Former Labor senator Doug Cameron has accused the Albanese government, and its left faction in particular, of deserting principle and abandoning Australian sovereignty to the United States.
Cameron, a New South Wales senator from 2008 to 2019, when he was a firebrand and factional leader of the left, excoriated the government over its support for AUKUS.
Delivering the Carmichael Lecture in Melbourne on Wednesday night, Cameron declared the parliamentary left had “allowed themselves to be defanged and co-opted into supporting US military aggression”.
