Well said by Waleed Aly. It does feel like the AUKUS deal was sprung on us with little warning or debate, and the US is now so unreliable an ally that we doubt the subs will ever be delivered. No wonder people want a proper debate about it.

"To debate this is to debate who Australia is, especially when it is caught between an increasingly erratic ally and China. And that’s why AUKUS is a flashpoint. In political terms, criticism of AUKUS runs leftward from the teals. Support begins within Labor and runs rightward to One Nation. Critics are likelier to be sceptical of the US alliance. Supporters are more likely to see China – which has plenty of nuclear submarines – as a security threat, and regard our integration with the US as too thorough to unwind. While we trade blows on whether and what kind of submarines will arrive, we’re really debating whether to embrace a huge geopolitical realignment."

#auspol #USpol #AUKUS #defence https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-big-unspoken-issue-that-drives-our-strong-feelings-about-second-hand-submarines-20260604-p603xu.html

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

"AUKUS has always been a one-sided deal in which the US reaps the benefits while Australia accepts the risks. The agreement Australia entered into provides the US with numerous opportunities to cancel or modify the deal. Washington simply acted on what was permitted."

#AUKUS #AusPol
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260603-australia-has-been-the-victim-of-an-aukus-bait-and-switch

Minister dismisses Labor colleague Ed Husic’s criticism of secondhand Aukus submarines deal as ‘disingenuous’
By Tom McIlroy and Ben Doherty

Pat Conroy says three used Virginia-class nuclear submarines from the US will be cheaper to buy and run

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/03/aukus-australia-secondhand-nuclear-submarines-deal-criticism-defence-minister-reponse

#Aukus #RichardMarles #PeteHegseth #Australianews #Australianpolitics #TomMcIlroy #BenDoherty

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