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Thank Dawkins for Doug Cameron. I love that man (I shook his hand once and didn't wash it for a week). He's leading a Labor rank and file push to dump AUKUS. 
#AusPol
This is the bit about AUKUS nobody talks about.
Phase one sees US nuclear powered and nuclear armed subs based in Australia. Partially crewed and supported by Australia but under US command.
The US nuclear armed subs get a strategic base on the Indian Ocean rim, which we pay to build and run, and we also pay the US on top of that to do it. It was meant to be a stop-gap until we got our own boats, but a deal this bad for Australia incentivises Trump to not supply them. And we even gave them a clause that lets them do that.
This is the worst deal in the history of deals. It's all sunk costs. Get out now and ask the French if we can restart the original deal as a co-project with Canada. #Aukus #Trump #Canada #Auspol
US starts to build submarine presence on strategic Australian coast under AUKUS - CNA
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/us-starts-build-submarine-presence-strategic-australian-coast-under-aukus-5004096
CNAUS starts to build submarine presence on strategic Australian coast under AUKUSPERTH: In the control room of the American Virginia class attack submarine USS Minnesota, off the Western Australian coast, sonar operators adjust to the chatter of dolphins in new waters where the US submarine presence will soon grow significantly. On a training exercise from its home port in Guam, USS Mi
Great cartoon by Megan Herbert in the Age today... a very plausible wedding present list for the PM.
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Flashback: In 2021, Australia's then conservative government backstabbed the French to trash a multi-billion deal for high-grade submarines all to suck up to the United States for the privilege of paying for their nuclear submarine bases on our soil.
The 'deal,' known as AUKUS, involves Australia handing over hundreds of billions of dollars for Virginia Class Submarines which, most agree, will never be delivered and which the current US leader can not even name.
In February, Australia handed over a cheque for $800 million as part of the arrangement.
All for technology that was obsolete twenty years ago and, even if delivered, will get murdered by the first wave of hostile submersible drone swarms it encounters.
The Conversation‘I don’t think, I know’ – what makes Macron’s comments about Morrison so extraordinary and so worryingFrench President Emmanuel Macron has called Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison a liar on the world stage.
Frank and fascinating appraisal of the history of free trade agreements between Australia and the US and China
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-16/verrender-us-free-trade-analysis/105053766 #auspol
ABC News · How America ripped off Australia with 'free trade'
Peter #Dutton’s response to climate change is to make insurance more affordable so people can recover from natural disasters better.
Put the LNP last.
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Indeed. State Premier facing an election. (Kind of like a state governor, but not really.)
Won in a landslide.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-04/wa-premier-roger-cook-calls-us-vp-jd-vance-a-knob-/105007706
ABC News · Roger Cook apologises for calling US Vice-President JD Vance a 'knob'
Australia's Prime Minister has had a single phone call with Trump, while its ambassador to the US, a former Prime Minister, is on the record calling the US leader a 'traitor', 'destructive' and 'village idiot'.
Australia is pushing on with backing Ukraine, offering up continued financial support and peacekeepers should a ceasefire eventuate, but has so far done nothing in response to tariffs.
The Australian people are pissed and embarking on their own boycotts, particularly incensed by the United State's treatment of Canada for who they hold great sympathy and friendship and in which they see a blueprint for their own treatment. Something's brewing and the status quo will not hold. When the 'relationship' breaks, it's going to break hard.
On a train so didn't get to see #TheSundayShot or #Insiders this morning, a bit of catching up to do when I get home
'One of the worst aspects of our 2005 free trade deal with America was on copyright, which extended the rights of American Intellectual Property to 70 years.
But even that paled into insignificance when it came to concessions over patents on medicines.'
ABC News · How America ripped off Australia with 'free trade'
The #Nuclear red herring in the Coalitions dishonest campaign #AusPol
The end of coal and the fake nuclear energy 'red herring'
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/environment/2025/03/15/end-coal-nuclear
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If the US govt goes after Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in early April, as the current timetable suggests, it will impact the country's May federal election.
PBS touches everyone, delivering affordable medicines across a vast array of common illnesses and conditions and some not so common. Australia's conservative Coalition parties will scramble to defend the move and may even give up, having made use of the PBS themselves in the past to campaign on.
In such a super-charged political environment, the one group that will not escape attack from nearly all sectors is the Trump administration itself. If the US does go after the PBS, it will bring Australia into the trade wars, seething. Nothing will be safe or off limits. Tariffs, trade, treaties, AUKUS. This little marsupial mouse will roar.
Major trade battle looming between Australia and the United States with potential to severely damage, if not destroy, the relationship.
Trump administration reportedly has sights set on the country's vaunted Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme that delivers affordable medicines to tens of millions of Australians.
This is a very very very useful website. Aussies ! Check your MPs track record. What they voted consistently for and consistently against (scroll down)
Oh... And please don't vote LNP OR Trumpets - just my opinion 
Please boost so Aussies can inform themselves 
https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/dickson/peter_dutton
They Vote For YouFind out how Peter Dutton votes on issues that matter to youDiscover how Liberal Party Representative for Dickson Peter Dutton votes in the Australian Parliament
'And then ... and then they said they're gonna target the Cybertruck at Australia!
'How we laughed.'
Chasing Cars · Exclusive: Tesla Cybertruck firms for Australian release to fill a “real gap in the market”Nearly three years after Tesla ceased accepting Cybertruck deposits in Australia, the US-based manufacturer is undertaking extensive internal preparations Two more Cybertruck demonstrators have landed as Tesla Australia head tells Chasing Cars of the brand’s ambition to beat electrified ute rivals
Please try to meddle in our election, Space Karen. Give us a chance to out pissed off the Germans.
(Great jobs, Germans.)
https://electrek.co/2025/03/14/tesla-is-done-in-germany-94-say-they-wont-buy-a-tesla-car/
Electrek · Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won’t buy a Tesla car