Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

So many Australians have been pretty anxious since the results of the US election. The majority of Australians, actually, when they're asked about how they would have voted and how they would have felt about the results, say they would have rejected the Trump election. They didn't want Trump to be elected—and rightly so—because he's extreme, he's unstable, he's irrational, he's dangerous, he's nasty, he's a felon, he's a crook, he assaults women, he attacks minorities and he takes away women's rights but gives all the power to his billionaire mates. Yet this is the person that Australia is now hooking our wagon to under the AUKUS agreement.

When Australia first signed up to this and the Labor Party followed the Liberal Party in lockstep, Paul Keating of course called this 'the worst deal in history'. That's how dudded Australia was, according to the former Prime Minister. He said, 'AUKUS turns Australia into the 51st state of America.' Now the United States of America has a dangerous, right-wing nut job back at the helm. Of course, we know what's going to happen. The Leader of the Opposition, Peter Dutton, is already parroting Trump's lines, his dangerous rhetoric and his nasty strategies. We urge the Labor Party: stop, think and act. It's time to get out of AUKUS before it's too late.