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[TJ Brown @101jafo]

@larianstudios That was better than I was expecting
He did well....bless his adorable heart 😊

[TJ Brown @101jafo]

@larianstudios Sending love and the relief of a cool change in the weather 🌧️💕

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

The fact that such similar far rightwing parties are rising around the Western world at precisely the same time, suggests a level of coordination by foreign hands. https://t.co/3mD8O8h43L

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Appalled but not surprised to see govt caving to the gas companies.

This just makes me more determined to go harder on our campaign to get a fair return on our gas through a 25% tax on gas export revenue.

Head to https://t.co/dcjuwV2f9S to add your voice.

https://t.co/j91tDxcfCT

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Here’s a story mainstream media seem to have missed.

@ABCnews @6NewsAU @SBSNews

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

More #AUKUS propaganda from former naval officer Jennifer Parker!

Parker is correct that the US’s Columbia ballistic missiles sub program being priority 1 is not news, but in her usual ‘defence strategy divorced from ship delivery reality’ dismisses the real danger to our national security that the current circumstances in the US present.

The US wants 66 fast attack subs. They only have 48 (the number went down from 49 last week after the US gave up on the shipyard that was refitting USS Boise, announcing the sub will be decommissioned). Since 2011 the US Navy has been ordering 2 new subs per annum, but their shipyards are only delivering 1.1. They can’t get to 2 … but need to get to 2.3 to be able to deliver subs to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

Under US law, subs cannot be transferred to the RAN if doing so would degrade US undersea capabilities. This was the genesis of Defense Under Secretary Elbridge Colby’s review into AUKUS - a review that was going to recommend canning the sub deal until Trump (who will not be US President when the subs are due to be transferred) intervened - recognising the Australian money pumped into US shipyards is a beautiful thing, particularly in the absence of a contract for delivery.

Sitting in front of fixing the fast attack sub program is the troubled Columbia ballistic missile sub program. Parker fails to (or simply doesn’t want to) appreciate the impact of the ‘priority’ circumstances. The troubled Columbia sub building program fixes sit ahead of the problem laden Virginia sub building program fixes.

None of this seems to matter to Parker, who engages in fantasy strategy when it comes to AUKUS. She has complete faith in a hierarchy inside Defence that announced in 2009 it was procuring 12 new subs, but is now having to spend $11B to extend the life of our Collins Class because the organisation has failed to come up with a replacement in that time. Well, to be fair, they did actually spend $4 billion not getting French subs 🤦‍♂️.

Parker has no experience in naval shipbuilding (I experienced the Collins sub build program first hand, was a project manager feeding sonar systems into the German Type 214 sub building program - doing sea trials on those subs - and also worked briefly inside the US sub program - also doing sea trials on USS Santa Fe). She does not understand project management risk. She fills her void of knowledge in this discipline with enthusiasm and hope.

AUKUS is dangerous; dangerous to national security, dangerous to the budget and dangerous to our submariners who might be asked to venture into combat with aging and unreliable Collins Class subs.

Even if this were all to go well, which it won’t, the opportunity cost of AUKUS is just too high. There is so much more we could do with $368 billion. #auspol

[TJ Brown @101jafo]

@PicturesFoIder @MedeaHecate

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

@Mark_Burns_1N @TracyWesterman You're a party full of rapists, sexual abusers and con artists, led by a woman who flies around with billionaires on private planes while you half-witted schmucks on the ground do her dirty work for her

None of you even understand how to form government

https://t.co/aLSuir5ABq

[TJ Brown @101jafo]

@turkishbilla @Amockx2022 @TranslateMom English

[TJ Brown @101jafo]

@mattjcan Fucking moron

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

Congress is meant to be a check on the President.

For 15 months, Congress has been nowhere to be found.

History books will be written about one of the weakest Congress' in American history.

[Troy Stolz @TroyStolz]

Remember me? I am in jail for blowing the whistle on war crimes. I think it's time to let me out!!

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

IMPEACH AND REMOVE TRUMP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE @johnthune @MikeJohnson @SenSchumer @RepJeffries

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Iranian people are fiercely desperate to embarrass the US into not bombing them.

👉 Look at these people bravely putting their lives on the line — by forming human chains around vital infrastructure.

In their thousands they are making a final effort to try to prevent a murderous escalation of the illegal US war.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Iran has now responded to the USA existential threat — declaring how extensively it will retaliate beyond the Gulf region if US conducts a civilisational attack.

▪️The unprovoked illegal deadly US attacks on Iran have led to the Iranians, in trying to save their country, threatening a defensive escalation in the hope it will induce the US to back down.

▪️For USA & Israel, they would no doubt now be considering the nuclear war option.

▪️If this happens the world will never be the same — millions will die, and revenge will last for decades.

▪️Now is the time that US’s allies need to threaten to end the alliances to pressure the US to step back.

@ICAN_australia
@NuclearBan
@IPAusNet
@WagePeaceAU
@BaseWatchAU
@OzAntiBases
@MAPW_Australia @WarPowersReform @DeclassifiedAus

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

How are eighty million people calling for the 25th amendment but Congress is still at Disneyland?

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

@thaussiimmi If we cancel AUKUS, we will not get US submarines. If we don’t cancel AUKUS, we will not get US submarines.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Is it time Australia pulled the plug on Pine Gap?

👉We now have “full knowledge” of USA threatening complete civilisational destruction of Iran—an abhorrent war crime.

👉We can withdraw our “full compliance” with the intended action of USA.

Australians don’t support this war.

[Robert Barwick @RobbieBarwick]

Memo to Australian media:

It is not "the president".

It is "the US president".

He's not our president. He's not the president of the world. He's the president of one country. Other countries have their own presidents.

Alternatively, you could say "the shithead president".

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Pauline's gonna bring a prosthetic leg into parliament and drink out of it in protest