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Australia has an opportunity to get out of the AUKUS security pact. We should take it.
Sydney,16 June,2025
To Prime Minister Anthony Albanese,
AUKUS ties Australia ever closer to an increasingly volatile and aggressive America.
Australia Institute research shows over half of Australians (57%) support a Parliamentary Inquiry into AUKUS.
We call on the Australian Government to establish a parliamentary inquiry into the AUKUS security pact, in line with Australia’s national security and best interests.
The Trump Administration has announced a review of AUKUS, joining the UK in reviewing the joint security pact. Australia now has a real chance to escape this disastrous deal, which has not been properly scrutinised by the Australian Parliament.
AUKUS ties us ever closer to an increasingly volatile and aggressive America.
We ask the Albanese Government to prioritise Australia’s interests and security, and to join the UK and the US Governments in undertaking an independent parliamentary inquiry into the AUKUS security pact.
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Australians already support an parliamentary inquiry into the future of AUKUS
Recent polling by the Australia Institute found a majority (57%) of Australians support putting the deal before a parliamentary inquiry, with half (54%) of Australians wanting a more independent foreign policy over a closer alliance with the United States.
An earlier poll found more Australians consider Donald Trump a greater threat to world peace than both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
For too long, Australian foreign and security policy has been hidden behind closed doors – which is why we get disastrous, anti-democratic deals like AUKUS in the first place.
AUKUS will not make Australia safer. It makes Australia more vulnerable, and compromises our ability to make independent decisions about our own security.
Australia has already handed over a AU$800 million deposit of the estimated $368 billion cost of AUKUS. But we can fill the capability gap left by AUKUS. And we can invest in the things that really do make Australia safer.
We call on the Albanese Government to establish an urgent parliamentary inquiry into the AUKUS security pact.
