Calls Mounting for Australia’s $328 Billion Nuclear Submarine Deal to Be Scrapped
The report says Australia could lose billions and still miss the promised submarines, while urging a royal commission and an audit of AUKUS costs.
- On Wednesday, the Public Inquiry into AUKUS released its report, Surrendering Australia: The AUKUS Deception, calling for immediate termination of the $368 billion nuclear-powered submarine program.
- Lead Commissioner Peter Garrett told the National Press Club that AUKUS is the "worst, riskiest and most costly defence decision ever made," accusing successive governments of concealing true costs.
- Among 16 sweeping recommendations, the inquiry calls for immediate termination of AUKUS Pillar I and an urgent independent audit of costs by the Australian National Audit Office.
- Analysis by the NSW Cabinet Office found a nuclear submarine base at Newcastle would reduce residential property values by about $1 billion and compete for limited tradespeople.
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Calls mounting for Australia’s $328 billion nuclear submarine deal to be scrapped
Calls are mounting for Australia’s $328 billion nuclear submarine deal to be scrapped – as a public inquiry has published its own report into AUKUS. Those behind the probe argue transparency is key – with Newcastle under consideration as a potential base.
Australia needs serious discussion on AUKUS. This inquiry didn’t deliver it
In March 2023, Midnight Oil frontman and former Labor minister Peter Garrett wrote in an article titled “AUKUS stinks, and that’s an understatement”: Scott Morrison’s decision to build nuclear submarines in partnership with northern hemisphere former imperial powers was the most costly and risky action ever taken by any Australian government and should not have been allowed to stand. It’s little wonder, then, that a Garrett-led community inquir…
'Worst, riskiest and most costly': Independent inquiry urges Australian government to terminate AUKUS pact
An independent inquiry has called for the Australian government to immediately terminate the AUKUS submarine treaty with the United Kingdom and the United States, describing the pact as the riskiest defense decision in national history.
Australia has contributed more than A$ 4 billion to support US and British shipbuilding without any obligation to transfer it to nuclear submarines under the AUKUS Partnership. The Australian Peace and Security Forum, with the support of trade unions, has conducted a public inquiry and found that Canberra has not received a guarantee of supply of submarines from allies, has transferred RIA News. "Australia has not been given any assurances of su…
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