This looks like the best explanation for Labor's abandonment of the ICC.
What a deal. We not only sell out international law and endorse genocide but we get to pay $798 million into the bargain.
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Trump administration says it will uphold AUKUS submarine deal
Defence Minister Richard Marles has become the first foreign counterpart to be hosted by the new US Secretary of Defence under the Trump administration.SBS News
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in reply to John Quiggin • •I'd say cancel the submarine deal, up the rent at Pine Gap and contact the French about #submarines if we really need them.
One thing I never understood is why we had a deal originally for conventional diesel/electric submarines with a French company that designs exclusively nuclear submarines. It never made sense to me.
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