US Lackey Australian Labor Government Betrays Humanity Over Existential Nuclear Threat: Put Labor Last

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Australia under a racist, unprincipled, climate criminal, war criminal, Zionist-subverted and cravenly US lackey Labor Government has betrayed  the World  in relation to  the key existential threats to Humanity from poverty, nuclear weapons and climate change. Gaza Genocide-complicit Labor backs the Apartheid Israeli mass murder of 186,000 civilians  so far in the Gaza Concentration Camp, and is thus normalizing the prospect of mass deaths from nuclear weapons and climate change.

One of the world’s greatest minds, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, has succinctly set out  the existential threat to Humanity from nuclear weapons and climate change: “We see great peril if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change” [1]. Put simply, a nuclear winter from a massive nuclear exchange would decimate Humanity and the Biosphere [2]. In the absence of requisite urgent action, it is estimated that in a worst case scenario 10 billion people will die this century in a catastrophic Climate Genocide en route to a sustainable population of only about 1 billion by 2100 [3, 4].  However in the impoverished Global South  the mortal threat from deadly poverty is here and now: about 7.4 million people (overwhelmingly in the Global South and mostly children) die avoidably from deprivation each year on Spaceship Earth with the rich Global North in charge of the flight deck, and 1,500 million have died thus since 1950 in an ongoing Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust [5].

While intelligent, science-informed and humane people understand these existential threats to Humanity and the Biosphere, that recognition has not translated into political action. Thus in relation to climate change, notwithstanding massive political rhetoric effective action to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution is absent: atmospheric levels of the GHGs carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are at record highs  and increasing at record high rates [6]. In relation to the ongoing Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust, it is simply ignored by Western Mainstream media and politicians as are some 70 other genocide and holocaust atrocities (for listings and quantitative assessment of these horrific but generally ignored atrocities see [7-10]). Indeed while everybody is properly aware of the horrific WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed by the German Nazis), Zionist-perverted Western media resolutely ignore other WW2 holocausts namely (deaths from violence and imposed deprivation in brackets) the WW2 Polish Holocaust (6 million), the WW2 European Holocaust (30 million), the WW2 Soviet Holocaust (25 million), the WW2 Chinese Holocaust (35-40 million), and the WW2 Bengali Holocaust (WW2 Indian Holocaust, WW2 Bengal Famine; 6-7 million Indians deliberately starved to death for strategic reasons in Bengal, Bihar, Assam and Odisha by the British with food-denying Australian complicity) [7-10].

History ignored yields history repeated [7] and for the last 10 months Jewish Israelis have been conducting a Gaza Massacre and Gaza Genocide in the Gaza Concentration Camp – while the World looks on.  The top medical journal The Lancet  has estimated that 186,000 Gazans have been killed through violence or violently-imposed deprivation [11- 15], it is further estimated that this carnage includes the deaths of 136,000 children, 17,000 women and 33,000 men [14, 15], and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that the Jewish Israeli Occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory and attendant impositions are illegal [14, 15]. Yet the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris Administration  has supplied about $18 billion in military aid to Apartheid Israel’s Gaza Massacre including the bombs that have reduced the ancient and populous  city of Gaza to rubble and largely deprived its 2.3 million  inhabitants  (47% children) of the life-preserving requisites of water, food, shelter, sanitation, medicine and medical care. Yet the US and the US-beholden West simply look on. Child-killing geriatric Joe Biden is now presented as a humane alternative to mass murderer Benjamin Netanyahu who has been enthusiastically received by most (but certainly not all)  members of the US Congress. The World is relieved because Kamala Harris through articulation of facts and reason is set to defeat  anti-science, racist  and pathological liar Donald Trump in a presidential battle dubbed “the prosecutor versus the felon” – yet Vice President Kamala Harris’ complicity in the bombs-supplying Biden Administration’s Gaza Genocide (186,000 Palestinians killed, including 136,000 children, 17,000 women and 33,000 men ) is utterly ignored.

The awful reality is that an ongoing mass murder of a starving and traumatized population in Gaza has been normalized in the West, with appalling implications for how the world will respond to the likelihood of 10 billion climate-related deaths from deprivation in the Global  South this century.  

Ordinary folk are grossly mal-informed by pro-Trump Murdoch media that are effectively climate change denialist.  Other Mainstream media and politicians recognize the problem but  short-circuit effective action by implying that serious climate problems are decades away (notwithstanding record intensity fires, droughts and storms). Ordinary folk and their political representatives ignore the acute seriousness of the situation with consequent  global inaction  over climate change and the terrifying consequence that atmospheric levels of the GHGs carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are at record highs and increasing at record high rates [6, 16, 17].

Despite extraordinary wealth and high average educational attainment, my country Australia is among world leading countries for climate criminality (e.g. it is among world leaders for fossil fuel  exports, and with 0.33% of the world’s population its annual per capita Domestic and Exported  GHG pollution is 3.4% of that of the World) [16, 17]. Unlike the anti-science, effective climate change denialist and ignorantly Trumpist Coalition Opposition, the Australian Labor Government admits that climate change is a problem and claims to be doing something about it. However the Labor Government has succumbed to corporate pressure and is on a disastrous course of approving several dozen  new coal and gas extraction projects. The Australia Institute: “Approving four new coal mines undermines our climate goals. Approving 25 more coal mines, and the 12.6 billion tonnes of emissions they would cause, is incompatible with limiting dangerous climate change” [18] . Similarly, as a craven US lackey Australia has been involved in all post-1950 US Asian wars (atrocities associated with 40 million Asian deaths from violence and war-imposed deprivation) [5]. Labor supported all but 2 of these atrocities  (the Vietnam War and the Iraq War) [5]. The Zionist-subverted, Zionist-perverted and US lackey Australian Labor Government is second only to the US as a fervent supporter of Apartheid Israel and hence of the obscene crimes of Apartheid and illegal Occupation [19-21]. True to form, the racist , anti-Arab anti-Semitic, and anti-Jewish anti-Semitic Australian Labor Government is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in some 20 ways [19].

However the existential threat to the World from nuclear weapons (unlike the threat from climate change) is not an incrementally worsening scenario – it is something that can be realized tomorrow simply through accident. Already on several occasions the World has been saved from a Nuclear Holocaust by a Russian commander disobeying orders and not pressing the red button (e.g. by assuming that the radar image was that of migrating birds  rather than that from  a US first strike) [2].   

As detailed below the cowardly and unprincipled Australian Labor Government is shamefully deeply complicit in UK and US nuclear terrorism as a member of the nuclear-armed AUKUS Alliance and in numerous other ways.

(1). Australia is complicit in Anglo-American nuclear terrorism as a member of the Australia, UK and US (AUKUS) Alliance. Australia does not have nuclear weapons but assisted the UK testing of nuclear weapons and developing missile delivery systems in Australia. The US lackey Australian Labor Government  agreed with the Australia-UK-US (AUKUS) Alliance entered into by the previous Coalition Government. The UK and US have nuclear weapons and by being part of AUKUS Australia is a part of a nuclear-armed alliance. Unlike New Zealand Australia does not prohibit  nuclear-armed warships from  its ports and waters..

 (2). Nuclear-armed American B52 bombers are to be based in Australia.  Matthew Knott in the “quality”  Sydney Morning Herald (2023): “American B-52 bombers armed with nuclear warheads could rotate through Australia without breaching treaty obligations, the nation’s most senior defence public servant has indicated. The Australian public would never be informed whether such aircraft are carrying nuclear weapons under the so-called US policy of “warhead ambiguity” in which it neither confirms nor denies if particular forms of military equipment are nuclear-armed. While adamantly refusing to address hypothetical scenarios, Labor Foreign Minister Penny Wong said: “The responsible way of handling this is to recognise that the US has a ‘neither confirm nor deny position’ which we understand and respect.” It was revealed last year that the United States is preparing to build dedicated facilities for up to six B-52 bombers at Tindal air base, south of Darwin, for use in the Northern Territory dry season. Nuclear weapons opponents and the Chinese government blasted the plan on the basis it could escalate tensions in the Asia-Pacific and accelerate an arms race in the region” [23].

(3). Nuclear-armed UK and US submarines are to be based in Australia. Christopher Woody in the Business Insider (2023): “US and British submarines are set to soon operate out of Australia, giving the allies greater reach and presence in the Indian and Pacific oceans, where undersea activity by friends and foes alike has been intensifying. In March, President Joe Biden and his British and Australian counterparts announced a timeline for Australia to acquire new nuclear-powered submarines, with it first buying US-built subs in the early 2030s and then receiving the first Australian-built boats by the early 2040s. In the next few years, however, US and British subs are set to visit Australia more frequently. As soon as 2027, those navies will begin basing attack submarines — one British and as many as four from the US — at HMAS Stirling, an Australian navy base near the city of Perth on the Indian Ocean coast. Designated Submarine Rotational Forces – West, the subs will rotate through HMAS Stirling, rather than being permanently assigned, and officials say their presence will help develop Australia’s capacity and capability to operate its own nuclear-powered subs” [23].

(4). Australia will buy 8 nuclear-powered US and UK submarines and hence massively subsidize UK and US nuclear warfare industries . Al Jazeera (2024): “Australia is set to provide 4.6 billion Australian dollars ($3bn) to British industry to help support the construction of [8] nuclear-powered submarines under the AUKUS deal with the United Kingdom and the United States and ensure its new vessels arrive on time. Senior officials from the UK and Australia, as well as the US ambassador to Australia, visited the naval shipyard where the submarines will be built in the South Australian city of Adelaide on Friday… Australia, the UK and the US first announced the AUKUS trilateral security alliance in 2021 and revealed further details of how Australia would acquire the nuclear-powered submarines a year ago… Australia hopes to have eight nuclear-powered vessels in the water by the 2050s, a mix of the new AUKUS-class subs built at home and in the UK, and Virginia-class vessels purchased from the US” [24].

 (5). Australia’s 8 nuclear-powered submarines will cost A$368 billion over 2 decades. Andrew Greene and  Matthew Doran (ABC News, 2023): “Australia’s [8] nuclear submarine program will cost up to $368 billion over the next three decades, with confirmation that the federal government will buy at least three American-manufactured nuclear submarines and contribute “significant additional resources” to US shipyards. The Australian government will take three, potentially second-hand Virginia-class submarines early next decade, pending the approval of the US Congress. There will also be an option to purchase another two under the landmark AUKUS defence and security pact, announced in San Diego this morning. In the meantime, design and development work will continue on a brand new submarine, known as the SSN-AUKUS, “leveraging” work the British have already been doing to replace their Astute-class submarines” [25].

(6). Australia will store dangerous nuclear waste from Australia, UK and US nuclear-powered  submarines. Pip Hinman (Green Left): “Australia’s nuclear regulator greenlit the Australian Submarine Agency (ASA) on July 17 to proceed with plans for a nuclear waste storage facility at HMAS Stirling Base in Rockingham, Western Australia. ASA applied in March to the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) to prepare such a site, also known as a “Controlled Industrial Facility”. Without it, visiting United States and British nuclear-powered submarines could not undertake maintenance in Australia, making it an intrinsic part of the AUKUS military pact. Greens Senator David Shoebridge said Labor was caught in a bind because its bill to allow the US and Britain to dump high-level nuclear waste in Australia has been tabled but it did not want to allow debate as Opposition leader Peter Dutton was spruiking his civil nuclear plan” [26]. Former Australian Labor PM and US “asset” Bob Hawke was a strong advocate for Australia to store Western high-level nuclear waste in Australia.

 (7). Deadly exacerbation of already 100,000 preventable deaths per annum in Australia by the A$368 billion fiscal perversion of getting 8 nuclear-powered submarines. In 2022 I estimated that  about 100,000 Australians die preventably each year from “lifestyle choice” and “political choice” reasons, specifically from: (1). Obesity (24,000), (2). Smoking (20,000), (3). Covid-19 (12,000), (4). Medical error (12,000), (5). Air pollution (10,000), (6). Alcohol (5,900), (7). Indigenous preventable deaths (5,200), (8). Suicide (3,100), (9). Heat stress (2000), (10). Illicit drugs (1,800), (11). Melanoma (1,400), (12). Road deaths (1,200), and (13). Homicide including Femicide (193). I suggested practical ways Australia could try to reduce this carnage in all areas (e.g. better funding of medical services, education and preventive medicine)[27]. The circa A$400 billion committed by Labor to 8 nuclear-powered submarines means circa $20 billion per year for 20 years wasted on supporting Australian, UK and US (AUKUS) nuclear terrorism and militarism. The nuclear-powered submarines were chosen after cancelling a vastly  cheaper  French conventional submarine contract on the basis that the nuclear-powered submarines could lurk submerged undetected for longer. Yet rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) mean that these horrendously expensive White Elephants may already be detectable and vulnerable. The real reason for the change was because Australia is a craven lackey of the US. The decision to betray the French was made by the former Coalition PM Scott Morrison who had committed Australia to the AUKUS Alliance. When asked whether he thought that Morrison had lied to him, the French President Emmanuel Macron famously replied “I don’t think, I know” [28-30]. Wikipedia: “On 23 January 2024, Morrison announced his resignation as Member for Cook. He formally resigned on 28 February 2024. Morrison is reportedly set to join a consulting firm founded by Robert C. O’Brien, who served as National Security Advisor to former U.S. President Donald Trump. Morrison will reportedly join the firm, American Global Strategies LLC, as a non-executive vice chairman” [31].

 (8).  Australia is collaborating  with the US  on potentially nuclear-capable and destabilizing hypersonic missiles. Iain Boyd (Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, 2022), “Russia has claimed that some of its hypersonic weapons can carry a nuclear warhead. This statement alone is a cause for concern whether or not it is true. If Russia ever operates this system against an enemy, that country would have to decide the probability of the weapon being conventional or nuclear. In the case of the U.S., if the determination were made that the weapon was nuclear, then there is a very high likelihood that the U.S. would consider this a first strike attack and respond by unloading its nuclear weapons on Russia. The hypersonic speed of these weapons increases the precariousness of the situation because the time for any last-minute diplomatic resolution would be severely reduced. It is the destabilizing influence that modern hypersonic missiles represent that is perhaps the greatest risk they pose” [32]. Courtney Albon: “Hypersonic vehicles can travel and maneuver at speeds of Mach 5 or higher. The technology is a focus of the second phase of the trilateral pact between the Australia, the U.S. and the United Kingdom, known as AUKUS. While Pillar I focused on nuclear submarine development, the second pillar is geared toward advanced technology efforts like hypersonics as well as quantum computing, autonomy and electronic warfare. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin convened an AUKUS technology summit Dec. 1, where he and leaders from Australia and the U.K. launched several technology collaboration initiatives. Australia and the U.S. have been conducting hypersonic research together for more than 15 years” [33].

(9). Various  Australian universities and companies are linked to nuclear terrorist Israeli military. There is extensive  Apartheid Israeli military co-research with Australian universities and companies.There are many long-standing and dirty military co-research arrangements  between Apartheid Israel and Australian universities [34, 35].  The Victorian State Government signed a memorandum of understanding with Israel’s defence ministry in December 2022. There is a massive 2-way arms trade between nuclear-armed Israel and Australia. Australia has been soiled by extensive military research collaborations between Apartheid Israel and Australia universities, most notoriously between Melbourne University and F-35-producing Lockheed Martin and between RMIT University and Elbit systems. Rafael Advanced Defence Systems, Elbit Systems and an arms-related AI Centre of Excellence operate in Victoria with enthusiastic Victorian State Labor Government backing.  The University of Melbourne has expanded on its military research connections with genocidal Apartheid Israel by falsely defaming the  anti-racist Students Union as “anti-Semitic” [36, 37] and then adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism [36-45] that is anti-Jewish anti-Semitic, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, holocaust-denying [44] and has been rejected by over 40 anti-racist Jewish organizations [45]. Several other Australian universities have followed the disgraceful example of the University of Melbourne.

(10). Successive  pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid  Australian Labor Governments (2007-2013 and 2022 onwards) signed massive military contracts with Elbit Systems of nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel. In 2010 Australia bought an A$300 million command and control  system from Apartheid Israeli weapons giant Elbit Systems [46] but in 2021 it was reported that the Australian Defence Force (ADF) was compelled to remove multi-billion-dollar Israeli technology and quarantine Army IT systems over fears of Israeli “back door” spying [47]. In 2024 with the Gaza Genocide raging the pro-Apartheid Australian Labor Government provided a huge boost to the military industry of nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel by signing a A$917 million  deal with Elbit Systems [48]. Conversely, in 2022 it was reported in The Guardian  that Australia’s Future Fund had banned investment in a Israeli defence contractor over cluster munitions allegations [49]. Labor-backed,  nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel (it has 90 nuclear weapons as well as neo-Nazi Germany-supplied submarines to carry nuclear weapons-tipped missiles [50]) has one of the largest high technology armed forces in the world  and a huge high technology weapons and surveillance industry that exports to countries around the world [51-53].ICAN (2023): “The fact that Israel is a nuclear-armed state – the only such state in the Middle East – significantly increases the risks associated with the devastating humanitarian crisis unfolding in the occupied Palestinian territories, and contributes to regional tension” [54].

(11). The joint US-Australia electronic  spying base at Pine Gap in Central Australia is crucial for US nuclear strategy, global surveillance and for targeting US drone attacks across the world. Pine Gap is crucial for US nuclear strategy but is also involved in spying on everyone and for targeting US drone strikes on Muslim countries from Libya to Afghanistan [55-60]. Nuclear terrorist America shares raw intelligence on Australians with  nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel [55]. Pine Gap is a blot on Australian democracy and sovereignty [60]. Pine Gap  considerations  were intimately involved in the nuclear terrorist US- and nuclear terrorist UK-backed 1975 coup that removed the democratically elected Whitlam Labor Government from office [61]. The Pine Gap base is crucially involved in commission of war crimes by nuclear terrorist America around the world and by nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel in Gaza, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and the Muslim world in general.  Pine Gap and the adjacent city of Alice Springs will be vaporized at the commencement of any escalating US nuclear attack on China or Russia.  

(12).  The pro-nuclear terrorism Australian Labor Government rejected the Labor Party policy of signing and ratifying  the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The Australian Labor Party supports Australian ratification  of the TPNW but the stupid, ignorant, cowardly, pro-Apartheid Israel, pro-Apartheid and US lackey  Labor Government refuses to follow Labor Party policy and traitorously follows the contrary wishes of nuclear terrorist foreign states (the US, UK, France and Apartheid Israel). Ratification of the TPNW inescapably obliges  the States Parties to reject any actions that would support the development, storage and deployment of nuclear weapons “in any way” [62-67]. Labor Party policy is to sign and ratify the TPNW which came into force on 22 January 2021 and prohibits States Parties from possession of nuclear weapons or assisting such possession “in any way”. The Trumpist and US lackey Australian Coalition Opposition fervently opposes the TPNW. If the Zionist-perverted Australian  Labor Government ratified the TPNW  trade with Apartheid Israel (especially as at present in the major military area) would mean Australia violating the “in any way” provision of the TPNW [62-67].

(13). Under the Australian Labor Government Australian naval forces are involved with 5 nuclear powers in the biannual Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) naval exercises. In 2024 approximately 29 nations, 40 surface ships, 3 submarines, 14 national land forces, over 150 aircraft and more than 25,000 personnel are presently participating in the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise scheduled from 26 June to 2 August, in and around the Hawaiian Islands. This year’s exercise includes forces from the following countries Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, the United Kingdom and the United States. Of the 11 European RIMPAC participants, 3 have nuclear weapons, 4 “host” US nuclear weapons, and all  belong to nuclear-armed NATO and “endorse” use of nuclear weapons.The 3 European  RIMPAC countries possessing nuclear weapons are the US (5,244), France (290) and the UK (225) [19]. The 4 European RIMPAC  countries that “host” US nuclear weapons include  Italy (35 weapons), Belgium (10-15), Germany (15), and the Netherlands (15) [68]. By joint naval exercises with Apartheid Israel the Australian Labor Government is supporting Israeli nuclear terrorism as well as the Jewish Israeli-imposed Palestinian Genocide in the Gaza Concentration Camp.

(14). Contemptibly racist and inhumane Australian Labor Government inaction over continued nuclear contamination of the UK polluted  Maralinga nuclear bomb test site. Australia under racist and warmongering Coalition PM Robert “Pig Iron Bob” Menzies hosted the testing of UK nuclear weapons and missile delivery systems in Australia. Australia helped UK nuclear terrorism by supplying uranium, nuclear test locations and the Woomera base for testing missiles for nuclear weapons delivery. This UK-Australia program resulted in nuclear contamination of Indigenous lands of the Maralinga Tjarutja (Pitjantjatjara Indigenous Australian people) and of other lands as revealed by Australian journalists  Brian Toohey and Ian Anderson. One of the key test sites was at Maralinga in South Australia [69, 70]. Oleksandra Mamchii (2023):The Australian government agreed in 2017 to improve healthcare for Maralinga’s Indigenous population and veterans. Today, the majority of the site has been cleaned to a level that is safe for visitors, but some areas are still contaminated with plutonium-239, making them uninhabitable for the next 24 thousand years”[70]. As a biochemist  I worked with radionuclides for 37 years and taught university science students about radiation safety for 30 years. The key message is to prevent radionuclide ingestion and to shield people from highly penetrating radiation. Continuing  Australian Labor Government inaction over continued nuclear contamination of the UK polluted  Maralinga nuclear bomb test site violates these key radiation safety rules, and grossly violates the human rights of the Indigenous inhabitants of these dangerously polluted lands.

(15). Australia continues to fervently support UK and US nuclear terrorism, notably through the AUKUS Alliance. Use of nuclear weapons for mass murder of  civilian populations is the worst and most utterly obscene  of war crimes. The joint Australia-US Pine Gap electronic spying base is critical for US nuclear terrorism. Already Australia hosts nuclear-armed US warships and several thousand US soldiers. Australia opposed the UNGA Nuclear Weapons Ban. Racist US lackey Australia has been involved in all post-1950 US Asian wars, atrocities involving 40 million Asian deaths from violence or war-imposed deprivation [5]. The US-lackey Australian Liberal Party-National Party Coalition (presently in Opposition) supported all these atrocities and the US lackey Australian Labor Party supported all except for the Vietnam War and the Iraq War [5]. As far as we know, the child-, mother- and women-killing US last used nuclear weapons in the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 but there is well-founded fear by strategic experts that current major conventional wars involving the US (the war criminal albeit US-provoked Russian invasion of US-backed Ukraine and the US- and neo-Nazi Germany-armed Jewish Israeli Gaza Genocide that is spilling over into attacks on Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Yemen) might spill over into use of tactical nuclear weapons or worse. The US has shown its preparedness to actually use atomic bombs to incinerate 150,000 Japanese civilians in 1945. The US has killed 40 million Asians in post-1950 US Asian wars [5]. In the last 10 months US-supplied bombs have killed 186,000 Gazans including 136,000 children, 17,000 women and 33,000 men  while the World has looked on [11-15]. Through the AUKUS Alliance Australia is now tightly bound for decades to a mass murdering America that has the Means, Opportunity and Motive (MOM) to use nuclear weapons. Indeed as a UK and thence US lackey Australia in the last 80 years (i.e. within living memory) has violated all circa 80 Indo-Pacific countries, and has enthusiastically allied itself with US atrocities including 8 coups [71, 72].

(16). The AUKUS alliance makes Australian cities, ports, and military facilities, as well as  US bases in Australia, prime nuclear targets. In an accidental or deliberately initiated  hostility involving nuclear weapons, any escalating response would be carefully calibrated. In any escalating nuclear responses Australian targets would be prime nuclear targets before any attacks on US territory led to mutually assured destruction  and decimation of Humanity and the Biosphere. The Australian Labor Government’s craven support for US nuclear terrorism makes Australia a prime early nuclear target in any escalating nuclear exchange (Australian targets would be hit before any US targets). Australia should quit the AUKUS Alliance and replace a policy of complicity in US, UK, French and Israeli nuclear terrorism with one of regional alliances and non-aggression pacts  with non-nuclear armed and non-US allied regional powers (notably Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore and Bangladesh). Australia is not threatened by any of these countries  but is existentially threatened by its AUKUS Alliance with the nuclear terrorist UK and the nuclear terrorist US.

Final comments and conclusions.

Nuclear disarmament of the 9 nuclear weapons-possessing countries is technically possible but greed, cowardice and nationalism has so far prevented the sanity of nuclear disarmament. However sanity can readily prevail for non-nuclear weapons countries,  they have mostly signed up to the TPNW  and are not allied with nuclear terrorist states.  Australia should eschew any alliances with nuclear terrorist states but this has not happened because the Labor Government and Coalition Opposition are fervently committed to alliance with the nuclear terrorist  US and now through the AUKUS Alliance also with the nuclear terrorist UK.

This Australian nuclear insanity is enabled by massive lying by Australian Mainstream journalist, editor, politician, academic and commentariat presstitutes. Thus, by way of example, journalists working for the “quality”  9 Publishing group (that publishes the “quality” Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (Melbourne) and the Australian Financial Review) are presently on strike for better pay and conditions. I wrote the following Letter to  major Australian Mainstream media: “As a former Australian Labor Party member, Labor voter, campaigner for Mr Whitlam, union member and indeed former branch union secretary, I have great  sympathy for the just economic demands of  the striking 9 Publishing journalists. However I would have even greater  sympathy if their demands included freedom to report the Awful Truth that is currently highly constrained by Mainstream media gate-keepers from in-house censors to ASIO, the CIA and traitorous  Zionist agents of Australia-violating Apartheid Israel. By way of example, just some censored Awful Truths about the current Jewish Israeli-imposed Gaza Massacre include the following: (1) the 250 Israeli hostages are endlessly reported but ignored are 10,000 Palestinians in military prisons and the Occupied Palestinians in general (presently 5.6 million) suffering  57 years without human rights under  highly abusive military rule; (2) the top medical journal The Lancet reports over 186,000 Gazan deaths from violence and imposed deprivation, this estimated to include 136,000 children; (3) sustained  false defamation of anti-racist Jews like me by anti-Jewish anti-Semitic Zionists and Coalition and Labor  pro-Zionists; (4) the Australian Labor Government supports the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lies for Apartheid Israel in 15 ways (ergo put Labor last).* See Gideon Polya, “20 Ways Anti-Semitic Australian Labor Government Complicit In Jewish Israeli Gaza Genocide”, 5 March 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/03/20-ways-anti-semitic-australian-labor-government-complicit-in-jewish-israeli-gaza-genocide/ and  Gideon Polya, “Submission To National Anti-Corruption Commission: Australian Labor Government’s Lying For Apartheid Israel”, Countercurrents, 22 July 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/07/submission-to-national-anti-corruption-commission-australian-labor-governments-lying-for-apartheid-israel/ .” 

Sane and humane Australians will reject US and UK nuclear terrorism and put Labor and the Coalition last in Australia’s excellent compulsory and preferential voting system (voters must number all candidates in order of preference, and if a candidate fails to gain 50% of the vote then second preferences are taken into account).  But who to put last, the Coalition or Labor ? The neo-fascist, anti-science, Trumpist and effective climate change denialist and pro-war Coalition is worse than Labor and most progressive Australian would put the Coalition last. However Labor is actually in government, recognizes the reality of climate change, the evil of genocide and the folly of nuclear war, but as a cowardly, Zionist-subverted,  US lackey acts otherwise. The Australian Labor Government must be punished for its  betrayal of  Australia and Humanity through its world leading climate criminality, support for terracidal nuclear terrorism and complicity in the utterly unforgivable Jewish Israeli-imposed Gaza Genocide (186,000 Palestinians killed so far, including an estimated 136,000 children, 17,000 women and 33,000 men)[15]. Decent, anti-racist and informed Australians will put Labor last.

References.

[1]. Stephen Hawking, “Brief Answers to the Big Questions”, John Murray, 2018.

[2]. “Nuclear weapons ban, end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban  .

[3]. Gideon Polya, “Climate Crisis, Climate Genocide & Solutions”, Korsgaard Publishing, 2020.

[4]. “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ .

[5]. Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, Korsgaard Publishing, 2021.

[6]. US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  (NOAA), “Trends in CO2, CH4, N2O, SF6”, https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/ .

[7]. Gideon Polya, “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability”,  3rd edition, Korsgaard Publishing, 2023.

[8]. Gideon Polya, “US-imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide”, Korsgaard Publishing, Germany 2020.

[9]. “Report genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/reportgenocide/ .

[10]. Gideon Polya, “Racist Mainstream Ignores “US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide”, Countercurrents, 17 July 2020: https://countercurrents.org/2020/07/racist-mainstream-ignores-us-imposed-post-9-11-muslim-holocaust-muslim-genocide/ .

[11]. Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee, and Salim Yusuf, “Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential”, The Lancet, 5 July 2024: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext .

[12].Gideon Polya, “The Lancet: 186,000 Palestinians Killed By Violence And Imposed Deprivation In Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 9 July 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/07/the-lancet-186000-palestinians-killed-by-violence-and-imposed-deprivation-in-gaza-genocide/ .

[13]. Gideon Polya, “Zionist-Perverted Western Mainstream Media Ignore 186,000 Palestinian Deaths In Apartheid Israeli Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 15 July 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/07/zionist-perverted-western-mainstream-media-ignore-186000-palestinian-deaths-in-apartheid-israeli-gaza-genocide/ .

[14]. Gideon Polya, “Racist & Lying Australian & Western Mainstream Disappear 186,000 Gaza Genocide Deaths”, Countercurrents, 18 July 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/07/racist-lying-australian-western-mainstream-disappear-186000-gaza-genocide-deaths/ .

[15]. Gideon Polya, “Breakthrough: ICJ Rules Israel’s Occupation Of Occupied Palestinian Territory Unlawful”, Countercurrents, 20 July 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/07/breakthrough-icj-rules-israels-occupation-of-occupied-palestinian-territory-unlawful/ .

[16]. Gideon Polya, “Planet Doomed: No Decrease In Record GHGs & Gas, Oil, Coal, Cattle, Cement & Steel Production”, Countercurrents, 16 October 2022: https://countercurrents.org/2022/10/planet-doomed-no-decrease-in-record-ghgs-gas-oil-coal-cattle-cement-steel-production/ .

[17]. Gideon Polya, “Cowardly New Australian Labor Government Fails On Nuclear Weapons, Poverty & Climate Change”, Countercurrents, 6 July 2022: https://countercurrents.org/2022/07/cowardly-new-australian-labor-government-fails-on-nuclear-weapons-poverty-climate-change/ .

[18].  Australian Institute, “Coal mine tracker”: https://australiainstitute.org.au/initiative/coal-mine-tracker/  .

[19]. Gideon Polya, “20 Ways Anti-Semitic Australian Labor Government Complicit In Jewish Israeli Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 5 March 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/03/20-ways-anti-semitic-australian-labor-government-complicit-in-jewish-israeli-gaza-genocide/ .

[20]. Gideon Polya, “How To Free Palestine: End Apartheid Israel, Human Rights Denial, Gaza Massacre, Child Killing, Occupation And Palestinian Genocide”, Countercurrents, 2 May 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/05/how-to-free-palestine-end-apartheid-israel-human-rights-denial-gaza-massacre-child-killing-occupation-and-palestinian-genocide/ .

[21]. Gideon Polya, “Free Palestine: End Apartheid Israel, Human Rights Denial, Gaza Massacre, Child Killing, Occupation And Palestinian Genocide” , Korsgaard Publishing, 2024.

[22]. Matthew Knott, “US nuclear-armed bomber visits allowed under Australian treaty obligations”  Sydney Morning Herald, 15 February 2023: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/us-nuclear-armed-bomber-visits-allowed-under-australian-treaty-obligations-20230215-p5ckrs.html .

[23]. Christopher Woody, “The US Navy has its eyes on a new submarine base set to help it keep track of China’s growing undersea fleet”,  Business Insider, 22 May 2023: https://www.businessinsider.com/aukus-plans-for-new-submarine-base-amid-increased-undersea-competition-2023-5 .

[24]. Al Jazeera, “Australia to contribute $3bn for construction of AUKUS submarines”, 22 March 2024: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/22/australia-to-contribute-3bn-for-construction-of-aukus-submarines .

[25]. Andrew Greene and  Matthew Doran, “Australian nuclear submarine program to cost up to $368b as AUKUS details unveiled in the US”, ABC News, 14 March 2023: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-14/aukus-nuclear-submarine-deal-announced/102087614 .

[26]. Pip Hinman, “HMAS Stirling announced as a nuclear dump site, also for US and British waste”, Green Left, 22 July 2024: https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/hmas-stirling-announced-nuclear-dump-site-also-us-and-british-waste .  

[27]. Gideon Polya, “Rich Australia Ignores 100,000 Preventable Deaths Annually: The Cost Of Neoliberalism & Lying”, Countercurrents, 29 September 2022: https://countercurrents.org/2022/09/rich-australia-ignores-100000-preventable-deaths-annually-the-cost-of-neoliberalism-lying/ .

[28]. Denis Muller, “‘I don’t think, I know’: how 5 words from the French president triggered a ruinous run on Morrison’s character”, The Conversation, 21 May 2022: https://theconversation.com/i-dont-think-i-know-how-5-words-from-the-french-president-triggered-a-ruinous-run-on-morrisons-character-179755 .  

[29]. Gideon Polya, “Review: “Lies And Falsehoods” By Bernard Keane: Australian Coalition Government Lies”, Countercurrents, 10 March 2022: https://countercurrents.org/2022/03/review-lies-and-falsehoods-by-bernard-keane-australian-coalition-government-lies/ .

[30]. Bernard Keane, “Lies and Falsehoods. The Morrison Government and the new culture of deceit”, Hardie Grant Books, 2021.

[31]. “Scott Morrison”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Morrison .

[32]. Iain Boyd , “How hypersonic missiles work and the unique threats they pose – an aerospace engineer explains”, The Conversation, 15 April 2022: https://theconversation.com/how-hypersonic-missiles-work-and-the-unique-threats-they-pose-an-aerospace-engineer-explains-180836 .

[33]. Courtney Albon, “US, Australia eye joint hypersonics experiments in 2024”, C4ISRNET, 4 December 2023: https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/hypersonics/2023/12/03/us-australia-eye-joint-hypersonics-experiments-in-2024/ .

[34]. Gideon Polya, “Australian Universities Complicit With  Pro-Zionist Censorship And Genocidal Israeli  Militarism”, Countercurrents, 24 May 2012: https://countercurrents.org/polya240512.htm .

[35]. Vacy Vlazna, “Israeli Hawkademia in Australian Universities”, Palestinian Chronicle, 5 February 2012: http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=19268 .

[36]. Gideon Polya, “Zionist-subverted University of Melbourne Falsely Defames Anti-racist Jews & Non-Jews”, Countercurrents, 26 June 2022: https://countercurrents.org/2022/06/zionist-subverted-university-of-melbourne-falsely-defames-anti-racist-jews-non-jews/ .

[37]. Gideon Polya, “Uni of Melbourne falsely defames anti-racist Jews, non-Jews critical of apartheid Israel”, Green Left, 28 June 2022: https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/uni-melbourne-falsely-defames-anti-racist-jews-non-jews-critical-apartheid-israel .

[38]. Caitlin Cassidy, “Melbourne university first in Australia to take up controversial definition of antisemitism. International code adopted as part of ‘anti-racism commitment’ could be used to shut down genuine criticism of the state of Israel, critics warn”, Guardian, 25 January 2023: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/25/melbourne-university-first-in-australia-to-take-up-controversial-definition-of-antisemitism .

[39]. Guy Rundle, “Melbourne Uni’s new anti-Semitism guidelines are an attack on free thought”, Crikey, 27 January 2023: https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/01/27/melbourne-university-anti-semitism-guidelines/ .

[40]. Micaela Sahhar, Sahar Ghumkor, Jasmine Barzani, and Natale Ironfield, “The IHRA definition of anti-Semitism has no place on Australian campuses”, Al Jazeera, 6 December 2023: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/12/6/the-ihra-definition-of-anti-semitism-has-no-place-on-australian-campuses .

[41]. Gideon Polya, “Melbourne University Adopts Anti-Semitic & Holocaust-Ignoring IHRA Definition Of Anti-Semitism”, Countercurrents, 5 February 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/02/melbourne-university-adopts-anti-semitic-holocaust-ignoring-ihra-definition-of-anti-semitism/ .

[42]. Gideon Polya, “Zionists & Pro-Zionist, US Lackey Australian Government Threaten Australian Academic Free Speech”, Countercurrents, 7 March 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/03/zionists-pro-zionist-us-lackey-australian-government-threaten-australian-academic-free-speech/ .

[43]. Gideon Polya, “Melbourne University Backs Racist and Anti-Semitic IHRA”, Dissident Voice, 7 February 2023: https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/02/melbourne-university-backs-racist-and-anti-semitic-ihra/ .

[44]. Gideon Polya, “US-backed IHRA Definition Of Antisemitism Is Anti-Arab Anti-Semitic & Anti-Jewish Anti-Semitic”, Boycott Apartheid Israel, 9 March 2021: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottapartheidisrael/2021-03-09 .

[45]. Jewish Voices for Peace, “First ever: 40+ Jewish groups worldwide oppose equating antisemitism with criticism of Israel”, 17 July 2018: https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/first-ever-40-jewish-groups-worldwide-oppose-equating-antisemitism-with-criticism-of-israel/#english .

[46]. Yaakov Katz, “Elbit lands $300m. contract to supply Australian military Command-and-control system will be similar to Tzayad C4I system recently inaugurated by IDF Ground Forces Command”, Jerusalem Post, 15 March 2010: https://www.jpost.com/israel/elbit-lands-300m-contract-to-supply-australian-military .

[47]. Andrew Greene, “Israeli company denies ‘security rumours’ as Defence removes multi-billion-dollar technology and quarantines Army IT systems”, ABC News, 7 May 2021: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-07/israeli-company-elbit-systems-of-australia-removed-army/100121238 .

[48]. Andrew Greene, “Controversial Israeli weapons company awarded $917 million Australian army contract”, ABC News, 28 February 2024: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-28/israeli-weapons-company-awarded-australian-army-[40]. Bcontract/103519558 .  

[49]. Ben Butler and Ben Doherty, “Australia’s Future Fund bans investment in Israeli defence contractor over cluster munitions allegations”, The Guardian, 10 March 2022: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/10/elbit-systems-denies-making-cluster-bombs-after-australia-future-fund-bans-investment-in-it .

[50]. ICAN, “Which countries have nuclear weapons?”: https://www.icanw.org/nuclear_arsenals .

[51]. Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Palestine Laboratory” By Antony Loewenstein – Apartheid Israel Exports Surveillance Nightmare”, Countercurrents, 29 August 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/08/review-the-palestine-laboratory-by-antony-loewenstein-apartheid-israel-exports-surveillance-nightmare/ .

[52]. Antony Loewenstein, “The Palestine Laboratory. How Israel exports the technology of occupation to the world”, Scribe 2023.

[53]. Gideon Polya, “Apartheid Israel Among World’s Leading Countries For Militarization, Violence, Abuse And Genocide”, Countercurrents, 16 May 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/05/apartheid-israel-among-worlds-leading-countries-for-militarization-violence-abuse-and-genocide/ .

[54]. “ICAN statement on Israel and Palestine”, 16 October 2023: https://www.icanw.org/ican_statement_on_israel_and_palestine .

[55]. Philip Dorling, “US shares raw intelligence on Australians with Israel”, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 September 2013: https://www.smh.com.au/national/us-shares-raw-intelligence-on-australians-with-israel-20130912-2tllm.html .

[56]. John Menadue, “Through US base at Pine Gap Australia is complicit in US war crimes”, Pearls & Irritations, 22 December 2021: https://johnmenadue.com/through-us-base-at-pine-gap-australia-is-complicit-in-us-war-crimes/ , and

[57]. Steven Schubert, “Pine Gap facility essential to US drone strikes, expert called at activists’ trial says”,  ABC News, 21 November 2017: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-21/pine-gap-activists-face-court-in-alice-springs/9176350 .

[58 ]. Ben Doherty, “Gap a target as Ukraine invasion raises nuclear war risk, Australian defence expert warns Pine”, Guardian, 7 September 2022: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/07/pine-gap-a-target-as-ukraine-invasion-raises-nuclear-war-risk-australian-defence-expert-warns .

[59 ]. Peter Cronau, “Targeting Palestine. Australia’s secret support for the Israeli assault on Gaza, through Pine Gap”, Declassified Australia, 3 November 2023:  https://declassifiedaus.org/2023/11/03/targeting-palestine/ .

[60]. Brian Toohey, “Secret : the making of Australia’s security state”, Melbourne University Press, 2019.

[61]. John Pilger, “The British-American coup that ended Australian independence”, The Guardian, 23 October 2014: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-whitlam-1975-coup-ended-australian-independence .

[62]. Gideon Polya, “Nuclear terrorism: US & Israeli lackey Australia to violate Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”, Countercurrents, 30 October 2020: https://countercurrents.org/2020/10/nuclear-terrorism-us-israeli-lackey-australia-to-violate-treaty-on-prohibition-of-nuclear-weapons/ .

[63]. Jennifer Knox, “A historic nuclear weapons ban treaty is set to become international law: here’s what that means”, Union of Concerned Scientists, 24 October 2020: https://allthingsnuclear.org/jknox/an-historic-nuclear-ban-treaty-is-set-to-become-international-law-heres-what-that-means?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=427b6f8c3c-briefing-dy-20201027&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-427b6f8c3c-44714333 .

[64]. “International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Campaign_to_Abolish_Nuclear_Weapons .

[65]. ICAN: https://www.icanw.org/ .

[66]. United Nations Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 7 July 2020: http://undocs.org/A/CONF.229/2017/8 .

[67].  Gideon Polya, “Australia must stop Zionist subversion and join the World in comprehensive Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel and all its supporters”, Subversion of Australia, 15 April 2021: https://sites.google.com/site/subversionofaustralia/2021-04-15 .

[68]. Gideon Polya, “Gaza Genocide Complicity: 27 Nations Join Genocidal Apartheid Israel & US In RIMPAC Naval Exercises”, Countercurrents, 13 June 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/06/gaza-genocide-complicity-27-nations-join-genocidal-apartheid-israel-us-in-rimpac-naval-exercises/ .

[69]. Joseph Baronio, “Maralinga History”, ABC News, 1 August 2023: https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/maralinga-history/102657410 .

[70]. Oleksandra Mamchii, “Hidden Truth of the Maralinga Nuclear Test”, Best Diplomats, 28 December 2023: https://bestdiplomats.org/maralinga-nuclear-test/ .

[71].  Gideon Polya, “AUKUS & Quad In Context: Australia Violates All Indo-Pacific countries”, Countercurrents, 9 December 2021: https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/aukus-quad-in-context-australia-violates-all-indo-pacific-countries/ .

[72]. Gideon Polya, “Australia violates all Indo-Pacific countries”, Stop state terrorism, 9 December 2021: https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/2021-12-09-australia-violates-all-indo-pacific-countries .

Dr Gideon Polya taught science students at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia over 4 decades. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, notably a huge pharmacological reference text “Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds” (2003). He has also published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (2007, 2021), “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” (1998, 2008, 2022), “US-imposed Post-9-11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide” (2020), “Climate Crisis, Climate Genocide & Solutions” (2020), “Free Palestine. End Apartheid Israel, Human Rights Denial, Gaza Massacre, Child Killing, Occupation and Palestinian Genocide” (2024), and contributed to Soren Korsgaard (editor) “The Most Dangerous Book Ever Published – Dangerous Deception Exposed!” (2020). For images of Gideon Polya’s huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see: http://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/  .

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