AUKUS: a collection of views not found in our Washington dominated media
Apr 1, 2023
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.
The AUKUS alliance has forever changed Australia’s sovereignty. Foreign policy and diplomacy has been pushed aside by military policy.
US Admirals and Generals regularly visit to pull us into line. Our media hang on their every word.
Our Department of Defence employs US Admirals to ‘advise’ on submarines to attack China. It should be renamed the Department of Attack .
For the first time we will be engaging in the development and ownership of nuclear powered submarines. And for what purpose? Not for our own safety, prosperity or gain. The China threat is manufactured by a failing hegemon, aided by our own media desperate to contain a time stamped world order.
China is not a military threat to Australia or the US.
The hysteria over China has given rise to a new age of McCarthyism displayed in the unforgivable sham of a Red Alert by our own media. Albanese, Wong and Marles said not a word in criticism.
And if this isn’t enough, the eye-watering budget could well have been put to use to tackle our real threat, climate change. The plight of our poor is ignored.
We have been struggling for decades to build bridges to our region. But instead of building bridges we have now become a spear carrier in the region for the US. With AUKUS we are retreating to the Anglosphere.
AUKUS is not about defending Australia. It is about aiding the US in its panic over the economic challenge of China. We have fallen in the US trap. Acting as a proxy for the violent and aggressive US, we have greatly increased our own risks.
There is something seriously wrong when a Labor Government finds its key supporters on AUKUS are the Murdoch Media (Greg Sheridan), the Nine Media Group, Peter Dutton, Andrew Hastie and the United States Studies Centre in Sydney.
Arthur Calwell on Vietnam and Simon Crean on Iraq showed leadership and courage. But Anthony Albanese…!
Our series of articles by some of Australia’s best analysts are collated into an AUKUS collection here, to share a view of the many challenges AUKUS creates for our government, sovereignty and to the Australian people. More articles will be posted as the debacle unfolds.
Paul Keating
Paul Keating – Australia locks in Asian Century as subordinate to the US
Mike Gilligan
Keating exposes ministerial incompetence in Albanese Government
Brian Toohey
Nuclear safety agency silent on disposal of AUKUS radioactive waste
Mike Scrafton
Geoff Miller
Mack Williams
Jack Waterford
Caitlin Johnstone
On war with China, Australia Is caught between a rock and a Pentagon
Wanning Sun and Minran Liu
Red Alert: news media ‘Sleep-Walking’ into US war propaganda
John Menadue and Aran Martin
Richard Heggie
Greg Bailey
“China threat” a distraction from climate change, economic inequity
Marilyn Lake
Allan Patience
Paul Keating excoriates AUKUS as exercise in security policy stupidity
Tim Dunlop
David Armstrong
Percy Allan
Henry Reynolds
John Lander
Roger Bradbury, Anne-Marie Grisogono, Elizabeth Williams and Scott Vella
“Billion-dollar coffins”: detection tech to render AUKUS submarines useless
William Briggs
Allan Behm
AUKUS: Submarines on the never never, or castles in the sky?
Alex Lo
Diplomacy in Beijing, war pact in San Diego – who’s the belligerent?
Sue Wareham
Tony Smith
Two decades on, history should condemn the real ‘butchers of Baghdad’
Alison Broinowski
Here we stand: Twenty years after our first war of aggression
Jack Waterford
Caitlin Johnstone
Empire-funded think tanks are not valid sources: notes from The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
John Jiggens
Dennis Argall
To justify nuclear submarines as protecting trade routes is nonsense
Mack Williams
Scott Burchill
Allan Patience
Noel Turnbull
Guardian Essential Poll: AUKUS support collapses, 3-in-4 oppose
Melissa Parke
Kim Carr
Richard Tanter
Geoff Raby
China’s big foreign policy plays leave Australia in the cold
Ainslie Barton
David Armstrong
Alison Broinowski
Mary Kostakidis
Alex Lo
Daryl Guppy
Barry Jones
Judy Hemming
American Fascism: A prior question to the AUKUS arrangements
Adam Hughes Henry
David Legge
Bronwyn Kelly
Max Hayton
Maddison Connaughton
Marianne Hanson
John Menadue is the Founder and Editor in Chief of Pearls and Irritations. He was formerly Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet under Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser, Ambassador to Japan, Secretary of the Department of Immigration and CEO of Qantas.
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