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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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.
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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.
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“REPORTING ON WAR CRIMES IS NOT A CRIME”
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‘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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Now that Trump has packed out his national security team with America First MAGA people with dodgy credentials, Australia will need to think very carefully about the future of #5Eyes intel cooperation. More of our info might need to be #AUSTEO. #auspol edition.cnn.com/2024/11/13/p…
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It is unconscionable that whistleblowers are still prosecuted in Australia for speaking up against wrongdoing. Together with @DavidPocock, @helenhainesindi & Senator Lambie, I am working to introduce a Bill that will establish a Whistleblower Protection Authority. #auspol
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Big moment. Three months after his release from Belmarsh prison in London the Council of Europe declares that Julian Assange was a political prisoner in the UK.
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PRESS RELEASE:
Julian Assange to Address Council of Europe Following Confirmation of his Status as a Political Prisoner
On October 1, Julian Assange will arrive in Strasbourg to give evidence before the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) which is scheduled to meet from 8.30am to 10am at the Palace of Europe.
This comes following the release of the PACE inquiry report into the Assange case, authored by Rapporteur Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir. The report focuses on the implications of his detention and its broader effects on human rights, in particular freedom of journalism. The report confirms that Assange qualifies as a political prisoner and calls on the UK conduct an independent review into whether he was exposed to inhuman or degrading treatment.
Sunna Ævarsdóttir serves as the General Rapporteur for Political Prisoners and is the Chair of the Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights within PACE's Legal Affairs Committee. She emphasises how Assange's case is a high profile example of transnational repression. The report discusses how governments employ both legal and extralegal measures to suppress dissent across borders, which poses significant threats to press freedom and human rights.
Julian Assange is still in recovery following his release from prison in June 2024. He is attending this session in person due to the exceptional nature of the invitation and to embrace the support received from PACE and its delegates over the past years. PACE has a mandate to safeguard human rights and has repeatedly called for Julian Assange’s release when he was in prison.
He will give testimony before the committee, which will also hear the findings that his imprisonment was politically motivated.
The hearing marks Assange's first official testimony on his case since before his imprisonment in 2019. His appearance before Europe's foremost human rights and treaty-setting body emphasises the broader implications of his case.
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I’m pleased to announce I will be running for election as a Senator for South Australia under the Jacqui Lambie Network banner. Jacqui and I will be a great tag team, taking the fight to the old political duopoly and working to ‘keep the bastards honest’. #auspol 1/2
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🚨 BREAKING! 🚨 The truth behind the #SubmarineScandal that rocked #Australia! 🛑 Join investigative journalist Andrew J. Fowler as he dives deep into the deception, skulduggery, and national betrayal that torpedoed Australia's #sovereignty. 🇦🇺🔍 This is a MUST-LISTEN episode of The Focus! 🎙️💥 #AustraliaSovereignty #PoliticalDrama #TheFocusPodcast @AlboMP @stevegeorganas @ABCaustralia @Channel10AU @Channel9 @Ch7Adelaide @abcadelaide @DefenceAust @DefenceScience @ADC_Australia @ComdtADFA @ANU_SDSC @JohnBlaxland1 @ASPI_org @LowyInstitute @MofaJapan_en @JPN_PMO @japantimes @JPEmbassyAU @FranceAustralia @France24_en
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Even wars have rules.
75 years since the Geneva Conventions were adopted, find out about these int'l treaties designed to protect civilians in conflict & ensure people who aren't actively participating in hostilities are treated with humanity & fairness. ohchr.org/en/instruments-mec…
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'US sank French submarines deal & formed the AUKUS military pact to smash a new Indo-Pacific strategic alliance of France, Australia & India that wanted friendship with China'
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The United States sank the French submarines deal and formed the AUKUS military pact, to smash a new Indo-Pacific strategic alliance of France, Australia and India that wanted friendship with China.
...Read this revealing tale from Andrew Fowler's new book ‘Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty’.
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Never doubt! Have not filed a WORD on general subject of Olympics since strike began, nor even tweeted on it - bar this. Cheers.
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‘The French were fitted up, and dumped’.
Andrew Fowler, author of Nuked, on Australia’s blowing of its sovereignty, with AUKUS.
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Such a revealing book. Thanks for writing it, now it needs to be widely read.
