Letter

In response to Marles’ Defence overhaul raises an awkward question: why AUKUS at all?

None of our business

This is an excellent explanation that AUKUS is not only a vast waste of taxpayers’ money, but also that it it will produce nothing for Australia except the bitterness of our major trading partner and the world’s emerging hegemon. That the subs involved might be used to advance the American continued desire to interfere in purely internal Chinese matters is an added and powerful reason to exit from it!

— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041