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James Robertson

Albanese keeps debate in check, but two ALP heavyweights deliver brutal AUKUS verdicts

AUKUS Anthony Albanese ALP United States Scott Morrison Labor Australia Andrew Shearer Josh Wilson Karen Andrews
Anthony Albanese seems increasingly unlikely to avoid a public debate about AUKUS and major changes to national defence policy. Photo: AAP

One week since he handed down a $368 billion policy to acquire nuclear-powered submarines in California, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is no closer to seeing it accepted but remains unbowed.

Labor’s two most influential foreign policy thinkers have spoken out against the AUKUS plan and its attendant commitment to make Australia a more active military presence in Asia, as criticism was aired by an MP in the lower house and others in caucus.

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