{"id":881204,"date":"2025-12-28T00:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/28\/is-aukus-the-biggest-cover-up-in-australian-history\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T00:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:24:04","slug":"is-aukus-the-biggest-cover-up-in-australian-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/28\/is-aukus-the-biggest-cover-up-in-australian-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Is AUKUS the biggest cover-up in Australian history?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>\n\t\t\tBoth British and American officials are saying there are huge problems around their submarine construction programs. But Richard Marles refuses to even talk about AUKUS.\t\t<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/20251209172307616287-original.jpg?fit=1024%2C576\" alt=\"Richard Marles and Penny Wong with US Secretary\u00a0of State Marco\u00a0Rubio and US Defense Secretary\u00a0Pete Hegseth in Washington (Image: AP\/Mark Schiefelbein)\" decoding=\"async\"  ><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\tRichard Marles and Penny Wong with US Secretary\u00a0of State Marco\u00a0Rubio and US Defense Secretary\u00a0Pete Hegseth in Washington (Image: AP\/Mark Schiefelbein)\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<div>\n<p>The government\u2019s attempt to portray the US review of AUKUS as a ringing endorsement of the deal has barely survived a week.<\/p>\n<p>The review itself has not been released, and Labor\u2019s village idiot for defence, Richard Marles, has repeatedly refused to answer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minister.defence.gov.au\/transcripts\/2025-12-09\/press-conference-ausmin-washington-dc\">questions about its contents<\/a>, other than to parrot Donald Trump in saying it was \u201cfull steam ahead\u201d with AUKUS as he and Foreign Minister Penny Wong headed to Washington for their annual meeting with their US counterparts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Bernard Keane<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2025\/12\/12\/aukus-submarines-cover-up\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both British and American officials are saying there are huge problems around their submarine construction programs. But Richard Marles refuses to even talk about AUKUS. Richard Marles and Penny Wong with US Secretary\u00a0of State Marco\u00a0Rubio and US Defense Secretary\u00a0Pete Hegseth in Washington (Image: AP\/Mark Schiefelbein) The government\u2019s attempt to portray the US review of AUKUS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":881205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92187,171],"tags":[147099,5299],"class_list":{"0":"post-881204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-aukus","8":"category-biggest","9":"tag-aukus","10":"tag-biggest"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}