{"id":1034,"date":"2021-10-11T07:24:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unifiji.ac.fj\/sost\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2021-10-11T07:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:24:21","slug":"aukus-and-australias-folly-the-nuclear-submarine-deal-and-its-inherent-and-present-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unifiji.ac.fj\/sost\/aukus-and-australias-folly-the-nuclear-submarine-deal-and-its-inherent-and-present-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"AUKUS and Australia\u2019s folly: The nuclear submarine deal, and its inherent and present danger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The recent announcement of a military alliance between Australia, the UK and the US, termed AUKUS, by a politically partisan federal government with a single-seat majority in parliament, portends a vexed future for Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It will place Australia in danger of war and\/or nuclear accident, as well as subordinate its vital interests to the US for decades to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This state of affairs is epitomised by the likely implications of the triumphant announcement that Australia will build nuclear submarines on a US patent under the direction of British weapons manufacturers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The alternative of establishing an independent defence apparatus and foreign policy would represent a much better guarantee of Australia\u2019s future.<\/p>\n