AUKUS — THE WRONG DEFENSE PLAN
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Five years after AUKUS was announced, not one submarine has arrived and none will before 2032. A register of 175 documented holes in the plan now sits on this site, every entry sourced. This summary takes the twenty largest and sets them out in plain terms. They fall into four groups: the plan answers the wrong question, it cannot be delivered, its consequences cannot be undone, and none of the checks Australia normally applies to a decision of this size was ever applied to this one. The conclusion is not that the submarines are late. It is that the defence plan is wrong, and that it has never been tested.
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Background added here, not part of the post as published.
The register and the summary sit on the sister site, Modern Movement Australia: The Holes in AUKUS and the Australian Defence Plan and The Wrong Defence Plan. As at 19 September 2026 the register stands at 184 entries across twenty categories with 368 sources.
Where the party stands, and what we would do instead: Defence, Defence Restructure, and the side-by-side of every party’s position at Compare — AUKUS.