#aukus — Public Fediverse posts
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SA premier Peter Malinauskas at the ALP national conference - podcast
By Presented by Tom McIlroy and Dan Jervis-Bardy. The executive producer is Allison ChanSpeaking with political editor Tom McIlroy and chief political correspondent Dan Jervis-Bardy at the 50th Labor conference in Adelaide, Peter Malinauskas talks about his own state contest with One Nation and why progressives should not speak down to Pauline Hanson’s supporters.
#Australianpolitics #PeterMalinauskas #Laborparty #OneNation #SouthAustralia #Australianews #Aukus #TheGuardian #PresentedbyTomMcIlroy #DanJervisBardyTheexecutiveproducerisAllisonChan
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RE: https://rssfeed.media/@guardianfeeds/116978142604629197
From now on I’m not going to argue about #labor. I’m just going to say they don’t reflect my #values. #robodebt #gambling #genocide #federalicac #ndis #aukus #artdegrees #corruption #lobbyists #grifters #fossilfuel
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Systemic decline requires systemic thinking. Australia's toxic relationship with the US, militarism, genocide, environmental destruction, the fossil fuel lobby, growing inequality, the growth of Far Right politics, and First Nations' rights are all connected. One cannot treat any one of them without treating all of them.
"Australian communities are not safe while we are closely allied with a rogue toxic global force that steals and destroys great swathes of ocean and land, supplies arms to genocidal maniacs, coerces, bullies and kills at will and acts only in the interests of the rich and powerful 1%."
https://ausrebellion.earth/news/break-free-from-the-us-and-fossil-fuels/
#auspol #ALPConference #adelaide #xr #risingtide #solarpunk #Greens #AUKUS #APAN #pinegap #peace #canberra
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Systemic decline requires systemic thinking. Australia's toxic relationship with the US, militarism, genocide, environmental destruction, the fossil fuel lobby, growing inequality, the growth of Far Right politics, and First Nations' rights are all connected. One cannot treat any one of them without treating all of them.
"Australian communities are not safe while we are closely allied with a rogue toxic global force that steals and destroys great swathes of ocean and land, supplies arms to genocidal maniacs, coerces, bullies and kills at will and acts only in the interests of the rich and powerful 1%."
A media release from XR Australia.
https://ausrebellion.earth/news/break-free-from-the-us-and-fossil-fuels/
#auspol #ALPConference #adelaide #xr #risingtide #solarpunk #Greens #AUKUS #APAN #pinegap #peace #canberra
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A global threat for millennia: experts warn Australia’s nuclear submarine legacy will be weapons-usable uranium cache
By Ben DohertyExclusive: Uranium waste from Aukus submarines will be enriched to an estimated 80%: the same level as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/25/aukus-nuclear-submarines-danger-weapons-grade-uranium
#Aukus #Australianews #Australianpolitics #Environment #TheGuardian #BenDoherty
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This #labor conference is a joke
1 Sponsored by the #gambling companies
2 foreign countries sent representatives. Hence #China walking out because #Taiwan was there.
3 More money to help the defence industries for the USA and UK and calling it money for South Australia #aukus
4 Creating a new grifter group called a Fair Work court which will be just another group that does things hidden and has no purpose but everyone at the conference wetting themselves with joy.Oh and all the things #albanese promised at the last elections lost in time: federal ICAC to answer for #robodebt, gambling laws, change the debt that children doing arts will now have and rolling back the destructive impact it has on studying humanities. All the things he said running through my head.
But the labor ministers keep their perks, Qantas lounges, seats at games and concerts, flights by rich benefactors….oh wait that is Pauline Hanson but she isn’t technically doing anything wrong.
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This #labor conference is a joke
1 Sponsored by the #gambling companies
2 foreign countries sent representatives. Hence #China walking out because #Taiwan was there.
3 More money to help the defence industries for the USA and UK and calling it money for South Australia #aukus
4 Creating a new grifter group called a Fair Work court which will be just another group that does things hidden and has no purpose but everyone at the conference wetting themselves with joy.Oh and all the things #albanese promised at the last elections lost in time: federal ICAC to answer for #robodebt, gambling laws, change the debt that children doing arts will now have and rolling back the destructive impact it has on studying humanities. All the things he said running through my head.
But the labor ministers keep their perks, Qantas lounges, seats at games and concerts, flights by rich benefactors….oh wait that is Pauline Hanson but she isn’t technically doing anything wrong.
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#Billions in new funding for #AUKUS shipyards in #Adelaide is another step towards making #Australia's #nuclearsubmarine program "a reality”.
Riiiiiiight. Spending billions for subs we’ll never see. #auspol #LaborSuckers
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-23/adelaide-aukus-shipyards-new-funding/106951802
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#Billions in new funding for #AUKUS shipyards in #Adelaide is another step towards making #Australia's #nuclearsubmarine program "a reality”.
Riiiiiiight. Spending billions for subs we’ll never see. #auspol #LaborSuckers
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-23/adelaide-aukus-shipyards-new-funding/106951802
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Kia ora #Australia, now about this #AUKUS business you're getting yourselves and the south pacific caught up in.
There's a lot of us here in #Aotearoa #NewZealand, I'm sure there is in #Aussie too, who ain't particularly keen on being used for another illegal #US proxy war particularly one against our geopolitical neighbour and biggest trading partner #China.
Sure would appreciate you getting your #AusPol govt to pull its head in, we've got an election in November to try and oust our #Trump friendly #NZPol coalition of corruption before it's too late.
Anyhow, I reckon this message from #AusGreens Senator David Shoebridge warning about the cost and purpose of your big fancy nuclear submarines needs to be herd across Aus and NZ.
Ka kite - Aotearoa
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Kia ora #Australia, now about this #AUKUS business you're getting yourselves and the south pacific caught up in.
There's a lot of us here in #Aotearoa #NewZealand, I'm sure there is in #Aussie too, who ain't particularly keen on being used for another illegal #US proxy war particularly one against our geopolitical neighbour and biggest trading partner #China.
Sure would appreciate you getting your #AusPol govt to pull its head in, we've got an election in November to try and oust our #Trump friendly #NZPol coalition of corruption before it's too late.
Anyhow, I reckon this message from #AusGreens Senator David Shoebridge warning about the cost and purpose of your big fancy nuclear submarines needs to be herd across Aus and NZ.
Ka kite - Aotearoa
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#AUKUS has already been a complete failure for years, it will NEVER provide submarines for Australia's defence, it will never even provide 'defence' seeing as those planned subs are already years out of date and the plans well known globally (even to prospective foe nations).. Aukus is nothing more than corrupt Labor's attempt to fund & appease the DT Regime, nothing more, nothing less, Labor know it, Liberals know it, the UK knows is, the DT Regime knows it, and the people of Australia know it.
#AppeasementCash #LootingTaxpayersToFundRegimes #LaborFail #Complicit #Corruption #News #AUSPol
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#AUKUS has already been a complete failure for years, it will NEVER provide submarines for Australia's defence, it will never even provide 'defence' seeing as those planned subs are already years out of date and the plans well known globally (even to prospective foe nations).. Aukus is nothing more than corrupt Labor's attempt to fund & appease the DT Regime, nothing more, nothing less, Labor know it, Liberals know it, the UK knows is, the DT Regime knows it, and the people of Australia know it.
#AppeasementCash #LootingTaxpayersToFundRegimes #LaborFail #Complicit #Corruption #News #AUSPol
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Labor has a proud history of debate. So why won’t it interrogate the $368bn Aukus pact?
By Peter GarrettDespite substantial reservations about the submarine deal, it’s unlikely to be seriously examined at the ALP national conference
#Aukus #Laborparty #Australianpolitics #Australianmilitary #TheGuardian #PeterGarrett
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Labor has a proud history of debate. So why won’t it interrogate the $368bn Aukus pact? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/23/alp-conference-why-wont-labor-interrogate-aukus-nuclear-submarines #Aukus #LaborParty #AustralianPolitics #AustralianMilitary
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We are about half-way through the hearings in this inquiry. We still have Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong … We have heard much about the lack of consultation with local communities and First Nation peoples, the lack of preparedness in the event of an accident, the loss of sovereignty involved in this project. We have heard local people, men and women, weep as they tried to express their anxiety for their families and future.
https://pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/07/aukus-is-being-exposed-but-will-anything-change/?
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We are about half-way through the hearings in this inquiry. We still have Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong … We have heard much about the lack of consultation with local communities and First Nation peoples, the lack of preparedness in the event of an accident, the loss of sovereignty involved in this project. We have heard local people, men and women, weep as they tried to express their anxiety for their families and future.
https://pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/07/aukus-is-being-exposed-but-will-anything-change/?
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#US, #UK and #Australia agree pact to protect #underseacables, ‘the arteries of modern civilisation’
The governments plan to develop new unmanned undersea vehicles as part of trilateral #AUKUS pact.
Around 570 cables carry 95%-99% of world’s intercontinental #telecommunications data. Fiber cables can carry terabits per second; satellites handle far less. And "networks of green energy cables carrying #electricity are also starting to sprawl across the world's seabeds."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/31/world/aukus-seabed-cables-defense-intl -
#US, #UK and #Australia agree pact to protect #underseacables, ‘the arteries of modern civilisation’
The governments plan to develop new unmanned undersea vehicles as part of trilateral #AUKUS pact.
Around 570 cables carry 95%-99% of world’s intercontinental #telecommunications data. Fiber cables can carry terabits per second; satellites handle far less. And "networks of green energy cables carrying #electricity are also starting to sprawl across the world's seabeds."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/31/world/aukus-seabed-cables-defense-intl -
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Whistleblowers EXPOSE #Palantir £330M NHS SCAM
Thiel & Karp have their secrets exposed
ALP must stop this insidious relationship with them. It's their job to PROTECT AUSTRALIA, not get us PWND by psychopathic sadistic freaks. #Auspol #AUKUS
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Whistleblowers EXPOSE #Palantir £330M NHS SCAM
Thiel & Karp have their secrets exposed
ALP must stop this insidious relationship with them. It's their job to PROTECT AUSTRALIA, not get us PWND by psychopathic sadistic freaks. #Auspol #AUKUS
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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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There will be disagreement at next week’s Labor conference – but don’t expect the feuds of the past
By Dan Jervis-Bardy Chief political correspondentIt’s hoped a deliberate demonstration of ‘constructive unity’ by the party will entrench the public’s perception of Labor stability
#Australianpolitics #AnthonyAlbanese #Laborparty #OneNation #Aukus #Australianews #Coalition #TheGuardian #DanJervisBardyChiefpoliticalcorrespondent
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Modelled this AUKUS submarine in Blender3D for some box art for my Magnavox Odyssey game. A little throwaway model banged up in under half an hour but happy with it
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Modelled this AUKUS submarine in Blender3D for some box art for my Magnavox Odyssey game. A little throwaway model banged up in under half an hour but happy with it
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Japan, Australia, Canada and New Zealand can strengthen — not duplicate — the region's growing network of minilateral partnerships https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/07/15/world/new-indo-pacific-quad/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #quad #aukus #squad #australia #canada #newzealand #indopacific #china #nato #defense
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Japan, Australia, Canada and New Zealand can strengthen — not duplicate — the region's growing network of minilateral partnerships https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/07/15/world/new-indo-pacific-quad/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #quad #aukus #squad #australia #canada #newzealand #indopacific #china #nato #defense
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Labor planning to cut 145,000 people off NDIS Autism support
"Almost 145,000 Australians receiving support for autism on the national disability insurance scheme (NDIS) are expected to be removed by the end of the decade, internal estimates show, as the federal government moves ahead with plans to narrow the focus of the “diluted” $52bn scheme toward those with significant and complex needs."
..while funneling hundreds of billions to the DT regime for the already-failed #AUKUS fiasco, tax breaks for the Fossil Fuel syndicates (Labor's major "sponsors") and fast-tracking AI data-centres..
#LaborFail #Corruption #AUSPol #News #HumanRights #Activism #Disability #NDIS
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Labor planning to cut 145,000 people off NDIS Autism support
"Almost 145,000 Australians receiving support for autism on the national disability insurance scheme (NDIS) are expected to be removed by the end of the decade, internal estimates show, as the federal government moves ahead with plans to narrow the focus of the “diluted” $52bn scheme toward those with significant and complex needs."
..while funneling hundreds of billions to the DT regime for the already-failed #AUKUS fiasco, tax breaks for the Fossil Fuel syndicates (Labor's major "sponsors") and fast-tracking AI data-centres..
#LaborFail #Corruption #AUSPol #News #HumanRights #Activism #Disability #NDIS
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#AUKUS #DefenceProcurements #GovtContracts #Budget #ThalesContract #ANAO #AuditReport #AusPol #PatConroyMP“ *Defence has bungled its disastrous $1.9bn munitions contract with Thales. What hope does AUKUS have* ?
Despite the government’s recognition of the project’s risks, AUKUS is full steam ahead. But if Defence can’t manage two munition factories, how is it going to manage a much riskier program with gigantic cost implications?
Further, how much impact will a budget-draining project like AUKUS have on goals like munition supply resilience? As Crikey understands, several projects are already being trimmed to ensure there’s enough money available to meet the financial commitments made under AUKUS.
Munition supply in time of war is critical, as are fuel security and industry capability and resilience. But as ANAO’s audit, the war in the Middle East and our experience during the pandemic show, we aren’t getting these things right. If you struggle to buy bullets, you probably shouldn’t be focusing on buying submarines that only exist on paper and that break the laws of physics.”
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#AUKUS #DefenceProcurements #GovtContracts #Budget #ThalesContract #ANAO #AuditReport #AusPol #PatConroyMP“ *Defence has bungled its disastrous $1.9bn munitions contract with Thales. What hope does AUKUS have* ?
Despite the government’s recognition of the project’s risks, AUKUS is full steam ahead. But if Defence can’t manage two munition factories, how is it going to manage a much riskier program with gigantic cost implications?
Further, how much impact will a budget-draining project like AUKUS have on goals like munition supply resilience? As Crikey understands, several projects are already being trimmed to ensure there’s enough money available to meet the financial commitments made under AUKUS.
Munition supply in time of war is critical, as are fuel security and industry capability and resilience. But as ANAO’s audit, the war in the Middle East and our experience during the pandemic show, we aren’t getting these things right. If you struggle to buy bullets, you probably shouldn’t be focusing on buying submarines that only exist on paper and that break the laws of physics.”
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#AUKUS #DefenceProcurements #GovtContracts #Budget #ThalesContract #ANAO #AuditReport #AusPol #PatConroyMP“ *Defence has bungled its disastrous $1.9bn munitions contract with Thales. What hope does AUKUS have* ?
Further, it seems Defence has been getting some very simple things wrong. For example, ANAO found there was a gap of $109 million between the publicly reported total contract value and Defence’s total financial commitments under the contract. The dog ate my $109 million!
But the overarching concern uncovered in ANAO’s new audit is that it seems Defence, like a kid in a candy store, is simply treating these munitions facilities as a place to buy bullets and bombs — not looking at them as a domestic asset to meet future defence needs.
Hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars: Tallying Defence’s toxic submarine waste
Hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars: Tallying Defence’s toxic submarine waste
There was no focus on resilience and scalability moving forward. Industrial preparedness and manufacturing uplift were not being built into contracts, with attention placed instead on baseline operations and the delivery of mature products — and despite this, there’s been a 70% increase in breakdown maintenance. Perhaps even more alarming was the reported risk of a shrinking pool of specialist personnel.One imagines a local garage where the mechanics are working with increasingly unreliable equipment, and there’s no plan to get the workshop ready for electric vehicles. The older mechanics are happy working on Ford GTs and Holden Commodores, but it’s hard to retain younger mechanics keen to work on recent and emerging car technologies. You’re left wondering if the garage is going to be there when you might need it to fix your car.
What hope does AUKUS have?
The second instalment of ANAO’s audit of the Thales contract comes in the wake of the government’s realisation, finally, that Defence procurement is a basket case. As Crikey has extensively covered, Defence has wasted colossal amounts of money on its projects, which are almost always hampered by delays and cost blowouts.
At a Press Club address earlier this month, Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy talked of one navy procurement he was familiar with, stating, “When navy wrote the capability requirement that breached the laws of physics, Defence went to the market asking for those laws of physics to be broken, and [industry] contractually agreed to breach the laws of physics! And then, when the project inevitably fell apart, each blamed the other for not being able to breach the laws of physics.”
He then went on to state that reform was afoot, with a greater focus on off-the-shelf options that present much lower risks. But, ironically, those reforms aren’t being applied to the biggest and costliest bespoke Defence project: our trilateral AUKUS agreement with the US and UK over nuclear-powered submarines.”
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#AUKUS #DefenceProcurements #GovtContracts #Budget #ThalesContract #ANAO #AuditReport #AusPol #PatConroyMP“ *Defence has bungled its disastrous $1.9bn munitions contract with Thales. What hope does AUKUS have* ?
Further, it seems Defence has been getting some very simple things wrong. For example, ANAO found there was a gap of $109 million between the publicly reported total contract value and Defence’s total financial commitments under the contract. The dog ate my $109 million!
But the overarching concern uncovered in ANAO’s new audit is that it seems Defence, like a kid in a candy store, is simply treating these munitions facilities as a place to buy bullets and bombs — not looking at them as a domestic asset to meet future defence needs.
Hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars: Tallying Defence’s toxic submarine waste
Hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars: Tallying Defence’s toxic submarine waste
There was no focus on resilience and scalability moving forward. Industrial preparedness and manufacturing uplift were not being built into contracts, with attention placed instead on baseline operations and the delivery of mature products — and despite this, there’s been a 70% increase in breakdown maintenance. Perhaps even more alarming was the reported risk of a shrinking pool of specialist personnel.One imagines a local garage where the mechanics are working with increasingly unreliable equipment, and there’s no plan to get the workshop ready for electric vehicles. The older mechanics are happy working on Ford GTs and Holden Commodores, but it’s hard to retain younger mechanics keen to work on recent and emerging car technologies. You’re left wondering if the garage is going to be there when you might need it to fix your car.
What hope does AUKUS have?
The second instalment of ANAO’s audit of the Thales contract comes in the wake of the government’s realisation, finally, that Defence procurement is a basket case. As Crikey has extensively covered, Defence has wasted colossal amounts of money on its projects, which are almost always hampered by delays and cost blowouts.
At a Press Club address earlier this month, Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy talked of one navy procurement he was familiar with, stating, “When navy wrote the capability requirement that breached the laws of physics, Defence went to the market asking for those laws of physics to be broken, and [industry] contractually agreed to breach the laws of physics! And then, when the project inevitably fell apart, each blamed the other for not being able to breach the laws of physics.”
He then went on to state that reform was afoot, with a greater focus on off-the-shelf options that present much lower risks. But, ironically, those reforms aren’t being applied to the biggest and costliest bespoke Defence project: our trilateral AUKUS agreement with the US and UK over nuclear-powered submarines.”
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#AUKUS #DefenceProcurements #GovtContracts #Budget #ThalesContract #ANAO #AuditReport #AusPol #PatConroyMP“ *Defence has bungled its disastrous $1.9bn munitions contract with Thales. What hope does AUKUS have* ?
A billion-dollar munitions contract was awarded to a French state-owned company after a calamitous, one-horse tender process. The second instalment of an audit report reveals a litany of concerns.”
REX PATRICK
JUL 14, 2026
(Article *currently* signup walled)
“In 2020, the Australian government signed a 10-year $1.2 billion contract with Thales — a partially French state-owned defence company — to operate two Commonwealth-owned factories to domestically produce guided weapons, explosive ordnance and other munitions for the Australian Defence Force.As Bernard Keane wrote for Crikey in 2024, this billion-dollar contract was awarded after a tender process that only included Thales as a bidder, and for which Thales assisted in writing the tender documents. Despite this, Thales still bungled its proposal, with it considered significantly deficient and “high” risk, and with 199 non-compliances against the tender documents that Thales helped create.
Despite this, Defence awarded the contract to Thales anyway.
We know all of this from part one of an audit conducted by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) in 2024, which found the munitions contract with Thales lacked probity and involved unethical conduct. (There was also evidence that a Defence official had solicited a bottle of champagne from a Thales representative.) The unethical conduct was referred to the black hole that is our National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), and nothing has been seen since.It painted, as Keane wrote, a damning picture of “the worst Commonwealth purchasing exercise ever”.
A waste of taxpayer money
Last week, ANAO published the second instalment of its examination of this munitions contract with Thales, looking more specifically at the conduct of the contract’s implementation since it was awarded.
ANAO asked, essentially, does the Defence Department have effective contracting and governance in place, and has it managed the contract effectively to achieve value for money for the taxpayer? The answer — no, not really. Defence has only been “partially effective” and could only provide “limited assurance” that it has spent taxpayer money efficiently, the report states.
It also found that the original munitions contract value with Thales has increased by $608 million to a total of $1.9 billion. That is not necessarily an indicator of poor performance, as the increase has largely been associated with increased production orders. But ANAO did find that $43 million had been wasted on cancelled orders and products not delivered as planned.
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#AUKUS #DefenceProcurements #GovtContracts #Budget #ThalesContract #ANAO #AuditReport #AusPol #PatConroyMP“ *Defence has bungled its disastrous $1.9bn munitions contract with Thales. What hope does AUKUS have* ?
A billion-dollar munitions contract was awarded to a French state-owned company after a calamitous, one-horse tender process. The second instalment of an audit report reveals a litany of concerns.”
REX PATRICK
JUL 14, 2026
(Article *currently* signup walled)
“In 2020, the Australian government signed a 10-year $1.2 billion contract with Thales — a partially French state-owned defence company — to operate two Commonwealth-owned factories to domestically produce guided weapons, explosive ordnance and other munitions for the Australian Defence Force.As Bernard Keane wrote for Crikey in 2024, this billion-dollar contract was awarded after a tender process that only included Thales as a bidder, and for which Thales assisted in writing the tender documents. Despite this, Thales still bungled its proposal, with it considered significantly deficient and “high” risk, and with 199 non-compliances against the tender documents that Thales helped create.
Despite this, Defence awarded the contract to Thales anyway.
We know all of this from part one of an audit conducted by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) in 2024, which found the munitions contract with Thales lacked probity and involved unethical conduct. (There was also evidence that a Defence official had solicited a bottle of champagne from a Thales representative.) The unethical conduct was referred to the black hole that is our National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), and nothing has been seen since.It painted, as Keane wrote, a damning picture of “the worst Commonwealth purchasing exercise ever”.
A waste of taxpayer money
Last week, ANAO published the second instalment of its examination of this munitions contract with Thales, looking more specifically at the conduct of the contract’s implementation since it was awarded.
ANAO asked, essentially, does the Defence Department have effective contracting and governance in place, and has it managed the contract effectively to achieve value for money for the taxpayer? The answer — no, not really. Defence has only been “partially effective” and could only provide “limited assurance” that it has spent taxpayer money efficiently, the report states.
It also found that the original munitions contract value with Thales has increased by $608 million to a total of $1.9 billion. That is not necessarily an indicator of poor performance, as the increase has largely been associated with increased production orders. But ANAO did find that $43 million had been wasted on cancelled orders and products not delivered as planned.
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It seems to me that after all the angst I’ve seen here against the #AUKUS deal and especially against #TierOne and the #SSN plans, none of these anti-AUKUS tooters have commented/?read? my 4 part toot full of details about the collaboration history of #UK #US SSNs as well as their nuclear #reactors or even read the expert opinion offering a #PlanB I also tooted recently.
Shows you that anger needs very little to feed on while closing the open mind to more clarity and more details on the object of its obsession. No pointing fingers here, it’s just an observation.
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It seems to me that after all the angst I’ve seen here against the #AUKUS deal and especially against #TierOne and the #SSN plans, none of these anti-AUKUS tooters have commented/?read? my 4 part toot full of details about the collaboration history of #UK #US SSNs as well as their nuclear #reactors or even read the expert opinion offering a #PlanB I also tooted recently.
Shows you that anger needs very little to feed on while closing the open mind to more clarity and more details on the object of its obsession. No pointing fingers here, it’s just an observation.
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What I’ve been reading about: US-UK SSN Colaboration and what it means for sovereignty. Is there a kill switch? What does it mean for AUKUS?
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Source: Themistocles
Posted : May26
In Comments of https://www.navylookout.com/the-evolution-of-uk-nuclear-submarine-reactors-and-rolls-royces-central-role/It’s good information if one is going to argue about AUKUS TierONE to any informed length. I for one, learned a lot from reading it and will never see AUKUS in the same light.
#AUKUS #SSN #SG9 #PWR3plus #Astute #Vanguard #NuclearPropulsion #Submarine #SSNBM #UK #US #ReactorDesign #RollsRoyce
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BOGAN INTEL LIVE: Manufacturing Consent for Conflict – ASPI’s China Narrative & Australia’s Real Choices w/Major Cameron Leckie, Dr Warwick Powell & Joel @[email protected] #auspol #AUKUS
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This is an interesting article regarding #AUKUS and a #PlanB (should there be one) by an expert in submarines (see article for details). The author makes a case for returning to the French to build the Australia #SSN on the basis that the #K15 reactor used in the #French construction uses Low Enriched Uranium (#LEU) the kind that is use in civilian nuclear industry. And there is a lot to be said for the idea (worth the read).