Book on Aukus ‘fiasco’ says decision to embrace pact will ‘haunt’ Labor for years

Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty argues Aukus is a ‘deeply flawed’ scheme that ties Australia’s future ‘to whoever is in the White House’. Photograph: Richard Wainwright/AAP

One of Australia’s most important requirements for its new submarines is the ability to work alongside the United States in the South China Sea, a new book discloses.

The book by Andrew Fowler, a former investigative journalist for the ABC’s Four Corners and Foreign Correspondent programs, also predicts that Labor’s rush to embrace the Aukus pact “will haunt them for years to come”.