The Labor government has stamped its authority over rank-and-file members who wanted nuclear submarines stripped from the party's policy platform.
Some delegates pushed to strip mention of the AUKUS agreement.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has won an important fight against internal dissidents seeking to strip references to nuclear-powered submarines from Labor's policy platform.
Albanese said he had come to the position that nuclear submarines were what Australia needed to protect national security. Federal Labor MP Josh Wilson voiced his concerns, saying it was wrong to dismiss questioning of national security. "Labor has a history of applying scrutiny and critical judgment to military and defence matters in the national interest when too few are prepared to do the same," he said."We must continue to bring that kind of ... difficult debate to these matters, which more than some other topics, frankly, require greater scrutiny rather than less."
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