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Labor Against War convener: PM running scared' from rank and file on Aukus
The Labor Against War national convener, Marcus Strom, says the prime minister is running scared" from the rank and file members of Labor, who he says don't want the Aukus deal.
Many of us hoped it would be put in the pile of bad Scott Morrison ideas but it was embraced.
And it's been doubled down on and this has been done without a proper conversation with the Australian people and today delegates won't even get a chance to remove Aukus from the national platform.
Imagine the jobs we could be creating in housing, in health, in the transition to a green economy. It's a lost opportunity for a Labor government and it could lead us to a war no Australian has an interest in.
We don't need to go to war with our biggest trading partner. It would be an act of craziness. We have a motion ready to go from the floor to strike Aukus. They are running scared from the rank and file.
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