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AUKUS

Nuked: The submarine fiasco that sank Australia’s sovereignty by Andrew Fowler

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August 2024, no. 467
Marilyn Lake reviews ‘Nuked: The submarine fiasco that sank Australia’s sovereignty’ by Andrew Fowler

Nuked – a compelling but depressing read – is a deeply researched and strangely suspenseful account of the AUKUS agreement struck between Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and United States President Jo Biden and announced in September 2021; a deal that included supplying Australia with a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines at the staggering cost of $368 billion. Nuked should be compulsory reading for all Australian citizens.

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Letters to the Editor - July 2024

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July 2024, no. 466

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Statehood à la carte

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July 2023, no. 455
Jack Corbett on sovereignty games in the Pacific Islands

In 22 May 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Papua New Guinea (PNG) Defence Minister Win Bakri Daki signed a defence and maritime cooperation agreement in Port Moresby. Blinken stepped in after US President Joe Biden’s last-minute cancellation. Had he attended, it would reportedly have been the first time a US president had visited a Pacific Island country other than US territories such as Hawaii and Guam. This is on the back of having pledged an additional US$800 million at a US-Pacific Summit in late 2022 to help tackle climate change, overfishing, and maritime security.

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James Curran on Labor's foreign policy manoeuvres

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The ABR Podcast
Penny Wong and Sitiveni Rabuka (photograph by DFAT/Sarah Hodges)

In this week’s ABR podcast, James Curran considers the response of Asia-Pacific nations to the government’s decision to retain AUKUS, the major foreign affairs initiative of the Morrison government. In seeking to shape this response, Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s message is necessarily complex, argues Curran.

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