Two days after @albomp.bsky.social gifted $800M of our money to pay for US shipyard investment and jobs, the Labor Govt has refused to disclose #AUKUS cost sharing arrangements. But I guess we know what sort of deal Richard Marles got. Pity poor taxpayers. #FOI appeal lodged! #368B #auspol
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Menadue claims the US will not have subs available; the French have a better nuclear option but of course Scomo destroyed that option & blew even more of taxpayer $$ 🤬
“Australia’s nuclear regulator has approved a license to store waste from US, UK and possibly Australian nuclear submarines at HMAS Stirling, Perth. The licence allows the Australian Submarine Agency to establish a ‘Controlled Industrial Facility’...” https://asiapacificdefencereporter.com/radioactive-waste-storage-licence-granted-despite-opposition/
The ANZUS treaty should be torn up.
Commitments from the other two is only to provide access.
We're paying for it, but not allowed to know what for or how much!
Exorbitant, unexplained & unjustified.
Commits Australia to
1.Australian bases for UK & USA nuclear submarines
2.Being part of USA confrontation with China
3.Being a repository for high level nuclear waste requiring security/storage >100,000 yrs
Fucking charlatan.
He really has no idea of the billions we send, and commit to sending for jets that don’t work and submarines that don’t exist…
I may have misunderstood your comment, but buying from the US is very different than aid sent to the US. I believe he was implying that freely giving money to other countries is a one way street for the US. Unless I am mistaken, I believe no countries give foreign aid to the United States.
At an unspecified time in the future, we’ve agreed to purchase some submarine tech, that will be built, in part, in Australia.
We’re giving, literally on a pinky promise.
That is handshake business, even if based in the future. The US gets zero incoming foreign aid.
It is literally a one way street.
ROI on foreign aid is massive. Generating stability & economic growth provides around 300-400% return for Australia.