Midnight Oil’s Peter Garrett stepped away from recording to tweet that AUKUS stinks. Albanese, meanwhile, said Keating’s jibes did nothing “other than diminish him”.
over the next 30 years was a worthwhile investment to enhance Australia’s national security in a volatile era.that Australia was ceding sovereign control over its defence capabilities, pointing out the nation purchased military hardware including the F-35 joint strike fighter from overseas.Wong also hit back at the Labor luminary, saying Australia could not “wish away” China’s rapid military build-up under Xi over recent years.“We don’t face the region of 30 years ago.
“It’s hard to fathom Keating’s contention that jointly developing a nuclear submarine with Britain and America is somehow a loss of sovereignty when developing a conventional one with the French was not,” Abbott writes.better to acquire nuclear-powered submarines from France “Our members in Port Kembla [the mooted home of an east cost submarine base] don’t want a base, no one down there will cop a base.”
“AUKUS undermines Australian sovereignty and our relations with our Asia-Pacific neighbours. Australia should also abandon plans for a nuclear submarine fleet,” the motion read, in part.
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