This week, the USA has announced a review into AUKUS. Though some have suggested Trump will scrap the agreement, it is likely that the review will demand even more money from Australian taxpayers be used to subsidise the American war machine. Trump’s administration has already demanded Australia increase defence spending in order to contribute to a future US war with China. This war alliance, whether it is named AUKUS or something else, must be rejected.
As the South Coast Labour Council says in their recent statement: “We demand that our local members of parliament and the Government they are part of immediately rule out Port Kembla as a nuclear submarine base or military facility and this dangerous farce called AUKUS be buried once and for all.”