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

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.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-07/shoebridge-beyond-capacity-aukus-defend-sea-trade-lanes/106769392

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

LOMBARDIA:MUORE OPERATRICE SOCIO-SANITARIA DURANTE UN TURNO SOLA CON 33 PAZIENTI.

https://radioblackout.org/2026/06/saluzzo-muore-operatrice-socio-sanitaria-durante-un-turno-sola-con-33-pazienti/

My #SSN was exposed in a #breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with

A weird text from my dad in February sent me on a months-long quest to solve a mystery that has been troubling an odd group of victims from a #ColumbiaUniversity data breach last year. That group? People with absolutely no connection to the school.

The text included a photo of a letter from #Columbia , informing me that I was a victim of a data breach last June, one that exposed a wide range of sensitive information, including 1.8 million #SocialSecurity numbers.
#privacy #security

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/my-ssn-was-exposed-in-a-breach-at-columbia-a-school-i-have-no-connection-with/

"My #SSN was exposed in a breach at #Columbia—a #school I have no connection with"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/my-ssn-was-exposed-in-a-breach-at-columbia-a-school-i-have-no-connection-with/

#privacy #cybersecurity #DataBreach #university #education #college

Apparently, social security numbers in the US were used as student identifiers in SAT exams in the past, and widely shared with universities.

It's absolutely puzzling how the supposedly sensitive #SSN (that can't be changed) is used for virtually everything in the US - you can't even get an offer from an internet provider without disclosing yours.

And in case it leaks, you get 2 years of free credit monitoring, making it *your* responsibility to make sure that you don't become a victim of identity theft.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/my-ssn-was-exposed-in-a-breach-at-columbia-a-school-i-have-no-connection-with/

#arstechnica #leaks #privacy

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

#AusPol

"La riforma #Schillaci la salute mentale la nomina appena. Nessuna regione è all'altezza degli standard necessari. L'82% dei pazienti interrompe le cure"

#SSN #Modena #Sanità #Salute #SaluteMentale

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2026/05/19/lo-psichiatra-ducci-la-riforma-schillaci-la-salute-mentale-la-nomina-appena-nessuna-regione-e-allaltezza-degli-standard-necessari/8391102/