Author Ex ABC TV investigative reporter, 4 Corners, Foreign Correspondent. DM Latest book Nuked: Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia's Sovereignty
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The story here is that Hockey fears losing a business opportunity. smh.com.au/politics/federal/…
Pakistan’s release of the agreement would answer this vexed question. theguardian.com/world/2026/a…
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Another journalist killed by Israel. Difficult to see how it’s not another targeted killing. No doubt Israel will ‘investigate’. aje.news/8zu5ip
Here's a short clip of the launch of Atomisé, the French version of Nuked, compiled by my friend the Paris-based journalist Francis Collings
The translated version of Nuked, Atomisé, gives the the French public the opportunity to understand first hand why the US can't be trusted.#auspol
💣 Atomisé d’Andrew Fowler vient de paraître.
Un livre-torpille qui révèle les dessous d’AUKUS et l’abandon de la souveraineté australienne.
➡️ À lire d’urgence.
#Atomisé #AUKUS #souverainete
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Andrew Fowler retweeted
On the back of lies, a constructed inevitability of future conflict and political ambition, Andrew Fowler shows how the Morrison Government might have put the future of Australia’s national security at risk.
#auspol @AndrewJFowler
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It's been a year since MUP published NUKED - but the reviews keep rolling in reminding us all of the catastrophic deceit of the Morrison administration.internationalaffairs.org.au/…
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It's not for politicians to decide. Unless you want to go down the Trump path.
It should not be for judges to decide when a political protest is justified. The decision to close the Sydney Harbour Bridge to facilitate this protest is a political decision and should be made by elected and accountable ministers - who as it happens, think the march should not go ahead. We are on a slippery slope when unelected judges start making political judgments.
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Here's an easy way to brief yourself on the $368 billion AUKUS fiasco. The book I won the Walkley award for is now available on audio. audible.co.uk/webplayer?as..
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Andrew Fowler retweeted
A story that has barely received any media coverage. Just the latest attempt by the Israel lobby to try and silence critical voices:
Now the Zionist Federation of Australia has filed a formal complaint against journalist Mary Kostakidis in the Federal Court after accusing her of antisemitism for her reporting on X/Twitter.
New from Declassified Australia:
“REPORTING ON WAR CRIMES IS NOT A CRIME”
👉 declassifiedaus.org/2025/04/…
Andrew Fowler retweeted
‘Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose—to help people.’
These were the last words of Rifaat Radwan, who filmed his own murder in Rafah. He was part of a Red Crescent convoy aiding wounded civilians. The convoy—clearly marked, unarmed, with flashing lights—was attacked on March 23, 2025.
For five days, the UN and Red Crescent were denied access to search for the missing rescue workers. When granted entry, they found 15 rescuers buried in a mass grave. The UN and Red Cross have called it the deadliest assault on their workers since 2017.
On April 2, the IDF stated that on March 23, ‘several vehicles were identified advancing suspiciously toward IDF troops without headlights or emergency signals,’ and their movement wasn’t coordinated in advance, prompting troops to open fire on these ‘suspected vehicles.’
However, the paramedic’s video, recovered from his body and verified by The New York Times, shows the convoy’s emergency lights were on, contradicting the IDF’s claim and proving their account of the attack was a lie.
Andrew Fowler retweeted
BREAKING: UK judge orders Crown Prosecution Service to fess up regarding the destruction of key official documents in the Julian Assange case.
The CPS has 6 weeks to comply or face contempt proceedings
| @fattoquotidiano @SMaurizi
Boycott this platform that runs racist crap controlled by the owner. It’s the best way to punish him. Ignore him.
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You have my support, Mary. Bullies need to be defeated.
Statement re CEO, Zionist Federation of Aus V Kostakidis
Six months ago a complaint was filed against me under 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act over posts I made on X sharing a speech of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. A number of highly defamatory and gratuitous comments were made about me by several parties around the time of that filing.
On 11 December I engaged in Mediation with the Complainant at the Australian Human Rights Commission.
The matter has not resulted in an agreement.
Consequently I have decided to post the following statement with respect to my posts of Nasrallah’s speech, the offence taken, and accusations I am an antisemite, in the hope that it resolves any dispute.
“I condemn antisemitism and racism of any kind.
I did not, and do not, endorse the content of the speech made by Hassan Nasrallah, which I shared on my X account on 4 and 13 January 2024. I accept that some of his comments may be seen as antisemitic but that is not a barrier to reporting them.
To the Jews and/or Israelis in Australia who took my posts as an endorsement, I am sorry for their hurt, distress and pain.”
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NUKED: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty
With @AndrewJFowler, @unjoe, @ElizabethleaVos and @CathyVoganSPK.
In September 2021 the U.S., U.K. and Australia announced a joint project to build 8 nuclear submarines for Australia at a cost of AU$368 billion. To conclude the deal, Australia had to scrap an already concluded agreement with France to build twelve conventional submarines for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) at AU$50 billion.
France, which had been strung along by Australia until the same day AUKUS was announced, was furious. The Anglo-Saxon deal has dangerous overtones for the Pacific region as it ramps up unnecessary tension with China, Australia’s largest trading partner.
A new book, 'Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty' by CN Live!'s guest, the journalist Andrew Fowler, is a tale of treachery, deception and dominance, while Australia’s sovereignty is undermined amidst manufactured tensions with China.
The subservience of the Anthony Albanese government to the United States in its continuation of the AUKUS project begun by the previous prime minister Scott Morrison, in which Australia will fork out hundreds of billions of dollars for submarines it does not need, in order to protect itself from an enemy it does not have, is at the core of Fowler’s book.
'Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty' is published by Melbourne University Press. It won a Walkley Award (Australia’s Pulitzer) for its author, Andrew Fowler, who joins CN Live! to discuss it. Andrew is an award-winning investigative journalist and a former reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)’s Foreign Correspondent and Four Corners programs.
Fowler began his journalism career in the early 1970s, covering the IRA bombing campaign for the London Evening News. He has been the chief of staff and acting foreign editor of The Australian newspaper. Andrew wrote 'The Most Dangerous Man in the World', the story of Julian #Assange and #WikiLeaks in 2011, which was updated in 2012 and 2020. Fowler first interviewed Assange for Foreign Correspondent in 2010, which won the New York Festival Gold Medal.
His two other books are 'The War on Journalism' (Random House, 2015) and 'Shooting the Messenger: Criminalising Journalism' (Routledge, 2017). Fowler is a winner of the United Nations Peace Prize, has lectured on journalism at universities in Australia and the U.K., and has contributed to various academic papers.
Andrew Fowler retweeted
Important story and history, largely ignored in the Australian consciousness, detailed by @AndrewJFowler in his award-winning @MUPublishing book, Nuked, and edited by @PeterCronau.
We're in another nuclear arms race and too few sane voices oppose it:
Nuclear weapons in Sydney and Melbourne.
Long before the present entanglements of #AUKUS, the US sent its first nuclear cruise missiles and a nuclear submarine to Australia -- it was a signal of an early 'pivot to Asia', which still has Australia in its thrall.
declassifiedaus.org/2024/12/…
Andrew Fowler retweeted
Nuclear weapons in Sydney and Melbourne.
Long before the present entanglements of #AUKUS, the US sent its first nuclear cruise missiles and a nuclear submarine to Australia -- it was a signal of an early 'pivot to Asia', which still has Australia in its thrall.
declassifiedaus.org/2024/12/…
