Jordon Steele-John (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Over the past six months, we have seen a violent shift in the United States, a shift that should worry every single one of us—armed troops occupying cities like Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and Chicago; and citizens detained without trial and deported to foreign prisons. The President of the United States is weaponising the justice system and punishing his political opponents simply for dissenting. We continue to see reckless warmongering with countries like Canada, Mexico and, now, Nigeria. President Trump has even called for the US to start immediately testing nuclear weapons delivery systems. If any other country did this, there would be outrage from this place. These are clear violations of human rights and of international law, but, because it is the US, our government stays silent. They are more interested in protecting a political pact to send hundreds of billions of Australian funds to the United States through AUKUS, rather than investing in our hospitals, our schools or literally anything else. Our government clings to the hope that billions of our dollars will get us a handful of nuclear submarines. President Trump is not known for keeping his promises, just ask the investors in his failed businesses or the workers he has underpaid. It is time for this government to wake up, stop pretending this is normal, cancel AUKUS while we still can and— (Time expired)