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The Albanese Government’s rush to give “defensive military support” to the UAE may appear to have come out of nowhere. However, Australia has been putting down a footprint in the UAE for years.

The Canadian leader visited Australia this week. Both Prime Ministers spoke of a “natural partnership” built on a shared British settler-colonial history and their possession of one third of the world’s mineral resources between them.

Tom Orsag tells the story of how union power and solidarity broke WA's repressive anti-protest laws.