Sign the Petition:
Cancel the AUKUS agreement immediately
Sign the Petition:
Cancel the AUKUS agreement immediately
Sign the petition: Australia should never have joined AUKUS; Trump’s tariffs are the latest good reason to cancel it
For too long, Australia has been subservient to two foreign powers: the United Kingdom and the United States. The late former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser called them our “Dangerous Allies” in his 2014 book by that name. He said Australia has never been an independent nation, and our relationship with our dangerous allies the UK and USA has dragged us into wars that have damaged our nation.
In recent decades the United States has become the dominant ally, and our relationship has become even more subservient. Aside from supporting its forever wars, we have allowed the USA to establish a military presence in Australia that is unprecedented in peacetime: a base for US Marines in Darwin, a base for “nuclear-capable” B52 bombers in Darwin, to station B2 nuclear capable stealth bombers in Brisbane, and to station nuclear submarines in Perth. That’s on top of Pine Gap in the Northern Territory, which provides the technical guidance for US and allied bombing deployments, and therefore implicates Australia in every war and war crime America and its allies commit, including: drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen that killed hundreds of civilians; the war in Afghanistan and regime-change wars in Libya and Syria; the use of US missiles against Russia; and Israel’s scorched-earth bombing of Gaza.
The United States also dominates our financial system, as the biggest foreign investor in Australia, including as the majority owner of “Australia’s” Big Four banks, which have damaged our economy immensely through predatory lending and withdrawing branch services.
The Australians who argue in favour of having this kind of relationship with the United States claim we need it for protection, but protection from whom? The assumption that Asian countries somehow want to invade Australia is ludicrous. They are perfectly happy to trade with us for the resources they need, which is much cheaper than mounting a military invasion and occupation of a large country like Australia. America has bankrupted itself by invading and occupying countries in the 21st century; Asian countries aren’t interested in that.
AUKUS is therefore a $368 billion extortion payment to the US and UK for “protection” we don’t need and which those countries will never actually provide. Donald Trump has just demonstrated that when America wants to act in its own interests it doesn’t care about its “allies”, no matter how faithful we have been. This is the wake-up call Australia needed to get out of the toxic AUKUS relationship.
Petition Summary
We call upon the Australian government to:
Immediately assert Australia’s independent national interest and cancel the expensive, unreliable, and provocative AUKUS agreement.
(Click here to read the full text of petition)
Sign the petition: Australia should never have joined AUKUS; Trump’s tariffs are the latest good reason to cancel it
For too long, Australia has been subservient to two foreign powers: the United Kingdom and the United States. The late former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser called them our “Dangerous Allies” in his 2014 book by that name. He said Australia has never been an independent nation, and our relationship with our dangerous allies the UK and USA has dragged us into wars that have damaged our nation.
In recent decades the United States has become the dominant ally, and our relationship has become even more subservient. Aside from supporting its forever wars, we have allowed the USA to establish a military presence in Australia that is unprecedented in peacetime: a base for US Marines in Darwin, a base for “nuclear-capable” B52 bombers in Darwin, to station B2 nuclear capable stealth bombers in Brisbane, and to station nuclear submarines in Perth. That’s on top of Pine Gap in the Northern Territory, which provides the technical guidance for US and allied bombing deployments, and therefore implicates Australia in every war and war crime America and its allies commit, including: drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen that killed hundreds of civilians; the war in Afghanistan and regime-change wars in Libya and Syria; the use of US missiles against Russia; and Israel’s scorched-earth bombing of Gaza.
The United States also dominates our financial system, as the biggest foreign investor in Australia, including as the majority owner of “Australia’s” Big Four banks, which have damaged our economy immensely through predatory lending and withdrawing branch services.
The Australians who argue in favour of having this kind of relationship with the United States claim we need it for protection, but protection from whom? The assumption that Asian countries somehow want to invade Australia is ludicrous. They are perfectly happy to trade with us for the resources they need, which is much cheaper than mounting a military invasion and occupation of a large country like Australia. America has bankrupted itself by invading and occupying countries in the 21st century; Asian countries aren’t interested in that.
AUKUS is therefore a $368 billion extortion payment to the US and UK for “protection” we don’t need and which those countries will never actually provide. Donald Trump has just demonstrated that when America wants to act in its own interests it doesn’t care about its “allies”, no matter how faithful we have been. This is the wake-up call Australia needed to get out of the toxic AUKUS relationship.
Please sign the petition now.
Petition Summary
We call upon the Australian government to:
Immediately assert Australia’s independent national interest and cancel the expensive, unreliable, and provocative AUKUS agreement.
(Click here to read the full text of petition)
PETITION
Cancel the AUKUS agreement immediately
TO THE HONOURABLE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
This petition of concerned Australians draws to the attention of the House that:
The United States of America has control of large areas of Australia’s land for its military bases. The USA is the largest foreign investor in Australia, by far, with extensive shareholdings in Australia’s biggest and most profitable corporations and other investments amounting to $1.17 trillion.
The Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) is heavily in favour of the USA, which enjoyed a trade surplus with Australia in 2023 of $32 billion. Australia has supported the United States in every foreign war since the beginning of the 20th century; has supported the US policy of confronting Australia’s biggest trading partner China at the expense of our trade; and has committed to spending $368 billion on the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) agreement to buy nuclear submarines, which has been provocative to our Asia-Pacific neighbours and which experts say are unlikely to ever be delivered.
Nevertheless, the US government has imposed large tariffs on Australian aluminium and steel, demonstrating that the United States will always put its national interests first, regardless of its allies.
This decision confirms that it is time for Australia to chart our own course as an independent nation.
We therefore ask the House to:
Immediately assert Australia’s independent national interest: cancel the expensive, unreliable, and provocative AUKUS agreement, and invest the money we save in infrastructure and services to benefit Australians.
PETITION
Cancel the AUKUS agreement immediately
TO THE HONOURABLE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
This petition of concerned Australians draws to the attention of the House that:
The United States of America has control of large areas of Australia’s land for its military bases. The USA is the largest foreign investor in Australia, by far, with extensive shareholdings in Australia’s biggest and most profitable corporations and other investments amounting to $1.17 trillion.
The Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) is heavily in favour of the USA, which enjoyed a trade surplus with Australia in 2023 of $32 billion. Australia has supported the United States in every foreign war since the beginning of the 20th century; has supported the US policy of confronting Australia’s biggest trading partner China at the expense of our trade; and has committed to spending $368 billion on the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) agreement to buy nuclear submarines, which has been provocative to our Asia-Pacific neighbours and which experts say are unlikely to ever be delivered.
Nevertheless, the US government has imposed large tariffs on Australian aluminium and steel, demonstrating that the United States will always put its national interests first, regardless of its allies.
This decision confirms that it is time for Australia to chart our own course as an independent nation.
We therefore ask the House to:
Immediately assert Australia’s independent national interest: cancel the expensive, unreliable, and provocative AUKUS agreement, and invest the money we save in infrastructure and services to benefit Australians.
Website: https://citizensparty.org.au Phone: 1800 636 432 Email: info@citizensparty.org.au Postal Address: PO Box 376, Coburg, Vic 3058
Website: https://citizensparty.org.au
Phone: 1800 636 432
Email: info@citizensparty.org.au
Postal Address: PO Box 376, Coburg, Vic 3058
Authorised by Craig Isherwood, Citizens Party, Melbourne.