Dump AUKUS

September 8, 2025

If you are not convinced that the Australian government must dump AUKUS by

• The fact that the primary utility of the proposed AUKUS submarines is to augment a US attack force aimed at China, our major trading partner;

• The obvious ceding of sovereignty to the US empire that this entails;

• The questionable logic of acquiring a submarine fleet unsuitable for coastal defence of Australia;

• The certainty that the $368 billion budget will blow out, as illustrated by the fact that Australia has already paid a $5 billion instalment of a $47.8 Billion commitment to the US to shore up its ship-building capacity which is not a payment on account for the purchase of the submarines but an additional payment; and

• The unreliability of the US demonstrated by its flagrant breach of the Australia/US free trade agreement by the US imposition of tariffs and the Australian Government’s impotent response; then

Surely you must be convinced by Peter Briggs’ two-part article which lead to the conclusion that the deal will not be honoured,