@bikemad and
@Scott th Ratbag; you're spoton!
I'm singing from the same hymn sheet as Paul Keating on this one; AUKUS is the worst deal Australia has ever signed up to and done without first consulting the Australian People. The underlying assumptions are WRONG and represent violations of Australia's core values.
AUKUS commits younger Australians to paying the largest $Debt in our history - for the next thirty years! It's a financial DISASTER who real purpose is helping the USA and the UK with their $Debt.
AUKUS enables the USA to exercise mission control of Australia's defence forces - almost certainly meaning they'll send 'Australian' boats into Chinese waters just to irritate the Chinese. That's counter to Australia's trade relationship with China.
And it delivers next to nothing to Defence for at least a decade - even then only a second-hand, half-clapped out and obsolete Virginia class submarine.
As if that's not enough, then there's issues including nuclear waste management, emergency responses when those nuclear subs break down just like so many of our navy boats, choppers and fighter planes.
Every politician who has supported AUKUS needs to front the Australian People to explain Y!
