Well, if China can just wait 15 years, we can send one of our #AUKUS submarines up to threaten them. That’ll see them off.

Surely AUKUS, along with everything else, is enough to send Labor into minority next time around

A total WOFTAM

#auspol #Insiders #AUKUS

Opposition to #AUKUS due to the cost is legitimate.

But getting the collywobbles because of the word, 'nuclear' is crazy.

#AUspol #military

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-18/government-defends-aukus-at-labor-conference-nuclear-submarines/102745950

Michael Pasco 😀

" "Dutton-with-hair" [Richard Marles] has been urging colleagues to back the statement [seeking formal endorsement for the #AUKUS deal from the Labor Party faithful] and prove to Australians that #Labor is the better party to manage defence.

"Sounds like political optics determining our defence policy"

#AusPol

Marcus Strom: AUKUS is a mad, bad and dangerous war policy
#auspol #AUKUS
https://johnmenadue.com/marcus-strom-aukus-is-a-mad-bad-and-dangerous-war-policy/

USA plans to set up forward military staging posts in Australia's Northern Territory will give them control over all of Australia's imports and exports.
This amounts to the Australian Government handing sovereignty to the #1 terrorist organisation in the world.
#auspol #AUKUS
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-04/us-mission-planning-centre-to-be-built-in-darwin/102683688

Why does the Australian Government fear dissent on #AUKUS and Palestine?
#auspol
https://johnmenadue.com/why-does-the-australian-government-fear-dissent/

#NewZealand Stunned the #US and Refused to Join #AUKUS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Di5GKQO2A

By the time we have these #AUKUS Submarines in 2040's most of Aus will be experiencing 50C summers, bushfires like never before and probably huge flooding and shore erosion. Extreme homelessness and poverty far increased.
China will be suffering similar climate change catastrophes.
Will we really be still chasing each other underwater around Taiwan?

I won't be here, but most of my precious family will. All governments who have the means to change these ridiculous priorities are deliberately cruel, bordering on evil.

@kentparkstreet1 It is one thing to co-operate w an ally, but totally different to let them walk in and take over control. And we know perfectly well that is what is happening.
Feel the way Albanese and Marles have handled #AUKUS is a betrayal.

The CIA coup against 'THE MOST LOYAL ALLY AUSTRALIA' is history's warning in 2020
Today, Australia is a vassal state bar none: its politics, intelligence agencies, military and much of its media are integrated into Washington's "sphere of dominance" and war plans. In Donald Trump's current provocations of China, the US bases in Australia are described as the "tip of the spear".
#auspol #AUKUS
https://johnpilger.com/articles/the-cia-coup-against-the-most-loyal-ally-is-history-s-warning-in-2020

Sattelite Pictures show the beginning of massive construction efforts on the grounds of Ream Naval Base Cambodia.

This highly likely suggests a new chinese base, to establish a chinese military presence in the Gulf of Thailand.

#china #taiwan #nato #aukus #usa #usnavy #ukraine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ream_Naval_Base

I'm thinking #Labor chose to let #AUKUS continue to fly for immediate optics, and to put a lid that steaming pile of shit to be reluctantly dealt with another day.

#AusPol

Holy Shitabrick, Batman...

#AUKUS #AusPol #RoboDebt

@kcarruthers

Former senator Rex Patrick has a rather depressing explanation ~

Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick on Twitter:

" @AlboMP could have quickly terminated Ms Campbell from her DFAT Secretary’s role in May last year using Section 59 of the Public Service Act. Now she’s in an #AUKUS advisor role only the Defence Secretary, Greg Moriarty, can remove her - after a long process

"The employment of Ms Campbell by Defence Secretary Greg Moriarty raises very serious questions as to his judgement. His decision to retain Ms Campbell on a completely unjustifiable $892,630 raises very serious questions as to propriety. "

#AusPol #RoboDebt #AUKUS

#AUKUS not properly off the ground and Australia is already taking civilian casualties caused by USA tanks on Australian soil.
#auspol https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/19/multiple-people-in-hospital-after-queensland-crash-involving-truck-carrying-us-abrams-tank

The Albanese Government’s craven desire to bolster the alliance with Washington
#auspol #AUKUS #FUKUS #USAwarmongers
https://johnmenadue.com/the-albanese-governments-craven-desire-to-bolster-the-alliance-with-washington/

This is unbelievable and certainly unjustifiable. Australia's contribution to the USA terrorist machine has been in excess of $1B per year for the past decade. And what does it buy us? War refugees, worsening #climateCrisis and bleeding public money that should have been paying for more health, housing, education and climate disaster mitigation.
Gifting these Bushmasters to USA mercenaries for their proxy war is only going to extend the destruction of Ukraine and its ability to provide grain exports for countries on the African continent, Bangladesh and China.
#USAwarmongers #AUKUS #auspol
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/12/australia-to-give-ukraine-another-30-bushmaster-military-vehicles

An Asia-Pacific NATO: fanning the flames of war
#Auspol #AUKUS #FUKUS
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/12/australia-to-give-ukraine-another-30-bushmaster-military-vehicles

@johnquiggin

It's even worse, so what was Albo thinking??

From Rex Patrick
@MrRexPatrick (birdsite)

"It’s been three days since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported [and] Kathryn Campbell has accumulated [on leave!] $7,336.68 in salary, courtesy of taxpayers.

"@AlboMP could have quickly terminated Ms Campbell from her DFAT Secretary’s role in May last year using Section 59 of the Public Service Act. Now she’s in an #AUKUS advisor role only the Defence Secretary, Greg Moriarty, can remove her - after a long process."