Fatima Payman (WA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

The Minister for Defence said the AUKUS deal 'represents a very significant increase of the American footprint on the Australian continent, something we very much welcome'. The government rightly mocks the opposition's uncosted nuclear plan, but, when those power plants finally arrive years later and are billions over budget, at least they will produce energy and some electricity.

The Guardian reported last year:

A US official has declined to explicitly guarantee Australia will have full control of the Aukus nuclear-powered submarines …

So we'll pay for the submarines, we'll pay to upgrade American port facilities and we'll pay Americans rather than Australians to build them, but we won't even own them. To paraphrase President Trump, 'This has been the worst deal in the history of deals, maybe ever.'