{"id":188468,"date":"2025-03-20T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=188468"},"modified":"2025-03-20T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T04:23:10","slug":"bob-carr-says-aukus-a-colossal-surrender-of-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=188468","title":{"rendered":"Bob Carr says Aukus a \u2018colossal surrender of sovereignty\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Australia faces a \u201ccolossal surrender of sovereignty\u201d if promised US nuclear-powered submarines do not arrive under Australian control, former foreign affairs minister Bob Carr has said, arguing the US is \u201cutterly not a reliable ally\u201d to Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s inevitable we\u2019re not getting them,\u201d Carr told the Guardian, ahead of the release of a report from Australians for War Powers Reform<\/a> that argues the multibillion-dollar Aukus deal had been imposed upon Australia without sufficient public or parliamentary scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe evidence is mounting that we\u2019re not going to get Virginia-class subs from the United States,\u201d Carr said, \u201cfor the simple reason they\u2019re not building enough for their own needs and will not, in the early 2030s, be peeling off subs from their own navy to sell to us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia faces a \u201ccolossal surrender of sovereignty\u201d if promised US nuclear-powered submarines do not arrive under Australian control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":188469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[12530,11],"class_list":["post-188468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-aukus","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t