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AUKUS and Australian sovereignty with Doug Cameron


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Former Senator Doug Cameron calls on the federal government to reject “warmongering” and abandon the AUKUS deal.

On this episode of Follow the Money, former Labor Senator for New South Wales Doug Cameron speaks about the Australia-US relationship, the “madness” of AUKUS, and how the federal government can prepare for peace – not war.

The 2025 Laurie Carmichael Lecture was delivered on Wednesday 10 September and presented by the Carmichael Centre at the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work.

You can sign our petition calling on the Australian Government to launch a parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS.

After America: Australia and the new world order by Emma Shortis and Dead Centre: How political pragmatism is killing us by Richard Denniss are available now via the Australia Institute website.

Guest: Doug Cameron, former Labor Senator for New South Wales // @DougCameron51

Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebonybennett

Show notes:

Australian Sovereignty and the Path to Peace – 2025 Laurie Carmichael Lecture, the Centre for Future Work (September 2025)

After America, the Australia Institute

Polling – AUKUS, the Australia Institute (July 2025)

Address at Chautauqua, N.Y. by Franklin D Roosevelt (August 1936)

Theme music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

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