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Sky News AU
a day ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘More yet to be done': Iranian nuclear program only delayed
Strategic Analysis Australia Director Peter Jennings says Operation Midnight Hammer has 'very significantly' delayed Iran's nuclear program. 'It's pretty conclusive on that evidence that the facility has been destroyed,' Mr Jennings told Sky News host Steve Price. 'There's more yet to be done, but that has very significantly put the Iranian nuclear program back.'
Sky News AU
a day ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Albanese slated to be ‘worst national security PM in history' of Australia
Strategic Analysis Australia Director Peter Jennings says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is shaping up to be the 'worst national security Prime Minister in the history of the country'. 'I don't think he [Anthony Albanese] understands … he should see that the Americans are very deliberately lining us up to, I think, make it clear that they're extremely unimpressed with our low level of defence spending,' Mr Jennings told Sky News host Steve Price. 'The Prime Minister just doesn't seem to care about that, and I think he's shaping to probably be the worst national security Prime Minister in the history of the country.'
NZ Herald
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
Bach Musica NZ captivates with Mozart and Bach at Auckland Town Hall
From the start, Rita Paczian and her musicians relished the simmering syncopations and pungent suspensions of its first movement, with bass lines graduating from urgent murmurings to a mighty roar. Shapely woodwind and forceful brass joined in with a confident stylishness that would serve the music well, right through to Mozart's ebullient finale. Soloist Madeleine Xiao introduced herself with cool precision, offering no hint of fiery passagework to come, especially in the cadenzas penned by Beethoven. If the second Romanza movement might have had its opening theme a little more tonally caressed, her impassioned virtuosity when major shifted to minor took the breath away. Madeleine Xiao introduced herself with cool precision. Photo / Peter Jennings Xiao's encore, Liszt's transcription of Schumann's song Widmung (Dedication) released glowing, soulful melodies from within torrents of incendiary bravura. Significantly, this was dedicated, we were told, to Katherine Austin, one of our most treasured pianists, now battling ill health. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was famously mocked by his own father, the great Johann Sebastian, for writing music that was Prussian blue and hence susceptible to fading. After the interval, the dazzling opening chorus of his Magnificat put a lie to that cruel paternal dismissal. Further rousing choruses afforded Paczian's choir the opportunity to sing with molto gusto; in effective contrast with the nuanced phrases of the work's Et misericordia. The four young soloists almost stole the show on Sunday night, effortlessly searching out the musical truth of Bach's sometimes awkward vocal writing. Tenor Taliai Fifita was impressively agile in the florid demands of his Quia fecit. Photo / Peter Jennings Elizabeth Mandeno's Quia respexit enthralled with the soprano's unruffled clarity and admirable projection. Edward Laurenson took up the challenge of his Fecit potentiam with an infectious bravado, navigating through an eccentric accompaniment to enjoy every flourish, leaping octaves as if they were adjacent notes. Sweet-toned tenor Taliai Fifita was impressively agile in the florid demands of his Quia fecit, as well as in his mellifluous duetting with mezzo Katie Trigg, whose lustrous voice was a source of unqualified joy whenever it rose from the texture.
Sky News AU
5 days ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Iran ‘rapidly losing' ability to fire missiles into Israel
Strategic Analysis Australia Director Peter Jennings says the Iranian regime is 'rapidly losing' its ability to launch missiles against Israel. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is urging the Chinese Communist Party to discourage Iran from blocking the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping lane that is vital to the global economy. 'The key question is, what connections does it have with its network of proxy groups?' Mr Jennings told Sky News host Chris Kenny. 'It's just not clear to me at this stage how much command-and-control capacity the regime has got left because Israel did such an effective job of destroying that in the first 10 days of the campaign.'
Sky News AU
18-06-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘So deeply entwined': Iran unlikely to abandon nuclear ambitions
Strategic Analysis Australia Director Peter Jennings examines the future of the Iranian regime. 'There are really two things which I think the regime has to give up completely if it can be allowed to survive at all,' Mr Jennings told Sky News host Chris Kenny. 'That is, firstly, nuclear weapons … and secondly, they've got to break all ties with terrorist organisations. 'These things are so deeply entwined into the DNA of the regime in Iran, I can't see how they could give those things up.'
