It is our melancholy duty to inform Australians of the quiet surrender of our nation’s sovereignty
I. Introduction: The Mask and the Man
What they see is a Prime Minister. What I see is a party animal – trapped in a role he was never prepared to play. He knows how to win power. He doesn’t know how to wield it. And when he fails, he blames everyone but himself.
The Albanese government has presided over a quiet but systematic surrender of Australian sovereignty. Through AUKUS, through the integration of Australian forces into American military structures, through secret arms deals, and through a failure to interrogate the strategic consequences of our alliance commitments, Australia is being transformed from an independent nation into a junior partner – a vassal state without voting rights.
This is not a deepening of alliance. This is a strategic surrender.
II. AUKUS: The $368 Billion Abdication
The AUKUS nuclear submarine deal is the clearest example of this failure. Australia will commit $368 billion to acquire nuclear-powered submarines – equivalent to more than $30 million per day across three decades.
But the deal is plagued by problems:
- Deliverability: The United States shipyards cannot meet production targets, averaging only 1.1 to 1.2 Virginia-class submarines per year, far below the required 2.33.
- Cost blowouts: Australia will commit nearly $10 billion to subsidise US and UK naval shipyards.
- Strategic uncertainty: Former foreign minister Gareth Evans has warned that AUKUS will place Australia’s sovereignty at “serious risk,” with submarines effectively becoming “an extension of U.S. military power.”
- A “junior partner” trap: Former Defence Department analyst Dr Andrew Gaczol told a public inquiry that Australia will become a “junior” partner to the United States and lose its strategic independence. According to Dr Gaczol, “The Australian political class and defence policy community still think it’s our melancholy duty to support the military commitments of our great and powerful friends, even if they conflict with Australian interests.”
III. The US-Israel Military Merger: Australia’s Involuntary Integration
In July 2026, the US House of Representatives passed a $1.15 trillion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by a vote of 216 to 212.
Section 219 of the Act establishes a “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,” requiring the Pentagon to appoint an executive agent to “expand and accelerate bilateral defense technology research.” The provision “would all but fuse the two countries’ armed forces together” across multiple domains, including biotechnology, autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and cyberwarfare.
Representative Jennifer McClellan condemned the provision as one that “undermines our sovereignty and lacks any form of oversight.”
Why does this matter to Australia?
The Australian Defence Force has long achieved interoperability with the US military. Israel has achieved interoperability with the US since 1981. If the US and Israel move from interoperability to integration, the two degrees of separation between the ADF and the IDF are reduced to one.
Australia is being integrated into Israel’s military system through the American link. We are being drawn into a conflict not of our choosing, through a chain of obligations we never consciously accepted.
IV. Australia’s De Facto Participation in the Iran War
The evidence of Australia’s entanglement is already clear.
A. Intelligence Sharing
In March 2026, Australia deployed an E-7A Wedgetail surveillance aircraft and 85 ADF personnel to the UAE. The aircraft provides “long-range reconnaissance capability” to “secure the airspace above the Gulf.” Defence officials have confirmed that reconnaissance information obtained by the Wedgetail is also provided to US allies including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar.
While the government insists the role is “defensive,” the intelligence is fed into the Joint Air Operations Center (CAOC), which is under the command of US Central Command – and the US is waging an offensive war against Iran.
B. Embedded Troops
As of June 2026, 729 ADF personnel are embedded with US and UK armed forces. Some Australian personnel were aboard a US submarine that sank an Iranian frigate in the Indian Ocean. The Defence Chief defended this involvement as “in our national interest to have our people on board US Virginia Class submarines training, learning and understanding.”
C. Arms Supplies
Australia has been supplying Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs) to the UAE. The government has also issued 322 defence export permits to Israel since 1 January 2017. As Greens Senator David Shoebridge noted, Australia has “one of the most secretive and unaccountable weapons export systems in the world.”
V. The Logic of Sovereignty Concession
The chain of sovereignty loss is clear:
- US-Israel Integration (NDAA Section 219) →
- Australia-US Integration (AUKUS, interoperability agreements) →
- Australia’s de facto military integration with Israel through the US →
- Australia’s strategic autonomy is diluted, and military decision-making is influenced by external forces.
Each link in this chain was forged without parliamentary debate. As the AUKUS inquiry has noted, the Federal Parliament “never held a thorough debate on the agreement,” exposing “a clear democratic deficit” in Australia’s largest strategic commitment.
VI. The Political Class: Incompetence or Complicity?
The Albanese government’s approach to national security is defined by caution, message control, and risk aversion – not by strategic vision.
- On AUKUS: The government has refused to interrogate the $368 billion deal, despite “substantial reservations” that have “not abated.”
- On the Iran war: The government insists Australia is not involved in “offensive operations,” but our assets are providing intelligence that enables offensive operations.
- On arms exports: The government has fought to keep arms exports to Israel secret, only being forced to disclose information by Federal Court order.
- On the NDAA: The government has remained silent on Section 219 – a provision that directly compromises Australian strategic autonomy.
Incompetent people, once in power, are more dangerous than bad people because:
- Bad people can be brought down.
- An incompetent person will remain there, constantly causing destruction, yet appearing “unblamed” after each failure.
VII. Conclusion: The Cost of Silence
Australia’s political class and defence policy community still believe it is their “melancholy duty to support the military commitments of our great and powerful friends, even if they conflict with Australian interests.”
But a new world order is coming. Australia has a choice: position itself for that new order, or desperately cling to a slipping world order.
Through AUKUS, through Section 219, through secret arms deals and uncritical alliance commitments, we are choosing the latter.
The chain of sovereignty concession is tightening. And the Australian people are being told nothing.
The question is not whether Australia will be dragged into a war not of its choosing. The question is: when that war comes, will we have any say in whether we fight?
Dedicated to my beloved wife and confidante – who taught me to see the person behind the mask, and to trust what I see.
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The USA is not preparing to go to war with China. It is preparing Australia to go to war with China.
(Apologies to whoever I shamelessly pinched this quote from, I can’t find the article that contained it.)
Labor is so invested in claiming that total subservience to the USA will somehow provide Australia with security (how did that work out for the Gulf states?) that it is walking Australia blindly into being used as a proxy front line for a confrontation with China.
If, in May ’25, you voted for Labor ahead of a progressive alterntative in favour of developing our national defence policy independent of the USA then, when you look at your grandchildren, do you think ‘tough luck, I’m happy with a Labor government and a target on your back.
@Thommo, if that’s the case, then we’ve well & truly lost the plot.
Australian military numbers: 92,000
Chinese military numbers: approx 2 million.
How any Australian military planner, bureaucrat, or politician can entertain such a scenario is beyond comprehension.
We’ve seemingly transitioned through the Looking Glass and are now into the deep realms of fantasy & irrationality.
Just when you think that there couldn’t be any other ways for Labor to sell Australia down the drain, they come up with another.
In Independent Australia, Wayne Hawkins, Independent candidate for Clark, writes of another way Labor has found to surrender our sovereignty.
“While Australia debates the $368 billion AUKUS bill, a quieter surrender of sovereignty is happening in our defence software — and unlike submarines, this is one we could actually build ourselves, writes Wayne Hawkins.
IN FEBRUARY THIS YEAR, the Department of Defence signed its largest-ever contract with Palantir Technologies — a $7.6 million deal to supply an ICT platform for Defence’s Cyber and Electronic Warfare Division. It was awarded under a limited tender. No open market. No competition. No opportunity for an Australian firm to even put its hand up……..
A contract obtained by Crikey in March revealed that Palantir’s arrangements with Defence include embedding company staff inside the department and handling Australian data, on contractual terms notably favourable to the company.
Defence has now spent more than $26 million with Palantir since 2013. AUSTRAC – the agency that watches every significant financial transaction in the country – has seen its Palantir contract swell past $12 million through repeated variations.
The submarines bind our hardware to Washington; the software binds our data. Researchers have warned that Palantir’s highly specialised tools create vendor lock-in — the more an agency relies on the platform to make sense of its own information, the harder and more expensive it becomes to ever leave. Once a foreign company’s proprietary system sits between the Australian government and the Australian government’s own data, sovereignty over that data is a courtesy, not a fact……..
Consider what Defence has actually asked Palantir to do. Under an earlier contract, the company was engaged to map Australia’s defence industry capability and capacity — an “Industrial Intelligence Capability”. Sit with that for a moment. A foreign corporation, aligned with a foreign administration, has been paid to build the definitive map of Australia’s sovereign industrial base. Whoever holds that map knows our strengths, our gaps, our dependencies and our pressure points — knowledge we do not hold about them in return.”
But, it gets worse, not just has a foreign corporation aligned with a foreign country been given the keys to our defence strengths and weaknesses, but Australia could have built this software ourselves.
“Here’s the part that should make every Australian genuinely angry: unlike nuclear submarines, this is a capability we could build ourselves.
Australia has no nuclear industry, no nuclear engineering workforce of scale. Fair enough — that gap took decades to create.
But software? Data analytics? We produced Atlassian and Canva from scratch — two of the most successful enterprise software companies in the world. CSIRO’s Data61 is a world-class data science research organisation. Our universities produce AI and machine learning graduates that Silicon Valley actively poaches. The talent exists. It is ours. Much of it leaves precisely because contracts like this one go offshore without a tender.”
Switzerland told Palantir to get on their bike, I think it is Spain, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark and the UK have just thrown Palantir out, but to Labor, nothing Australian should be beyond Palantir’s grasp.
On a side note: Ave, Bill Oddie.
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/for-he-s-a-bill-oddie-good-fellow-why-this-goody-was-the-best-20260728-p60j9o.html
As we are unofficially the 51st State of Uncle Sam’s, when will we be required to salute the star spangled banner?And will we get a holiday on July 4th?
We may as well be on permanent holiday,because it sure looks like Anal Albo’s mob are.Hegseth’s bum boy Marles,will be pleased
Or are we the southernmost outpost of Israel.