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'Woefully unprepared for war': Jim Molan's final interview paints terrifying picture of Australian life as a 'tributary state to China'

In his final interview the late Senator Jim Molan gave a grim assessment of Australia’s woeful preparedness for war and issued a bleak final warning of just how the country would collapse in the likely event of a regional war.
Tyrone Clarke

February 15, 2023

The late Senator Jim Molan used his final interview before he died to urge the government and Australians to begin preparing for war as he assessed Australia as being “woefully unprepared” for a regional conflict between China and the United States.

Mr Molan died in January following a two-year battle with cancer and filmed his final interview with Peter Stefanovic for the Sky News Australia documentary Are We Ready For War? which airs on Wednesday on Foxtel at 7:30pm AEDT.

In what was his last warning, the former army major general who served in the Australian Army for 40 years said the nation's “major threat” was its complacency towards the possibility of war.

“The big threat to us is that somehow someway China will challenge us as a liberal democracy, it might be in direct conflict with us, it might be in a war with us and our great and powerful friend the Americans with us as collateral damage to that particular war,” Mr Molan said.

“And because the Americans are out of the region we become fundamentally a tributary state to China and we lose our liberal democratic nature. That’s what we’ve got to defend.

“We are woefully unprepared for a regional war in relation to the resilience of our nation.”

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This Sky News Australia special investigation into China’s growing threat of war against Taiwan reveals how it could spark a global conflict between the United States and China – leaving Australia caught in the crossfire.

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In his final interview before passing away, the late Senator Jim Molan gave a crucial warning for the government and Australians to begin preparing for war, fearing the nation could be caught in the crossfire of a battle between China and the United States.