By Bevan Ramsden* There is significant community, including trade union, opposition to the Labor Government’s embrace of AUKUS and its proposed spend of $368 billion on acquisition of nuclear -powered submarines. That opposition is spreading to the Labor Party’s own rank and file branches. The ALP leadership is undeterred by this opposition and one must ask why? Does fear of …

by Bevan Ramsden * This is not a conspiracy theory. The United States interference in Australia’s domestic politics was confirmed by no lesser person than the President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, in an apology to Gough Whitlam via the President’s envoy at a breakfast meeting in the Qantas lounge in 1977. Whitlam conveyed the substance of the meeting …