In his submission to the Public Inquiry into AUKUS, former submariner and former senator Rex Patrick threaded a story throughout equating AUKUS with buying a Ferrari. Russell Rollason, secretary of the Australian Peace and Security Forum, one of the organizations supporting the Inquiry, thought the story might make a cartoon. This is my attempt, simplified…
And simplified even more, into a single picture …
To sum it up, Russell Rollason’s AUKUS impression drawn up….
Cartoons from the latest Australia Socialist Journal.
Cartoon ideas from the Adelaide session of the Independent Review of the AUKUS Submarine Contract. More at the Australian Peace and Security Forum.
Ten years ago in South Australia as part of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission: SA citizens’ jury votes against storing nuclear waste. A demonstration of the real value of the citizen jury process. The AUKUS agreement with South Australian involvement in the building and maintenance of nuclear submarines challenges the citizen jury vote in 2016.
For a post on the 2016 Citizen’s Jury see here.
AUKUS – the incredibly expensive trilateral defense agreement between Australia, the UK, and the US, hasn’t actually given us anything. We are not consulted, have no valued voice … but then, we are very compliant … and complicit …
… or maybe 1,000 years. How do you dismantle a nuclear submarine?
Cartoon ideas for the next issue of Australian Socialist. Articles include an update on the Voice Referendum, AUKUS, the US Military Empire, the Doomsday Clock is ticking, Timor-Leste and Timor Sea Tasi Mane oil exploration, Death and Taxes, Indigenous Liberation and Socialism book review, the Emerging New World Economy, and more.
Cartoons for Australian Socialist. The May issue will report on Australia in the international arena, and the AUKUS nuclear submarines deal.
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 