#aukus — Public Fediverse posts
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Social Spending, Not War Spending – Protest outside ALP National Conference
11am - 1pm Sat 25 July
Adelaide Convention CentreJoin us outside the ALP National Conference 2026 to demand that governments invest in people and communities, not militarisation, weapons and war.
#Adelaide #AUKUS #ALP #Labor #housing #healthcare #education #poverty #costoflivingcrisis #treaty #firstnations #ndis #ndiscuts #refugees #ClimateAction #southaustralia #unions #CFMEU #protest
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Social Spending, Not War Spending – Protest outside ALP National Conference
11am - 1pm Sat 25 July
Adelaide Convention CentreJoin us outside the ALP National Conference 2026 to demand that governments invest in people and communities, not militarisation, weapons and war.
#Adelaide #AUKUS #ALP #Labor #housing #healthcare #education #poverty #costoflivingcrisis #treaty #firstnations #ndis #ndiscuts #refugees #ClimateAction #southaustralia #unions #CFMEU #protest
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Social Spending, Not War Spending – Protest outside ALP National Conference
11am - 1pm Sat 25 July
Adelaide Convention CentreJoin us outside the ALP National Conference 2026 to demand that governments invest in people and communities, not militarisation, weapons and war.
#Adelaide #AUKUS #ALP #Labor #housing #healthcare #education #poverty #costoflivingcrisis #treaty #firstnations #ndis #ndiscuts #refugees #ClimateAction #southaustralia #unions #CFMEU #protest
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Social Spending, Not War Spending – Protest outside ALP National Conference
11am - 1pm Sat 25 July
Adelaide Convention CentreJoin us outside the ALP National Conference 2026 to demand that governments invest in people and communities, not militarisation, weapons and war.
#Adelaide #AUKUS #ALP #Labor #housing #healthcare #education #poverty #costoflivingcrisis #treaty #firstnations #ndis #ndiscuts #refugees #ClimateAction #southaustralia #unions #CFMEU #protest
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Social Spending, Not War Spending – Protest outside ALP National Conference
11am - 1pm Sat 25 July
Adelaide Convention CentreJoin us outside the ALP National Conference 2026 to demand that governments invest in people and communities, not militarisation, weapons and war.
#Adelaide #AUKUS #ALP #Labor #housing #healthcare #education #poverty #costoflivingcrisis #treaty #firstnations #ndis #ndiscuts #refugees #ClimateAction #southaustralia #unions #CFMEU #protest
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Canossa on the South Lawn
In 1077 a king knelt three days in the snow at Canossa, and it worked. Nine and a half centuries on, the pope-king turns eighty behind a cage on the South Lawn while the pretenders queue: a trillionaire, a Crown Prince, and a deputy sheriff paying by direct debit. Urban Wronski on the new Investiture Controversy.https://urbanwronski.com/2026/06/12/canossa-on-the-south-lawn/
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If I haven’t made it plain before, I have certainly left enough clues in the past as to what ought to be discussed about #AUKUS and what ought best be left for those with the appropriate expertise to deliberate and inform.
Clearly, the main public gripe about #ScottyFromMarketing ‘s big dirty deal concerns costs. Any discussion of our reliance on the #US #Alliance (a secondary gripe) needs not be conducted solely from the AUKUS perspective because it is not the wherewithal of that alliance.
But to be more specific, AUKUS must be evaluated from the perspective of stated core requirements addressing the latest Strategic Review and the military tasks/missions which fall out of it.
If the public needs/wishes to debate our defence spending and access to classified documents on the matter is not possible, it must fall back to critique the strategic review itself, the steering document for every Defence acquisition. Everything about defence emanates from that document.
Ergo, IMO, the current community enquiry is wasting its time if it reviews anything else but the source of all defence requirements as it lacks expertise (and time) to deal with the work that eventually lead to submarine warfare scenarios and the evalluation of platform Vs requirements before any discussion can focus on the AUKUS deal. Focusing on AUKUS is like talking about the water coming out of the tap as the source of all its contaminents.
And this is why, having tuned to the enquiry just now, I quickly stopped watching it. What is it really trying to achieve? I found it a useless waste of time…and a political stunt at best. It will not inform the public. It will sow confusion as petty interests are platformed. It will generalise a mountain of processes and deduce nothing useful from it. It will further divide public opinion on AUKUS, claim success on the back of emotive reactions to biased platforming and stoke further clueless Column inches.
I sincerely hope that I am wrong about this, truly, I am. But the odds are stacked up against it.
Think about it… #Marles is fully briefed on AUKUS, but what we publically hear from the Minister is spin, platitudes, obfuscation and misdirection when he tells us anything about the SSN deal. He is not a complete idiot. He does this for a reason. Ask yourself then, what is the reason(s) which compel a sitting Minister to gamble his political career on remaing tight lipped about that particular defence acquisition?
#AusPol #AUKUS #SSN #PublicInquiry #Defence #StrategicReview #USAlliance #DefenceProcurement #UK #US #ProjectRequirements #DefenceTenders #PublicOpinion
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If I haven’t made it plain before, I have certainly left enough clues in the past as to what ought to be discussed about #AUKUS and what ought best be left for those with the appropriate expertise to deliberate and inform.
Clearly, the main public gripe about #ScottyFromMarketing ‘s big dirty deal concerns costs. Any discussion of our reliance on the #US #Alliance (a secondary gripe) needs not be conducted solely from the AUKUS perspective because it is not the wherewithal of that alliance.
But to be more specific, AUKUS must be evaluated from the perspective of stated core requirements addressing the latest Strategic Review and the military tasks/missions which fall out of it.
If the public needs/wishes to debate our defence spending and access to classified documents on the matter is not possible, it must fall back to critique the strategic review itself, the steering document for every Defence acquisition. Everything about defence emanates from that document.
Ergo, IMO, the current community enquiry is wasting its time if it reviews anything else but the source of all defence requirements as it lacks expertise (and time) to deal with the work that eventually lead to submarine warfare scenarios and the evalluation of platform Vs requirements before any discussion can focus on the AUKUS deal. Focusing on AUKUS is like talking about the water coming out of the tap as the source of all its contaminents.
And this is why, having tuned to the enquiry just now, I quickly stopped watching it. What is it really trying to achieve? I found it a useless waste of time…and a political stunt at best. It will not inform the public. It will sow confusion as petty interests are platformed. It will generalise a mountain of processes and deduce nothing useful from it. It will further divide public opinion on AUKUS, claim success on the back of emotive reactions to biased platforming and stoke further clueless Column inches.
I sincerely hope that I am wrong about this, truly, I am. But the odds are stacked up against it.
Think about it… #Marles is fully briefed on AUKUS, but what we publically hear from the Minister is spin, platitudes, obfuscation and misdirection when he tells us anything about the SSN deal. He is not a complete idiot. He does this for a reason. Ask yourself then, what is the reason(s) which compel a sitting Minister to gamble his political career on remaing tight lipped about that particular defence acquisition?
#AusPol #AUKUS #SSN #PublicInquiry #Defence #StrategicReview #USAlliance #DefenceProcurement #UK #US #ProjectRequirements #DefenceTenders #PublicOpinion
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If I haven’t made it plain before, I have certainly left enough clues in the past as to what ought to be discussed about #AUKUS and what ought best be left for those with the appropriate expertise to deliberate and inform.
Clearly, the main public gripe about #ScottyFromMarketing ‘s big dirty deal concerns costs. Any discussion of our reliance on the #US #Alliance (a secondary gripe) needs not be conducted solely from the AUKUS perspective because it is not the wherewithal of that alliance.
But to be more specific, AUKUS must be evaluated from the perspective of stated core requirements addressing the latest Strategic Review and the military tasks/missions which fall out of it.
If the public needs/wishes to debate our defence spending and access to classified documents on the matter is not possible, it must fall back to critique the strategic review itself, the steering document for every Defence acquisition. Everything about defence emanates from that document.
Ergo, IMO, the current community enquiry is wasting its time if it reviews anything else but the source of all defence requirements as it lacks expertise (and time) to deal with the work that eventually lead to submarine warfare scenarios and the evalluation of platform Vs requirements before any discussion can focus on the AUKUS deal. Focusing on AUKUS is like talking about the water coming out of the tap as the source of all its contaminents.
And this is why, having tuned to the enquiry just now, I quickly stopped watching it. What is it really trying to achieve? I found it a useless waste of time…and a political stunt at best. It will not inform the public. It will sow confusion as petty interests are platformed. It will generalise a mountain of processes and deduce nothing useful from it. It will further divide public opinion on AUKUS, claim success on the back of emotive reactions to biased platforming and stoke further clueless Column inches.
I sincerely hope that I am wrong about this, truly, I am. But the odds are stacked up against it.
Think about it… #Marles is fully briefed on AUKUS, but what we publically hear from the Minister is spin, platitudes, obfuscation and misdirection when he tells us anything about the SSN deal. He is not a complete idiot. He does this for a reason. Ask yourself then, what is the reason(s) which compel a sitting Minister to gamble his political career on remaing tight lipped about that particular defence acquisition?
#AusPol #AUKUS #SSN #PublicInquiry #Defence #StrategicReview #USAlliance #DefenceProcurement #UK #US #ProjectRequirements #DefenceTenders #PublicOpinion
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If I haven’t made it plain before, I have certainly left enough clues in the past as to what ought to be discussed about #AUKUS and what ought best be left for those with the appropriate expertise to deliberate and inform.
Clearly, the main public gripe about #ScottyFromMarketing ‘s big dirty deal concerns costs. Any discussion of our reliance on the #US #Alliance (a secondary gripe) needs not be conducted solely from the AUKUS perspective because it is not the wherewithal of that alliance.
But to be more specific, AUKUS must be evaluated from the perspective of stated core requirements addressing the latest Strategic Review and the military tasks/missions which fall out of it.
If the public needs/wishes to debate our defence spending and access to classified documents on the matter is not possible, it must fall back to critique the strategic review itself, the steering document for every Defence acquisition. Everything about defence emanates from that document.
Ergo, IMO, the current community enquiry is wasting its time if it reviews anything else but the source of all defence requirements as it lacks expertise (and time) to deal with the work that eventually lead to submarine warfare scenarios and the evalluation of platform Vs requirements before any discussion can focus on the AUKUS deal. Focusing on AUKUS is like talking about the water coming out of the tap as the source of all its contaminents.
And this is why, having tuned to the enquiry just now, I quickly stopped watching it. What is it really trying to achieve? I found it a useless waste of time…and a political stunt at best. It will not inform the public. It will sow confusion as petty interests are platformed. It will generalise a mountain of processes and deduce nothing useful from it. It will further divide public opinion on AUKUS, claim success on the back of emotive reactions to biased platforming and stoke further clueless Column inches.
I sincerely hope that I am wrong about this, truly, I am. But the odds are stacked up against it.
Think about it… #Marles is fully briefed on AUKUS, but what we publically hear from the Minister is spin, platitudes, obfuscation and misdirection when he tells us anything about the SSN deal. He is not a complete idiot. He does this for a reason. Ask yourself then, what is the reason(s) which compel a sitting Minister to gamble his political career on remaing tight lipped about that particular defence acquisition?
#AusPol #AUKUS #SSN #PublicInquiry #Defence #StrategicReview #USAlliance #DefenceProcurement #UK #US #ProjectRequirements #DefenceTenders #PublicOpinion
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If I haven’t made it plain before, I have certainly left enough clues in the past as to what ought to be discussed about #AUKUS and what ought best be left for those with the appropriate expertise to deliberate and inform.
Clearly, the main public gripe about #ScottyFromMarketing ‘s big dirty deal concerns costs. Any discussion of our reliance on the #US #Alliance (a secondary gripe) needs not be conducted solely from the AUKUS perspective because it is not the wherewithal of that alliance.
But to be more specific, AUKUS must be evaluated from the perspective of stated core requirements addressing the latest Strategic Review and the military tasks/missions which fall out of it.
If the public needs/wishes to debate our defence spending and access to classified documents on the matter is not possible, it must fall back to critique the strategic review itself, the steering document for every Defence acquisition. Everything about defence emanates from that document.
Ergo, IMO, the current community enquiry is wasting its time if it reviews anything else but the source of all defence requirements as it lacks expertise (and time) to deal with the work that eventually lead to submarine warfare scenarios and the evalluation of platform Vs requirements before any discussion can focus on the AUKUS deal. Focusing on AUKUS is like talking about the water coming out of the tap as the source of all its contaminents.
And this is why, having tuned to the enquiry just now, I quickly stopped watching it. What is it really trying to achieve? I found it a useless waste of time…and a political stunt at best. It will not inform the public. It will sow confusion as petty interests are platformed. It will generalise a mountain of processes and deduce nothing useful from it. It will further divide public opinion on AUKUS, claim success on the back of emotive reactions to biased platforming and stoke further clueless Column inches.
I sincerely hope that I am wrong about this, truly, I am. But the odds are stacked up against it.
Think about it… #Marles is fully briefed on AUKUS, but what we publically hear from the Minister is spin, platitudes, obfuscation and misdirection when he tells us anything about the SSN deal. He is not a complete idiot. He does this for a reason. Ask yourself then, what is the reason(s) which compel a sitting Minister to gamble his political career on remaing tight lipped about that particular defence acquisition?
#AusPol #AUKUS #SSN #PublicInquiry #Defence #StrategicReview #USAlliance #DefenceProcurement #UK #US #ProjectRequirements #DefenceTenders #PublicOpinion
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I cannot help but sigh deeply whenever politicians get involved in strategic military discussions. This is in no way to disparage, in this case, Senator #Shoebridge as he rightly points out that a handful of submarines will not guarantee open sea lanes to Australia in the event of war. For what it’s worth, Sen Shoebridge is only targeting the Govt’s goto spiel about #AUKUS, that is a simple message which the public can understand and focus on.
While the govt messaging about protecting sealanes being the reason for SSN acquisition is not entirely wrong, it is not entirely correct either. Submarines platforms are primarily intelligence, insertion, and deterence platforms, #Stealth is something SSN currently have in spades. Their stealth characteristics make these SNNs a force projection multiplier in any theater of sea warfare and likely to make an aggressor think twice before they commit to offensive actions. This comment is not a defence of #AUKUS since that is simply a defence acquisition project. But it is in defence of the need for undersea platforms that are stealthy, highly survivable, can transport personel, equipment and stores, carry offensive and defensive elements and traverse transoceanic distances at speed without refueling. Those needs are dictated to the ADF by the govt of the day in terms of assigned strategic missions and outcomes. In short, our ADF (men adn women pledging their lives to defend us all) deserves the very best materiel and platforms we can provide in order to carry out those missions and responsibilites entrusted to our them.
Everything else is plainly just politics, played by, I dare say, less than genuine and knowledgeable individuals.
#AusPol #ADF #Submarines #SSN #AUKUS #NuclearSubmarines #DefenceProcurement #Acquisition #VirginiaBoats #USN #NavalShipyards #DefenceBudget #RichardMarlesMP #Greens #Labor #BiPartisanShip #DoD #RAN
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I cannot help but sigh deeply whenever politicians get involved in strategic military discussions. This is in no way to disparage, in this case, Senator #Shoebridge as he rightly points out that a handful of submarines will not guarantee open sea lanes to Australia in the event of war. For what it’s worth, Sen Shoebridge is only targeting the Govt’s goto spiel about #AUKUS, that is a simple message which the public can understand and focus on.
While the govt messaging about protecting sealanes being the reason for SSN acquisition is not entirely wrong, it is not entirely correct either. Submarines platforms are primarily intelligence, insertion, and deterence platforms, #Stealth is something SSN currently have in spades. Their stealth characteristics make these SNNs a force projection multiplier in any theater of sea warfare and likely to make an aggressor think twice before they commit to offensive actions. This comment is not a defence of #AUKUS since that is simply a defence acquisition project. But it is in defence of the need for undersea platforms that are stealthy, highly survivable, can transport personel, equipment and stores, carry offensive and defensive elements and traverse transoceanic distances at speed without refueling. Those needs are dictated to the ADF by the govt of the day in terms of assigned strategic missions and outcomes. In short, our ADF (men adn women pledging their lives to defend us all) deserves the very best materiel and platforms we can provide in order to carry out those missions and responsibilites entrusted to our them.
Everything else is plainly just politics, played by, I dare say, less than genuine and knowledgeable individuals.
#AusPol #ADF #Submarines #SSN #AUKUS #NuclearSubmarines #DefenceProcurement #Acquisition #VirginiaBoats #USN #NavalShipyards #DefenceBudget #RichardMarlesMP #Greens #Labor #BiPartisanShip #DoD #RAN
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I cannot help but sigh deeply whenever politicians get involved in strategic military discussions. This is in no way to disparage, in this case, Senator #Shoebridge as he rightly points out that a handful of submarines will not guarantee open sea lanes to Australia in the event of war. For what it’s worth, Sen Shoebridge is only targeting the Govt’s goto spiel about #AUKUS, that is a simple message which the public can understand and focus on.
While the govt messaging about protecting sealanes being the reason for SSN acquisition is not entirely wrong, it is not entirely correct either. Submarines platforms are primarily intelligence, insertion, and deterence platforms, #Stealth is something SSN currently have in spades. Their stealth characteristics make these SNNs a force projection multiplier in any theater of sea warfare and likely to make an aggressor think twice before they commit to offensive actions. This comment is not a defence of #AUKUS since that is simply a defence acquisition project. But it is in defence of the need for undersea platforms that are stealthy, highly survivable, can transport personel, equipment and stores, carry offensive and defensive elements and traverse transoceanic distances at speed without refueling. Those needs are dictated to the ADF by the govt of the day in terms of assigned strategic missions and outcomes. In short, our ADF (men adn women pledging their lives to defend us all) deserves the very best materiel and platforms we can provide in order to carry out those missions and responsibilites entrusted to our them.
Everything else is plainly just politics, played by, I dare say, less than genuine and knowledgeable individuals.
#AusPol #ADF #Submarines #SSN #AUKUS #NuclearSubmarines #DefenceProcurement #Acquisition #VirginiaBoats #USN #NavalShipyards #DefenceBudget #RichardMarlesMP #Greens #Labor #BiPartisanShip #DoD #RAN
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I cannot help but sigh deeply whenever politicians get involved in strategic military discussions. This is in no way to disparage, in this case, Senator #Shoebridge as he rightly points out that a handful of submarines will not guarantee open sea lanes to Australia in the event of war. For what it’s worth, Sen Shoebridge is only targeting the Govt’s goto spiel about #AUKUS, that is a simple message which the public can understand and focus on.
While the govt messaging about protecting sealanes being the reason for SSN acquisition is not entirely wrong, it is not entirely correct either. Submarines platforms are primarily intelligence, insertion, and deterence platforms, #Stealth is something SSN currently have in spades. Their stealth characteristics make these SNNs a force projection multiplier in any theater of sea warfare and likely to make an aggressor think twice before they commit to offensive actions. This comment is not a defence of #AUKUS since that is simply a defence acquisition project. But it is in defence of the need for undersea platforms that are stealthy, highly survivable, can transport personel, equipment and stores, carry offensive and defensive elements and traverse transoceanic distances at speed without refueling. Those needs are dictated to the ADF by the govt of the day in terms of assigned strategic missions and outcomes. In short, our ADF (men adn women pledging their lives to defend us all) deserves the very best materiel and platforms we can provide in order to carry out those missions and responsibilites entrusted to our them.
Everything else is plainly just politics, played by, I dare say, less than genuine and knowledgeable individuals.
#AusPol #ADF #Submarines #SSN #AUKUS #NuclearSubmarines #DefenceProcurement #Acquisition #VirginiaBoats #USN #NavalShipyards #DefenceBudget #RichardMarlesMP #Greens #Labor #BiPartisanShip #DoD #RAN
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I cannot help but sigh deeply whenever politicians get involved in strategic military discussions. This is in no way to disparage, in this case, Senator #Shoebridge as he rightly points out that a handful of submarines will not guarantee open sea lanes to Australia in the event of war. For what it’s worth, Sen Shoebridge is only targeting the Govt’s goto spiel about #AUKUS, that is a simple message which the public can understand and focus on.
While the govt messaging about protecting sealanes being the reason for SSN acquisition is not entirely wrong, it is not entirely correct either. Submarines platforms are primarily intelligence, insertion, and deterence platforms, #Stealth is something SSN currently have in spades. Their stealth characteristics make these SNNs a force projection multiplier in any theater of sea warfare and likely to make an aggressor think twice before they commit to offensive actions. This comment is not a defence of #AUKUS since that is simply a defence acquisition project. But it is in defence of the need for undersea platforms that are stealthy, highly survivable, can transport personel, equipment and stores, carry offensive and defensive elements and traverse transoceanic distances at speed without refueling. Those needs are dictated to the ADF by the govt of the day in terms of assigned strategic missions and outcomes. In short, our ADF (men adn women pledging their lives to defend us all) deserves the very best materiel and platforms we can provide in order to carry out those missions and responsibilites entrusted to our them.
Everything else is plainly just politics, played by, I dare say, less than genuine and knowledgeable individuals.
#AusPol #ADF #Submarines #SSN #AUKUS #NuclearSubmarines #DefenceProcurement #Acquisition #VirginiaBoats #USN #NavalShipyards #DefenceBudget #RichardMarlesMP #Greens #Labor #BiPartisanShip #DoD #RAN
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CW “cannot be unseen”
Straya scams, schemes seen 2026
AUKUS - public Inquiry
https://aukuspublicinquiry.netlify.app/#news(Note: $369B for SSN Aukus subs for the 2040's … US changed “dud-deal” to sell second hand subs with a shorter life span requiring the storage of high level nuclear waste from the reactors on board to be stored on Australian territory.)
#Ai #Aukus #Billionaires #Capitalism #dataCenter #oligarchy #plutocrats #RichPeoplesYachtMoney
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CW “cannot be unseen”
Straya scams, schemes seen 2026
AUKUS - public Inquiry
https://aukuspublicinquiry.netlify.app/#news(Note: $369B for SSN Aukus subs for the 2040's … US changed “dud-deal” to sell second hand subs with a shorter life span requiring the storage of high level nuclear waste from the reactors on board to be stored on Australian territory.)
#Ai #Aukus #Billionaires #Capitalism #dataCenter #oligarchy #plutocrats #RichPeoplesYachtMoney
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And, if the #AUKUS tier one debacle ins’t muddy enough for us lay people and tax payers, here is yet more #Double-talk from our #Secretive #DefenceProcurement, #Minister and #LaborMP.
Make of it what you will, but I’ll venture to say that we will not know the truth of it all until sometime hence when an #AmyRemeikis of the future writes a revelatory book about those #RustBuckets #HandMeDowns #SSN boats we are now likely to get from the USN.
Nothing stinks like #ScottyFromMarketing smell… now where did I store that gas mask I used during the #Moretorium protests?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-02/ed-husic-calls-for-aukus-deal-rethink-submarines/106750234
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And, if the #AUKUS tier one debacle ins’t muddy enough for us lay people and tax payers, here is yet more #Double-talk from our #Secretive #DefenceProcurement, #Minister and #LaborMP.
Make of it what you will, but I’ll venture to say that we will not know the truth of it all until sometime hence when an #AmyRemeikis of the future writes a revelatory book about those #RustBuckets #HandMeDowns #SSN boats we are now likely to get from the USN.
Nothing stinks like #ScottyFromMarketing smell… now where did I store that gas mask I used during the #Moretorium protests?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-02/ed-husic-calls-for-aukus-deal-rethink-submarines/106750234
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And, if the #AUKUS tier one debacle ins’t muddy enough for us lay people and tax payers, here is yet more #Double-talk from our #Secretive #DefenceProcurement, #Minister and #LaborMP.
Make of it what you will, but I’ll venture to say that we will not know the truth of it all until sometime hence when an #AmyRemeikis of the future writes a revelatory book about those #RustBuckets #HandMeDowns #SSN boats we are now likely to get from the USN.
Nothing stinks like #ScottyFromMarketing smell… now where did I store that gas mask I used during the #Moretorium protests?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-02/ed-husic-calls-for-aukus-deal-rethink-submarines/106750234
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And, if the #AUKUS tier one debacle ins’t muddy enough for us lay people and tax payers, here is yet more #Double-talk from our #Secretive #DefenceProcurement, #Minister and #LaborMP.
Make of it what you will, but I’ll venture to say that we will not know the truth of it all until sometime hence when an #AmyRemeikis of the future writes a revelatory book about those #RustBuckets #HandMeDowns #SSN boats we are now likely to get from the USN.
Nothing stinks like #ScottyFromMarketing smell… now where did I store that gas mask I used during the #Moretorium protests?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-02/ed-husic-calls-for-aukus-deal-rethink-submarines/106750234
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And, if the #AUKUS tier one debacle ins’t muddy enough for us lay people and tax payers, here is yet more #Double-talk from our #Secretive #DefenceProcurement, #Minister and #LaborMP.
Make of it what you will, but I’ll venture to say that we will not know the truth of it all until sometime hence when an #AmyRemeikis of the future writes a revelatory book about those #RustBuckets #HandMeDowns #SSN boats we are now likely to get from the USN.
Nothing stinks like #ScottyFromMarketing smell… now where did I store that gas mask I used during the #Moretorium protests?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-02/ed-husic-calls-for-aukus-deal-rethink-submarines/106750234
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@John
He is correct though, and wrong at the same time. The original ‘deal’ (as revealed to the public) was to receive one second hand SSN first because of a need to fill a RAN gap between the Collins retirements and commissioning the first new Virginia SSN (due to US shipbuilding capacity constraints and USN priorities). He is wrong to imply that more than one second-hand boat was ever optimistically envisaged at the time according to publicly available information. There is of course the possibility that Defence always knew how impossible it would be to get newly built US SSNs and #AUKUS #PlanB was to get second-hand boats if new ones could not be had (New boats to USN would release old SSNs for sale - despite calls by Congress to keep them to fill US vs China SSN balanced). Who the fuck really knows what was/is really going down between an over secretive Department of Defence and a #ChristoFascist US DoD.That’s my plebeian take on the matter.
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Defence Minister says Australia could still buy five US submarines under AUKUS
Defence Minister Richard Marles says the United States is still open to providing Australia with up to five…
#Australia #AU #aukus #Austrlia #collinsclass #nuclear-poweredsubmarines #RichardMarles #Shangri-LaDialogue #SSN-AUKUS #Virginiaclass
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$11 Billion Allocated to Extend Aging Collins-Class Fleet Amid Capability Gaps
Australia is spending $11 billion to keep six old Collins-class submarines active until the late 2040s. Learn how this affects the Navy's defense power.
#australiannavy, #collinsclass, #defencefunding, #maritime, #aukus
https://newsletter.tf/australia-11-billion-collins-class-submarine-plan/
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The Australian government is spending $11 billion to fix old submarines. This is a big change from the original plan to replace them sooner.
#australiannavy, #collinsclass, #defencefunding, #maritime, #aukus
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A Japanese option for managing risk in the AUKUS optimal pathway
Even if the political will existed, the time, resources and effort required for the full evaluation,…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #asia #aukus #australia #China #Collinsclass #europe #JapanMaritimeSelfDefenceForce #Japanese #Japanesenews #news #northamerica #Oceania #RoyalAustralianNavy #SSNAUKUS #UnitedKingdom #unitedstates #Virginiaclass
https://www.alojapan.com/1483430/a-japanese-option-for-managing-risk-in-the-aukus-optimal-pathway/ -
A Japanese option for managing risk in the AUKUS optimal pathway
Even if the political will existed, the time, resources and effort required for the full evaluation,…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #asia #aukus #australia #China #Collinsclass #europe #JapanMaritimeSelfDefenceForce #Japanese #Japanesenews #news #northamerica #Oceania #RoyalAustralianNavy #SSNAUKUS #UnitedKingdom #unitedstates #Virginiaclass
https://www.alojapan.com/1483430/a-japanese-option-for-managing-risk-in-the-aukus-optimal-pathway/ -
https://www.alojapan.com/1483430/a-japanese-option-for-managing-risk-in-the-aukus-optimal-pathway/ A Japanese option for managing risk in the AUKUS optimal pathway #asia #aukus #australia #China #CollinsClass #europe #Japan #JapanMaritimeSelfDefenceForce #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news #NorthAmerica #Oceania #RoyalAustralianNavy #SSNAUKUS #UnitedKingdom #UnitedStates #VirginiaClass Even if the political will existed, the time, resources and effort required for the full evaluation, competition and acquisition process of a new class
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https://www.alojapan.com/1483430/a-japanese-option-for-managing-risk-in-the-aukus-optimal-pathway/ A Japanese option for managing risk in the AUKUS optimal pathway #asia #aukus #australia #China #CollinsClass #europe #Japan #JapanMaritimeSelfDefenceForce #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news #NorthAmerica #Oceania #RoyalAustralianNavy #SSNAUKUS #UnitedKingdom #UnitedStates #VirginiaClass Even if the political will existed, the time, resources and effort required for the full evaluation, competition and acquisition process of a new class
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#RexPatrick seems to be the only one asking the right questions, persistently. Australian #Reporters and #Journalists would do well to learn from him.
“Of course, there is a small possibility that we are wrong and there is no estimate. Maybe the Minister has told the ASA he won’t ask for one and they shouldn’t generate one.” (Rex Patrick)
Read more
https://michaelwest.com.au/where-are-the-aukus-nuclear-waste-costings-let-alone-the-dump-sites/#AUKUS #AusPol #DefenceProcurement #ASA
In the past, I’ve had some exposure to big Defence projects and I am reminded that no project is too big to fail and the reality that all projects also have a ‘political life’ use-by-date to take into account.
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#RexPatrick seems to be the only one asking the right questions, persistently. Australian #Reporters and #Journalists would do well to learn from him.
“Of course, there is a small possibility that we are wrong and there is no estimate. Maybe the Minister has told the ASA he won’t ask for one and they shouldn’t generate one.” (Rex Patrick)
Read more
https://michaelwest.com.au/where-are-the-aukus-nuclear-waste-costings-let-alone-the-dump-sites/#AUKUS #AusPol #DefenceProcurement #ASA
In the past, I’ve had some exposure to big Defence projects and I am reminded that no project is too big to fail and the reality that all projects also have a ‘political life’ use-by-date to take into account.
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#RexPatrick seems to be the only one asking the right questions, persistently. Australian #Reporters and #Journalists would do well to learn from him.
“Of course, there is a small possibility that we are wrong and there is no estimate. Maybe the Minister has told the ASA he won’t ask for one and they shouldn’t generate one.” (Rex Patrick)
Read more
https://michaelwest.com.au/where-are-the-aukus-nuclear-waste-costings-let-alone-the-dump-sites/#AUKUS #AusPol #DefenceProcurement #ASA
In the past, I’ve had some exposure to big Defence projects and I am reminded that no project is too big to fail and the reality that all projects also have a ‘political life’ use-by-date to take into account.
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#RexPatrick seems to be the only one asking the right questions, persistently. Australian #Reporters and #Journalists would do well to learn from him.
“Of course, there is a small possibility that we are wrong and there is no estimate. Maybe the Minister has told the ASA he won’t ask for one and they shouldn’t generate one.” (Rex Patrick)
Read more
https://michaelwest.com.au/where-are-the-aukus-nuclear-waste-costings-let-alone-the-dump-sites/#AUKUS #AusPol #DefenceProcurement #ASA
In the past, I’ve had some exposure to big Defence projects and I am reminded that no project is too big to fail and the reality that all projects also have a ‘political life’ use-by-date to take into account.
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#RexPatrick seems to be the only one asking the right questions, persistently. Australian #Reporters and #Journalists would do well to learn from him.
“Of course, there is a small possibility that we are wrong and there is no estimate. Maybe the Minister has told the ASA he won’t ask for one and they shouldn’t generate one.” (Rex Patrick)
Read more
https://michaelwest.com.au/where-are-the-aukus-nuclear-waste-costings-let-alone-the-dump-sites/#AUKUS #AusPol #DefenceProcurement #ASA
In the past, I’ve had some exposure to big Defence projects and I am reminded that no project is too big to fail and the reality that all projects also have a ‘political life’ use-by-date to take into account.
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A profile of Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Defence, and Geelong’s enduring gift to Australian satirists
Meet Richard Donald Marles. Deputy Prime Minister. Minister for Defence. Member for Corangamite. Product of the Victorian Labor Right, that curious faction where union roots somehow sprout hawkish foreign policy, big-ticket defence contracts, and a preselection culture that makes branch stacking look like a minor administrative irregularity.
He is, in the most precise political sense available, a Liberal in drag. Same tough talk on alliances and deterrence. Same fondness for American hardware and AUKUS largesse. Same instinct to defer to Washington on questions that might benefit from an independent Australian view. Wrapped, however, in just enough factional red to keep the true believers satisfied. All suit, no spark, and a remarkable talent for making national security sound like a mildly confusing numbers meeting that ran somewhat overtime.
Richard Marles is Geelong’s enduring gift to Australian satirists. The question is whether Geelong intended it as a gift or an apology.
The Walking Capability Gap
There is a phrase in defence circles for the gap between what a military is supposed to have and what it actually has. They call it a capability gap. Richard Marles is, in his own person, a walking capability gap: the announced function and the delivered result separated by a distance that no procurement budget has yet been able to close.
The man who fronts up as the steady hand on the tiller is the same man under whose watch the Navy wonders where the hulls went, the budget bleeds billions into procurement black holes, and the ANAO produces findings of ethical and competence failures with the regularity of a quarterly report. He is the stumblebum with the plum in his mouth, projecting authority while the institution he manages projects something considerably more ambiguous.
He inherited the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal and turned it into a rolling saga of delays, cost reassessments, and nervous hand-wringing that would be impressive in its consistency if consistency were the quality being tested. Critics, including people in uniform, people in the audit office, and old Labor warhorses who remember when the party had a clearer relationship with its own principles, point to the endless reviews, the production bottlenecks, and the twenty-year capability hole while Australia waits for American goodwill and Virginia class boats that may or may not materialise on schedule.
Marles’s signature response to any question about whether the Americans will actually deliver is that periodic reviews are “perfectly natural.” Plan B questions he dodges with the practised ease of a man who has decided that the question itself is the problem. Billions committed. Timelines slipping. The public left staring at a price tag somewhere between two hundred billion and three hundred and sixty-eight billion dollars, depending on which estimate one consults and on which day one consults it, for submarines that remain considerably more promise than propeller.
The Procurement Masterclass
Procurement under Marles has been a sustained masterclass in what might charitably be called bureaucratic swamp-dwelling.
The armoured vehicle deals have produced headlines about billions wasted. The ANAO has produced findings of ethical and competence failures with sufficient regularity that they no longer surprise anyone, which is itself a finding worth examining. The response to each procurement disaster has been a reorganisation, and the response to each reorganisation’s failure has been another reorganisation. The most recent iteration produced something called a Defence Delivery Agency, created to fix the procurement problems generated by the previous structural reform, which had been created to fix the problems generated by the one before that.
Wars do not wait for the next reorganisation. Marles’s briefings, apparently, do.
He has poured extra billions into the portfolio. The department continues to be slammed for shortfalls and blowouts. These two facts coexist without apparent embarrassment on anyone’s part, which is perhaps the most remarkable procurement achievement of the period.
The Washington Incident
Then there is the diplomacy, or the performance of it.
Mr Marles flew to Washington at a moment when AUKUS was genuinely uncertain and American goodwill genuinely required active cultivation. The visit produced a clarification from the Pentagon that the encounter with the US Defence Secretary was, in the Pentagon’s own careful formulation, a “happenstance encounter” rather than a formal meeting.
Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence had flown to Washington and bumped into his counterpart in a corridor. This is the diplomatic equivalent of running into your bank manager at the supermarket and counting it as a financial planning session. The image that lodged in the public mind was of Australia’s most senior defence official as the uninvited guest at the cool table, the one who shows up at the party and discovers from the expressions of the other guests that the invitation was more theoretical than practical.
Mr Marles said it went very well.
The Verbal Vapourware Special
In television studios, Mr Marles has developed a signature style that deserves its own name. Call it the Verbal Vapourware Special.
Classic footage shows him in conversation with Karl Stefanovic on the Today Show, a programme not renowned for its forensic rigour, in which Marles produces word salads of sufficient density that Stefanovic, a man not given to extended silences, fills them by playing Trump clips over the minister’s ongoing remarks. The furrowed brow arrives first. Then the careful pause before the answer that does not quite materialise. Then the vague platitude delivered with the gravity of a man who believes that gravity is itself the substance of the answer.
One moment he is warning of the most complex strategic circumstances since World War Two. The next he is “very close, but we’re not saying how close” on flare incidents, or deflecting capability questions with the expression of a man encountering the question for the first time despite having been Defence Minister for three years.
This is not statesmanlike gravitas. This is the performance of a factional numbers man who is considerably more comfortable in a preselection meeting than a television studio, and who has not, in eleven years of public life, fully resolved the tension between those two environments.
The Liberal in Labor Clothing
Here is the thing about Richard Marles that his factional allies would prefer not to discuss in public. On the questions that actually matter in defence policy, he is more hawkish than many in the Coalition. Pro-American to a degree that occasionally makes Liberal defence spokespeople look like peaceniks by comparison. An enthusiast for American hardware whose enthusiasm is not noticeably tempered by the evidence that the hardware in question is, in the case of the F-35, “predominantly unusable” in the year we are being asked to buy more of it.
He waves the progressive flag with the conviction of a man who remembers 1995 very fondly and has not updated the gesture since. The union pedigree produced a defence hawk. The Labor branding covers a set of instincts that would be entirely at home in the moderate wing of the Liberal Party, which is perhaps why the moderate wing of the Liberal Party has largely ceased to exist. Marles ate its lunch.
Consider what this means for Australian defence policy. The minister responsible for the nation’s strategic posture is, on alliance management, hardware procurement, and the fundamental question of Australian strategic autonomy, considerably to the right of the position the Labor Party took to every election between 1972 and 2001. He is more committed to the American alliance than the Americans are currently committed to him, as the happenstance encounter in Washington demonstrated. He is ordering more F-35s in the year the Iran war revealed their limitations, because the procurement cycle does not wait for strategic reality to update it. He is the defence hawk that the Labor Right produces when it decides that appearing tough matters more than thinking clearly. The consequence is a defence policy that satisfies the Americans just enough to avoid a diplomatic incident and satisfies the electorate just enough to avoid a political one, while satisfying neither the strategic logic of Australia’s actual position nor the budget discipline that fifty-three billion dollars over a decade might reasonably demand.
He has, to his genuine credit, stripped medals from Afghanistan-era officers pursuant to the Brereton Report, which required political courage of a kind not always visible in his portfolio management. He has criticised Chinese live-fire drills in the Tasman Sea, correctly. He has appointed Lieutenant General Susan Coyle as the first female chief of army, which is a genuinely historic moment. These are real achievements. They coexist, in the same ministerial career, with the AUKUS cost blowouts, the armoured vehicle disasters, the happenstance Washington encounter, and the word salads on morning television. A man capable of these decisions is also responsible for those failures. That coexistence is a more interesting and more damning claim than simple incompetence.
The Satirist’s Accounting
In a dangerous neighbourhood, with real capability needs and a fuel crisis that has exposed the fragility of everything the defence budget is supposed to protect, Richard Marles is what happens when you take a moderately ambitious right-leaning machine politician, hand him Defence for factional balance, and hope that nobody notices the spark shortage before the next election.
The procurement disasters generate the reorganisations that generate the next procurement disasters. The submarines remain in the future. The F-35 software remains predominantly unusable. The Geelong refinery burned on Wednesday night while the minister responsible for the nation’s strategic circumstances was preparing his remarks for the National Press Club.
Mr Marles said it was not only about investing more. It was about spending better.
Richard Donald Marles, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, remains magnificently, unmistakably, and at considerable public expense, wooden.
All faction, no fire.
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So we still have #AUKUS and #PineGap then
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So we still have #AUKUS and #PineGap then
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Australia’s ‘strategic infantilisation’ by the US is undermining our security in Asia
"We are a perennially anxious nation, seemingly unable to come to terms with the reality of our geographic position. We reflexively identify with faraway members of the Anglosphere, such as the United States and the United Kingdom. But even more consequentially, we outsource responsibility for our foreign and security policy to one great and powerful friend or another. "
Others "view us as an appendage of America’s grand strategy, with little capacity for independent thought, much less action...This may spare our policymakers from the challenge of thinking independently. >>
https://theconversation.com/australias-strategic-infantilisation-by-the-us-is-undermining-our-security-in-asia-278068
#sovereignty #Australia #war #AUKUS #MiddlePowers #belonging #Anglosphere #anxiety #subordination #SubimperialEnforcer #DistanceAndDestiny -
Australia’s ‘strategic infantilisation’ by the US is undermining our security in Asia
"We are a perennially anxious nation, seemingly unable to come to terms with the reality of our geographic position. We reflexively identify with faraway members of the Anglosphere, such as the United States and the United Kingdom. But even more consequentially, we outsource responsibility for our foreign and security policy to one great and powerful friend or another. "
Others "view us as an appendage of America’s grand strategy, with little capacity for independent thought, much less action...This may spare our policymakers from the challenge of thinking independently. >>
https://theconversation.com/australias-strategic-infantilisation-by-the-us-is-undermining-our-security-in-asia-278068
#sovereignty #Australia #war #AUKUS #MiddlePowers #belonging #Anglosphere #anxiety #subordination #SubimperialEnforcer #DistanceAndDestiny -
AUKUS Paktı, Atlantik'ten Pasifik'e uzanan güvenlik mimarisini yeniden şekillendiriyor. Çin'in artan kapasitesine karşı denge unsuru olan bu ittifak, küresel jeopolitikte dönüştürücü bir rol üstleniyor.
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@ferricoxide @spaf or it becomes like Mad Max out there. Life imitating art, art/life, eh? What's in that Vegemite sandwich? Who can it be now?
#MuzakLessons #MenAtWork #WhoCanItBeNow #AUKUS #MadMax #GeoPol
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Maybe #Straya need to regime change the #USA and install a real democracy?
#PreferentialVoting aka #RankedChoiceBallots
#Voting on a Saturday, with a polling place within walking distance for most people, easy to #vote in advance, and not too tricky to vote by post
and an independent federal body to draw electorate (district) boundaries, run polling places, and run the counting - like our #AEC https://www.aec.gov.au/
The Yanks can skip the #CompulsoryVoting if they insist. But it is good for calming politics no need for the "bring out the vote" intensity with "or the opposition will eat your kids" madness. And it makes some fraud even harder to do - like voter impersonation or dead people voting - if everybody votes in every election.#Australian #democracy is not perfect, but i think we're probably close to the "least-broken"?
Our worst problem is #mining company influence, to parties and the public
🎶you're gonna get whacked, by the mining tax🎶The expanding #Green and #Teal #CrossBench is providing some push back on the #mining lobby's environmental bullshit.
But we're still getting ripped off, if the government says we "can't afford" something, they're lying. We have an entire continent full of almost every mineral the world wants to buy, we just need to #tax it properly or nationalise it, not let a few individuals hoard all the profits.
But if we went full محمد مصدق or #Gough #Whitlam … then our friends the USA might decide we'd picked the wrong government and change it for us?
I don't necessarily want to change their government, I want to change how they elect it.
a #TwoPartyState is not really any better than a #OnePartyState
cc other mes @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
#AUKUS #Teals #GoughWhitlam #ClivePalmer #GinaReinheart #GinaRinehart #GautamAdani
#محمدمصدق -
Maybe #Straya need to regime change the #USA and install a real democracy?
#PreferentialVoting aka #RankedChoiceBallots
#Voting on a Saturday, with a polling place within walking distance for most people, easy to #vote in advance, and not too tricky to vote by post
and an independent federal body to draw electorate (district) boundaries, run polling places, and run the counting - like our #AEC https://www.aec.gov.au/
The Yanks can skip the #CompulsoryVoting if they insist. But it is good for calming politics no need for the "bring out the vote" intensity with "or the opposition will eat your kids" madness. And it makes some fraud even harder to do - like voter impersonation or dead people voting - if everybody votes in every election.#Australian #democracy is not perfect, but i think we're probably close to the "least-broken"?
Our worst problem is #mining company influence, to parties and the public
🎶you're gonna get whacked, by the mining tax🎶The expanding #Green and #Teal #CrossBench is providing some push back on the #mining lobby's environmental bullshit.
But we're still getting ripped off, if the government says we "can't afford" something, they're lying. We have an entire continent full of almost every mineral the world wants to buy, we just need to #tax it properly or nationalise it, not let a few individuals hoard all the profits.
But if we went full محمد مصدق or #Gough #Whitlam … then our friends the USA might decide we'd picked the wrong government and change it for us?
I don't necessarily want to change their government, I want to change how they elect it.
a #TwoPartyState is not really any better than a #OnePartyState
cc other mes @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
#AUKUS #Teals #GoughWhitlam #ClivePalmer #GinaReinheart #GinaRinehart #GautamAdani
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wow ... who needs spy balloons when you have Google maps.
US Stealth bombers parked just outside Brisbane at RAAF Amberley Base.
Six USAF B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers have been in Australia since last August—in all capable of carrying a total of 96 of the 1.1 tonne B83 nuclear bombs to America’s enemy du jour.
See for yourself, check google maps: RAAF Amberley Base
#auspol #aukus #nuclearbomb #nuclearbombs #stealth #stealthbomber #spyballoon #brisbane #amberley
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CW: UK Pols
Ministers are said to be open “in principle” to the idea of building conventionally-armed #nuclearpowered #submarines like Britain’s #AstuteClass for them which cost nearly £2billion each. #Australia pulled out of a £65billion deal with #France in favour of building nuclear submarines through the #AUKUS pact — sparking a major diplomatic row in 2021. #Anglosphere #China
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21356516/uk-billion-nuclear-sub-deal-australia/