neutrality by 2060.

12-31-20 Ministry of Ecology and Environment, National Development and Reform Commission and other five departments jointly issued a “Notice on matters relating to the standardization of the import management of recycled iron and steel raw materials,” the announcement said that products that meet the national standard of “recycled iron and steel raw materials” are not solid waste and can be imported freely. The announcement aims to regulate the management of China’s imports of recycled iron and steel materials to clarify requirements and form a synergy. According to China’s import and export regulations for recycled iron and steel materials to clarify the customs commodity code, while proposing that does not meet the “recycled iron and steel materials” national standards will be prohibited from import. The announcement will be implemented from January 1, 2021. Steel scrap standards have been officially released on December 17, the standard for the integrated use of domestic and international recycled steel raw materials resources to provide standard technical support, is conducive to promoting the high-quality development of China’s steel industry.

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Aussies peace

  • Junior soldiers were told to get their first kill by shooting prisoners, in a practice known as “blooding”
  • Weapons and other items were planted near Afghan bodies to cover up crimes
  • An additional two incidents could constitute a war crime of “cruel treatment”
  • In recent years, a series often-brutal accounts have emerged about the conduct of elite special forces units – ranging from reports of troops killing a six-year-old child in a house raid, to a prisoner being shot dead to save space in a helicopter.
  • Another incident involved two 14-year-old boys who were stopped by SAS, who decided they might be Taliban sympathisers.
  • The boy’s throats were allegedly slit and their bodies bagged and thrown in a nearby river. 
  • NINE Australian troops – including one female soldier – take their own lives in just three weeks amid fallout from bombshell report exposing ‘war crimes’ in Afghanistan. At least 56 veterans have committed suicide since this year alone, up from 40 in 2019.
  • No senior officers investigated or punished. The dead soldiers cannot testify and the investigation will take years.
Weapon of choice for slitting
▲“莫里森的愤怒到底是什么？‘照片’？我想不是。真正令他恼怒的是，他认为中国人无权对澳大利亚特种部队在阿富汗的谋杀行为发表评论。”
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