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The lack of knowledge and understanding in these comments is astounding.

You can’t live with them and we can’t live without them

Too little too late need them now!!!!!

The stupidity of this mans comment that nuclear waste is better for the environment is mind blowing. Nuclear power is NOT RENEWABLE, building a nuclear power plant is prohibitively expensive and the only people that benefit are the plant owners. We need to invest in renewable energy that doesn't come with a cancer inducing by-product or known risk of catastrophic failure if human nature once again leads to budget cuts or just sheer laziness with maintenance. Fckn Libs selling off the future to bandaid todays problems. Again.

How many nuclear plants are in production in America? Zero! And this is a country that knows how to build nuclear plants and needs them. We are not an outlier. Significantly more renewable was put in around the world than Nuclear. 1Gw of power added, mostly Russia and China. So yeah, everyone is ‘planning’ to build nuclear but rhetoric is not matching reality. Let’s just see the emperor without his clothes. You want to keep coal plants going and have no plan to build nuclear

If you choose to ignore the CSIRO report that renewables are quicker and cheaper to establish, then there really is not much help for the country. Clearly the American proclivity to strut around and say 'we're somebody' has taken hold of some Australians and such hubris will lead the country to make the same mistakes as the Americans.

Just a thought on the locations of countries that have significant nuclear powered electricity generation. All of western and central Europe, all of Russia, Northern Japan, all of Canada and the USA north of Chicago are further from the equator than southern Tasmania. Furthermore there is no moderating ocean between the Arctic and any of these countries. They all have long, dark, VERY cold winters. Solar isn’t an option. Don’t take my word for it, dust off your atlases.

Sweden a major leader in most global metrics, why are they shutting down there nuclear power plants? Will those that think nuclear is safe, bet the lives of themselves and there families that the plants will be 100% safe? Where are these fools planning to build these plants? Since we currently struggle to connect the existing renewables. Our power bills are managed just like our supermarket and fuel prices. That why they can conveniently drop just before any election.

Australia can never become sovereign until USA bases are told to get out.

Thanks for raising this, if I'm sent to war I'll be glad to know someone cares about maintenance

Lie Labor must go

It beggars belief that the heads of our defence force along with their public servant puppets can sit in front of the Senate committee and lie their faces off, give Ukraine the equipment that we don’t use!

WHY does our defence department want to literally bury these valuable helicopters when they can give them to Ukraine? The Ukrainians NEED them. They KNOW they need maintenance. NO-ONE from the government or defence has answered, except with weasel-word, evasive BS.

Overpaid idiots out of their depth, talking rubbish. Instead of buying the Boeing 'Apache E' model attack helicopter, a combat-proven, reliable system, they buy an unreliable failure that has done serious harm to our skilled and brave defence personal. WHY?

One of the biggest outcome needed is for the nuclear subs to come in on time and on budget. We can't even build a patrol boat on budget and no one is held accountable. These subs could well do the job of our emeries by bankrupting the country. Also if word salads were weapons this admiral would win any war.

Albos mob are cruelling defense now.they willake sure we don't get subs, even if U row them.

Just described, it is clear we have a top heavy bureaucratic nightmare. Too heavy with administrators at the expense of and weak at the operational level of the service. A typical Sir Humphrey administrative paradigm.

Well this all sounds horrifically expensive... Tri-lateral steering groups you say?

Trump will take them off you lol

36 million per day for 30 years. Value +++.

If Papalia is involved in a (lol) “steering program” …..we’re screwed

1.5mil for infrastructure at Stirling 😝 Can we stop calling it “fleet base west” ??? It’s embarrassing. Should be a hive of activity like the 80s 90s…..it’s more like a retirement village on a beautiful island.

Was AUKUS implemented for Scotty from marketing to have a ready made trough for his snout when he retired? Tell me it's not corruption.

Nice Shirt? Do they make them for MEN???

HOMOS.

McHales Navy😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

More Bs. They cant run the current submarines on a war footing. There is No way they will have enough crew for the new ones, let alone if we get the submarines. The government must start a competition so that the country that can supply the nuclear subs first gets the contract. The 3 bidders are the UK,USA and France. No more Maybes and in 2050 etc.

Ukraine wants them, they need them. Politicians talking weasel words that deliberately try to confuse and deceive. Why did our military buy this dud in the first place? Long history of defense purchase disasters

Virginia 2 subs cost $2.4 billion US. That is $3 billion AUS. So...., WHY are our leaders intent on spending $365 billion on 8 Frankenstein UK/US subs made in Adelaide in the never never. Just buy 10 Virginia 2 NOW. It will be a disaster

we should be so happy to get subs already 20 years old russia and china can produce state of the art subs and build them within a year but we will get these rust buckets what a joke

It’s a huge deal to transition into the nuclear subs for the Aus navy completely across the spectrum .. Stirling will need massive upgrades , training will be a new world for our navy personal and state and federal govs will be a challenge in it self ..well done Senator Fawcett keeping a eye and questioning on this massive undertaking .

'If you was to come into our office...' Officers are no longer educated

With so many meetings, it's a wonder he gets anything real done.

What a Joke AUKUS is.

am i crazy but i really like Senator Fawcett...no non-sense....if we are a burden let me know....if it is easier for you it is better for me kinda thought. i strove to be that way when i was in the us navy. now ret )))) senior Os did like it. but my guys appreciated it lol

Now that you are putting nuclear weapons at Stirling base and at the American air base in Darwin when are we going to be granted money to relocate away from Australia?

Excellent speech calling out a sneaky, nasty government. Once again attempting to meddle in our lives without being asked.

Keep it up

Again, well done sir. Work with Jacinta, Rennick, Roberts, Hanson, Babette, Antic…etc. Form a super party. We can’t live with Lab/Lib. Wong is unfit for purpose. The bureaucrats are useless.

Thankyou Senator.I see their answer was pass the batton.

well if you clowns hadnt gone and outsourced DFR we'd be in a better place . and govt has been told for decades that unlerss you change the conditions then people will go mining etc... didnt listen then and nobody listened since.

Ahh yes, western politicians always interfering in others affairs. How about we focus on Australia instead, which is your core job. As far as democracy goesw, show me a real example of an actual democracy. Cause we aren't one.

Senator you are a good man doing great work. Your videos are very helpful and you are one of the few thinking about the deeper issues.

It's a shame we ignored the genocide of the Karen until China started supporting them giving China soft power in Myanmar. We could tax the mines to build a wall of soft power around Australia but instead short sighted governments either ignore opportunities or actively invade neighbouring countries to steal resource wealth from nations that need it a lot more than us. Given our record in the region it's hard to considered us the "good guys".

Comms is 2 way, the point identified is that we will not be qualified to operate under the agreement! Hahaha, AU2KUS, Aussies love giving up their sovereignty 😢

I have watched several of these interviews conducted by Sen Fawcett and I am FLABBERGASTERED by the unwillingness to provide straight answers to straight questions, this is about the defence of Australia and these military people and various politicians treat the whole thing as a joke. There needs to be penalties imposed.

The consideration or a rational thought on assistance to Ukraine should not be predicated on a diary. I am usually an admirer of M Wong, but not on these issues, what is WRONG with a pause ?

9 April..what IS happening with these helicopters, if they are safe, what IS the problem, the F 18 affair was disgusting enough.

When are we going t get rid of the ineffective middleman called CASG, this organisation helps to ensure we are ill-equipped to fight any future conflict, fat lazy public servants and out of touch obsolete military personnel. A long list of failed projects over time, Land121, SEA1000, Land400 ph2, ph3, and ph 4, LAND907-2, just a few that are late, over cost, have provided less capability than needed. Abject failure of CASG who just ignore the ministers of any party.

on THAT pt i agree + the Senator .. give 'em the Taipans .. Ukrainians have proven their creativity & resourcefulness time & time again in their struggle against the aggressor