AUKUS commits us to the US’ battle with China, whereas the submarine deal drains our capability to construct a greater society.
Properly, the rousing songs have been sung, there was a stomping, thrilling Welcome to Nation, and we hear that somebody from the NSW proper left their Crumpler satchel behind the desk of the Grosvenor gents’s membership within the Valley…
The Brisbane nationwide convention of the mighty Australian Labor Celebration has concluded. And we at the moment are in a really totally different nation from the one we had been when the lanyards — rainbow? Dot portray? Each? — had been being handed out.
With just a few skirmishes and objections, simply batted away, within the metropolis that hosted Basic Douglas MacArthur’s Pacific WWII Pacific management, Labor has put its full power behind the AUKUS alliance and the $368 billion program of submarine and requisites shopping for and constructing, meant to happen over a long time. Delegates had been greeted with a 1300-word “modification” to be voted into this system — actually a take-it-or-leave-it manifesto for the wholesale reorientation of the get together, the labour motion and the nation.
Learn extra from Man Rundle on Labor’s ‘most AUKUS’ agenda.
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