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AUKUS Revamped: The Complete Militarisation of Australia

AUKUS Revamped: The Complete Militarisation of Australia

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Australian Futures: Bringing AUKUS Out of Stealth Mode – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Multinational defence companies have lined up to fund advertisements which demonstrated their patriotic commitment to AUKUS with the support of the South Australia Government.

Each of the defence companies listed maintains a profitable involvement in both military and civilian projects. The KBR engineering company of Houston emphasizes a benign involvement in Australian civilian engineering projects like the Snowy Mountains upgrade and the Adelaide to Darwin Railway. This company is more deeply involved in the military sector globally.

Source: Australian Futures: Bringing AUKUS Out of Stealth Mode – » The Australian Independent Media Network

ALP Government,

Australia and the AUKUS nuclear waste-dump clause

Australia has entered into a toxic agreement that can only leave us – and the planet – worse off than the sum of our greatest fears.

Source: Australia and the AUKUS nuclear waste-dump clause

ALP Government,

Labor Budget 2024-25: $10b to support nuclear shipyards of ageing US/UK empires – Pearls and Irritations

AUKUS Nuclear submarine in the deep sea, The US, UK, and Australia have announced a historic security pact in the Asia-Pacific, Australia new submarine deals with the US. France upset. Artists impression. Image iStock/ Homayon Kabir

Grassroots anti-AUKUS campaign, Labor Against War, has called on the Federal Labor Government to come clean about just how much it is pouring into US and UK coffers to rebuild their ageing nuclear shipyards, both of which build nuclear-armed submarines.

Source: Labor Budget 2024-25: $10b to support nuclear shipyards of ageing US/UK empires – Pearls and Irritations

Australia

The AUKUS Cash Cow: Robbing the Australian Taxpayer – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Ultimately, this absurd spectacle entails a windfall of cash, ill-deserved funding to two powers with little promise of returns and no guarantees of speedier boat construction. The shipyards of both the UK and the United States can take much joy from this, as can those keen to further proliferate nuclear platforms, leaving the Australian voter with that terrible feeling of being, well, mugged.

Source: The AUKUS Cash Cow: Robbing the Australian Taxpayer – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Issues Changing the Nation: Never Ending AUKUS Submarine Policy Sagas – » The Australian Independent Media Network

However, cheering on the military is historically a dangerous practice. During the reign of Queen Victoria, the British Empire was once united around the need for Freedom of Navigation to advance its economic diplomacy against China in the two Opium Wars. The US and France joined Britain in the second round in the Opium Wars (1856-60)

. Britain once had a balance of payments problem with China during the Days of Empire. It authorized the export of opium to China to address this imbalance.

Imperial China rejected Britain’s efforts against China in the two Opium Wars.

Source: Issues Changing the Nation: Never Ending AUKUS Submarine Policy Sagas – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Banana Shire takes AUKUS by storm. What’s the scam? – Michael West

AKUKUS Forum and the Banana Shire

We can only speculate on which of these areas will benefit most from Submarines being built in the UK and the US, the announcement is long on rhetoric and very, very short on detail. But who are we to argue? That AUKUS pot of gold is very real, even if the rainbow isn’t.

Source: Banana Shire takes AUKUS by storm. What’s the scam? – Michael West

Australian Scams, financial scams, Political Scams

Scam of the Year 2023: nine of the niftiest scams in Australian business and politics – Michael West

Michael West Media, scam of the year

Announcing the Scam of the Year awards in Australian business and politics. What an embarrassment of rorting riches it is. Michael West with the countdown of elite scams, the creme de la creme, unvarnished, what you will not read in fossil media.

Source: Scam of the Year 2023: nine of the niftiest scams in Australian business and politics – Michael West

ALP Government,

The scam within a scam. US, UK officials are flying high on the AUKUS teat. – Michael West

Flying High

In October, MWM revealed that the Australian Submarine Agency had spent $15.2 million taxpayer dollars on travel over two years. But wait, there’s more to that story. Much more.

Source: The scam within a scam. US, UK officials are flying high on the AUKUS teat. – Michael West

ALP Government,

Join our Team! AUKUS foreign expenditure sinkhole blows out to $12B … already – Michael West

Submarine Sinkhole

All this for America’s second-hand subs as the promised new ones will never made or be delivered

The Albanese Government has just announced another $3B into the US submarine industrial base, in addition to the $4.7B already committed. It’s money that should have been spent in Australia instead. Rex Patrick reports on a widening foreign expenditure sinkhole.

Source: Join our Team! AUKUS foreign expenditure sinkhole blows out to $12B … already – Michael West

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AUKUS: The greatest policy blunder – Pearls and Irritations

AUKUS banner with USA, UK, Australia flag icons.

Whether or not one is a supporter of the AUKUS project, it is impossible not to see the shortcomings of the responsible ministers and officials as putting Australia’s security at the mercy of forces the government cannot affect. Collectively successive governments might have authored the greatest policy blunder in Australia’s history.

Source: AUKUS: The greatest policy blunder – Pearls and Irritations

Informed Comment

AUKUS Gravy Plane: $633K a month in flights with the taxpayer picking up the tab – Michael West

Jacqui Lambie, AUKUS

The AUKUS nuclear submarine program team has racked up a travel bill of $15.2m over the past two years. By anyone’s standard, that’s an incredible amount. But in the context of Anthony Albanese’s opulent $368B nuclear boat program, people inside the tent will see $15m as a drop in a very large ocean of funds. Rex Patrick looks to the details of the gravy plane.

Source: AUKUS Gravy Plane: $633K a month in flights with the taxpayer picking up the tab – Michael West

ALP Government,

AUKUS submarines money drain is well under way – to the UK and the US – Michael West

Virginia Class submarine build

Paul Keating rightly calls it the “worst deal in all history,” and the Albanese Government intends to use Australian taxpayer’s money to build up the US and UK submarine construction and ship repair industry. Rex Patrick looks into the AUKUS detail.

Source: AUKUS submarines money drain is well under way – to the UK and the US – Michael West

Informed Opinion

Scott Morrison published Australian and US Government secrets regarding AUKUS. So why has Morrison not been charged?Kangaroo Court of Australia

Scott Morrison leaked US and Australian government documents in October/November 2021 to embarrass US President Joe Biden but Scott Morrison has never been questioned or charged regarding the leaks unlike others who have done the same or similar.

Julian Assange and Daniel Duggan are both in jail and in the process of being extradited to the US and whistleblowers Richard Boyle and David McBride are facing charges for leaking Australian government information.

Source: Scott Morrison published Australian and US Government secrets regarding AUKUS. So why has Morrison not been charged?Kangaroo Court of Australia

ALP Government,

Marles Mauled: Rex Patrick demolishes Defence sophistry on AUKUS, submarines, nuclear – Michael West

AUKUS

Labor’s Shame, However, the worm will turn,

At this week’s Labor Conference Defence Minister Richard Marles distributed a 32 paragraph statement for insertion into the ALP National Platform to explain the Albanese’s Government’s rationale for an incredible $368B of public expenditure on submarines. At $11.5B per paragraph, one can be left very disappointed in his words. Rex Patrick provides readers with a hard hitting paragraph-by-paragraph analysis that reveals a massive swindle.

Source: Marles Mauled: Rex Patrick demolishes Defence sophistry on AUKUS, submarines, nuclear – Michael West

ALP Government,

Why does the Australian Government fear dissent on AUKUS and Palestine? – Pearls and Irritations

Two businessmen pulling tug of war with a rope concept for business competition, rivalry, challenge or dispute.

Desperate to present a united front at the forthcoming Labor conference in Brisbane, the Albanese government looks to prevent delegates from voting on the merits of the AUKUS alliance and for recognition of Palestine as a state. On two crucial issues, dissent is feared. An opportunity for informed debate will be lost. Toeing a party line is the priority. On each issue, Australia’s identity as an independent, human rights-respecting country is at stake, so why fear debate?

Source: Why does the Australian Government fear dissent on AUKUS and Palestine? – Pearls and Irritations

Informed Comment

Fractures within the newly formed AUKUS ‘alliance’

Not everyone is on board with the terms of the AUKUS arrangement, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark.Not everyone is on board with the terms of the AUKUS arrangement, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark.

ANY SECURITY arrangement with too many variables and multiple contingencies, risks stuttering and keeling over.

Source: Fractures within the newly formed AUKUS ‘alliance’

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Australian Politics

AUKUS deal shows Australia’s subservience to U.S. dictates

There is great community opposition to the Labor Government’s embrace of AUKUS and its proposed spend of $368 billion on acquiring nuclear-powered submarines.

Source: AUKUS deal shows Australia’s subservience to U.S. dictates

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Good news on nukes: US can’t sell Australia nuclear subs – Pearls and Irritations

nuclear-powered attack submarine PCU Virginia (SSN 774)

Morrison didn’t only scam the French he scammed Australia and left us to cover it up. Now that’s what I call a STING

The chief of US Naval operations Admiral Michael Gilday was recently reported from Washington as saying the US shipyards are only producing subs at a rate of about 1.2 a year. He says a minimum of two a year is needed to fill the Navy’s own requirements. Until then, he said, “We’re not going to be in a position to sell any to the Australians”. A senior Biden advisor, Kurt Campbell added there was also “a troublingly large number of submarines in drydock that needed to be back into the water quickly”.

Source: Good news on nukes: US can’t sell Australia nuclear subs – Pearls and Irritations

ALP Government,

A subservient defence policy undermines Albanese’s successful first year – Pearls and Irritations

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

The first successful year of the Albanese Government has been seriously undermined by a subservient defence policy which effectively outsources Australian leadership and puts at risk a more independent foreign policy.

There is still an opportunity for the Prime Minister to reassure Australians that our growing concerns are acknowledged.

This will require our government to listen to the many voices that have the experience and understanding of international relations to reset the terms of the AUKUS agreement in accordance with Australia’s national interest and in harmony with our place in the Asia Pacific region.

Source: A subservient defence policy undermines Albanese’s successful first year – Pearls and Irritations

Australian Politics

Dreadnoughts and Virginias: why is Australia paying more than twice the price for submarines? – Michael West

Marco the French President got it right when he said he was double-crossed. It was all about the money and selling the soul of the nation. The ALP hasn’t changed the direction or in any way deflected the AUKUS scam. They are assisting the rampant profiteering of the Military-Industrial Complex at the expense of the French.

Paul Keating described the AUKUS submarines deal negotiated by the Albanese government as the “worst deal in all history”. Is he right, and if so, just how bad is it?

Source: Dreadnoughts and Virginias: why is Australia paying more than twice the price for submarines? – Michael West

Informed Comment

AUKUS submarines “nation building” says Admiral. No they’re not, says Rex Patrick – Michael West

AUKUS submarines

The Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Mark Hammond, has proclaimed the AUKUS submarine program is a national building endeavour when, in fact, it’s quite the opposite. Rex Patrick pulls apart the Admiral’s claim.

Source: AUKUS submarines “nation building” says Admiral. No they’re not, says Rex Patrick – Michael West

Informed Comment

Rex Patrick on AUKUS submarines: “an astonishingly bad deal” – Michael West

Rex Patrick on AUKUS submarines: “an astonishingly bad deal”

The Defence Department has outdone itself with the AUKUS submarine project. In Paul Keating’s words, “it’s the worst deal in all history”. That’s not just because of the staggering $386 billion price tag, but because of the form the program is to take. Former submariner Rex Patrick looks at the most astonishingly irrational part of the announcement.

Source: Rex Patrick on AUKUS submarines: “an astonishingly bad deal” – Michael West

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Submarines

AUKUS designed to remove public resistance to Australia stationing US nuclear submarines – Pearls and Irritations

President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speak at the AUKUS meeting in San Diego, March 13, 2023.

What is the Scam?

The real reason for the AUKUS submarine deal might well have been the U.S. wish for a port and base in Australia from where it can send its own nuclear submarines to harass China. The offer to Australia to buy nuclear submarines was likely only made to remove Australian public resistance to the stationing of nuclear submarines (with nuclear weapons) on the continent.

Source: AUKUS designed to remove public resistance to Australia stationing US nuclear submarines – Pearls and Irritations

Australia's Shame

The United States is in decline, with AUKUS, so too is Australia – Pearls and Irritations

AUKUS banner with USA, UK, Australia flag icons. American, British, Australian security alliance pact design.

That conclusion is even more relevant today than it was at the time. Unfortunately, the window of opportunity to escape from our potentially fatal embrace with the United States is closing. This self-inflicted tragedy in the waiting would see a grim future for Australia…..

The one glimmer of hope that remains is that the path we are on can be averted, and averted in short order requiring only two resources: leadership and moral courage.
All it would take is for the Prime Minister to publicly and forthrightly state that Australia will not participate in a war against China under any circumstances, other than as an act of self-defence in the improbable event that China was to attack Australia. This the Prime Minister could do tomorrow.

Source: The United States is in decline, with AUKUS, so too is Australia – Pearls and Irritations

Anti- Media

AUKUS: a collection of views not found in our Washington dominated media – Pearls and Irritations

President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Surnak and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the AUKUS bilateral meeting San Diego, Calif, March 13, 2023. (DoD photo by Chad J. McNeeley)

AUKUS: signed and sealed by the Liberal government when it joined the pact in September 2021, the spoils of which have been delivered by the Labor Government in March 2023. The Labor Government and Australia will pay a heavy price for what is being done in our name. We are being humiliated by our own government.

Source: AUKUS: a collection of views not found in our Washington dominated media – Pearls and Irritations

ALP Government,

The Federal Labor Caucus did not endorse AUKUS – Pearls and Irritations

AUKUS banner with USA, UK, Australia flag icons. American, British, Australian security alliance pact design.

The Federal Labor Caucus did not endorse the deal – it simply noted it.

Source: The Federal Labor Caucus did not endorse AUKUS – Pearls and Irritations

Informed Comment

Guardian Essential Poll: AUKUS support collapses, 3-in-4 oppose – Pearls and Irritations

Ammunition shell with a yellow flower of peace resting on a dusty dirty background.

Reflecting the diminishing public support for the AUKUS deal, a new Guardian Essential Poll has found that only one quarter of Australians support paying the $368bn price tag to acquire nuclear submarines. For decades Australians were gung ho about going to war – almost any war. Today – despite the best efforts of the Nine Media (Peter Hartcher in particular) and other media – they are now far more hesitant.

Source: Guardian Essential Poll: AUKUS support collapses, 3-in-4 oppose – Pearls and Irritations

Informed Opinion

The U.S. and UK’s Submarine Deal Crosses Nuclear Red Lines with Australia – CounterPunch.org

Why, if naval security was its objective, did Australia choose an iffy nuclear submarine agreement with the U.S. over a sure-shot supply of French submarines? This is a question that Malcolm Turnbull and Paul Keating, the Australian Labor Party’s former PMs, asked. It makes sense only if we understand that Australia now sees itself as a cog in the U.S. wheel for this region. And it is a vision of U.S. naval power projection in the region that today Australia shares. The vision is that settler colonial and ex-colonial powers—the G7-AUKUS—should be the ones making the rules of the current international order. And behind the talk of international order is the mailed fist of the U.S., NATO, and AUKUS. This is what Australia’s nuclear submarine deal really means.

Source: The U.S. and UK’s Submarine Deal Crosses Nuclear Red Lines with Australia – CounterPunch.org

Informed Comment

Australia’s submarine deal is a disaster and we know who to blame

The current AUKUS submarine contract reflects a profoundly tragic lost opportunity, as Alan Austin reports.

Source: Australia’s submarine deal is a disaster and we know who to blame

ALP Government,

Paul Keating said mean things about me and my stupid newspaper and now I have hurt feelings | The Shot

His words were good too, though. Keating tore the concept of AUKUS – an alliance between two fading empires and their enthusiastic vassal state – to shreds, explicitly shaming Albanese’s barely beating lefty heart for selling off Australian sovereignty to the Yanks and Poms, paying an absurd amount of money for the privilege, and receiving a small quantity of chunky underwater boats and an endless quantity of nuclear waste in return. Art of the deal, baby!

Source: Paul Keating said mean things about me and my stupid newspaper and now I have hurt feelings | The Shot

ALP Government,

AUKUS casts shadow on Australia-China trade relations – Michael West

Australia’s landmark nuclear submarines deal has sparked an angry reaction from China, but the federal government remains hopeful the countries’ trade relationship will not be affected.

Source: AUKUS casts shadow on Australia-China trade relations – Michael West

ALP Government,

Albo admits he got talked into buying extras package on new subs | The Shovel

The PM says the base price for eight new submarines was $16 billion but ballooned to $386 billion after he added on heated leather seats, roof-racks, sports styling, Parking Assist and a range of other dealer extras.

Source: Albo admits he got talked into buying extras package on new subs | The Shovel

Submarines

Paul Keating has ‘diminished’ himself with scathing attack on Aukus submarine deal, Albanese says | Aukus | The Guardian

Paul Keating

Malcolm Turnbull has also questioned deal amid UK economy’s ‘existential problems’

Source: Paul Keating has ‘diminished’ himself with scathing attack on Aukus submarine deal, Albanese says | Aukus | The Guardian

Informed Comment

Paul Keating excoriates AUKUS as exercise in security policy stupidity – Pearls and Irritations

Screenshot- a conversation with Paul Keating

There are few who think as clearly, who are as articulate, and who are prepared to speak out in the face of incredible stupidity in Australian politics as Paul Keating. And, as he made clear in his address to the press club this week, AUKUS is nothing if not an exercise in security policy stupidity.

Source: Paul Keating excoriates AUKUS as exercise in security policy stupidity – Pearls and Irritations

Uncategorized

Australia to spend $1.3b on missiles in new AUKUS deal – Michael West

The American and British arms dealers are laughing all the way to the bank.

Australia is set to acquire hundreds of Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States as part of the AUKUS security pact.

Source: Australia to spend $1.3b on missiles in new AUKUS deal – Michael West

Uncategorized

Australian economy first casualty of AUKUS pact

The AUKUS pact is a waste of spending that could go towards more needed areas such as medicine, housing and the environment, writes Dr William Briggs.

Source: Australian economy first casualty of AUKUS pact

Submarines

US, UK, Australia Unveil AUKUS Nuclear-Powered Submarine Deal – scheerpost.com

What Albanese calls “a partnership”

The US has big plans for Australia in its preparations for a future war with China. US Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro recently said that he envisions AUKUS will turn the country into a full-service submarine hub that can oversee all allied underwater activity in the Asia-Pacific. Naturally, China views AUKUS as a major provocation as the submarines will be used to patrol waters near its shores.

Source: US, UK, Australia Unveil AUKUS Nuclear-Powered Submarine Deal – scheerpost.com

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Expert blasts AUKUS upside for America and Britain

A defence expert says a costly new AUKUS nuclear submarine deal directly benefits British and American governments while Australia takes the main strategic risk, as Anthony Albanese seeks to minimise the diplomatic fallout from the historic announcement.

Source: Expert blasts AUKUS upside for America and Britain

Submarines

Who will keep our submarine reactors safe? – Michael West

Who will keep our submarine reactors safe?

Whether it’s a good idea or not, the decision has been made. We will be acquiring nuclear submarines. An important question follows; who will be responsible for keeping the reactors safe? Rex Patrick examines the issue after new information was released by Government under FOI.

Source: Who will keep our submarine reactors safe? – Michael West

Australia

AUKUS and B-52’s stand in the way of a treaty with Indonesia – Michael West

Two plus two meeting in Indonesia

A recent meeting of ministers generated a swag of the usual cliched statements, but also some hope of strengthening our relationship with our closest neighbour. But there are obstacles on both sides of the Timor Sea, reports Duncan Graham from Indonesia.

Source: AUKUS and B-52’s stand in the way of a treaty with Indonesia – Michael West

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ALP Government,

Malcolm Turnbull says Labor has failed to answer if Aukus deal compromises Australian sovereignty | Aukus | The Guardian

Malcolm Turnbull

Former PM says if operation of nuclear subs depends on US then that is ‘a momentous change which has not been acknowledged’

Source: Malcolm Turnbull says Labor has failed to answer if Aukus deal compromises Australian sovereignty | Aukus | The Guardian