Australia first cannot co-exist with “America first”.
The US and the UK are reviewing AUKUS
There is another way and the US has offered Albanese the cover he needs to take it. Australia is the only partner to not be reviewing AUKUS. On Friday, crossbench MPs strengthened their calls for the government to launch a review of the agreement.If we ever see a Submarine, it will be redundant tech.
Albanese should do what's right and review and hopefully cancel this military industrial complex boondoggle
The test for Albanese is not whether he can appease Trump. It’s whether he can, as he often claims, actually put Australia’s interests first. Whether he is brave enough to take back Australia’s foreign and security policy from vested interests and have an honest, and accountable, conversation with the nation he leads. Not in secret, and in haste, which is how AUKUS was conceived, but openly, acknowledging that in the short time since the AUKUS deal was signed, the world – and our major security partner, has fundamentally changed.
America will always look out for America. It’s time for Australia to do the same.
After all that would be what actual “progressive patriotism” should be about: Soberly standing up for Australia’s national interests on the world stage while avoiding dividing and scapegoating communities at home.
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025/06/14/america-first-australia-labor
