Interesting that you turn anti-AUKUS into anti-US.
The two are not the same. Not by a long shot.
AUKUS was a bad deal for Australia, made worse as time has gone on. It needs to go, even though the dismantling of it will cost us. We should have honoured our agreement with the French.
It's inclusion in the Defense budget is a furphy. Dismantle it, and the Defense budget will lose a white elephant it no longer needs to pay for; nothing else will suffer. Plus, we stop involvement of money and personnel in a technology we have no other use for.
In the meantime, Australia will regain hundreds of millions of dollars over the next decade that can be put toward greater needs, both humanitarian and in defense.
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Peter
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2026-08-20 06:41:40 UTC
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