As of Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 3:38:42 AM AUKUS has cost Australia[1]
$19,535,885,568.29
With that money, Australia could have already...
Paid for 280,849,419 GP visits[2]
or built 37,334 social houses[3]
or eliminated poverty in Australia for 2.5 years[4]
or paid for 229,536,900 prescriptions[5]
or built 1,517 urgent care clinics[6]
or paid for 2.5 years of universal dental healthcare[7]
or fully funded public schools for 16.6 years[8]
or paid for 2.2 years of universal free childcare[9]
or increased foreign aid by 75% every year for 5 years[10]
or tripled the bulk billing rate for 9.0 years[11]
or built 521.0 kilometres of transport rail[12]
or flown Scott Morrison to Hawaii 17,136,742 times[13]
By 2055 AUKUS will have cost Australia[1]
$367,600,000,000.00
and we will have just 8 submarines to show for it...
...while people starve
...while people are homeless
...while people struggle to live
At the completion of AUKUS, Australia could have...
Paid for 5,284,646,348 GP visits[2]
or built 702,499 social houses[3]
or eliminated poverty in Australia for 46.4 years[4]
or paid for 4,319,116,438 prescriptions[5]
or built 28,540 urgent care clinics[6]
or paid for 47.8 years of universal dental healthcare[7]
or fully funded public schools for 311.9 years[8]
or paid for 40.5 years of universal free childcare[9]
or increased foreign aid by 1,408% every year for 5 years[10]
or tripled the bulk billing rate for 170.3 years[11]
or built 9,802.7 kilometres of transport rail[12]
or flown Scott Morrison to Hawaii 322,456,140 times[13]
Write to your MP and tell them that you demand better.
Or use the template below to let them know how you feel.
Dear [Member of Parliament's Name], I'm writing to express my opposition to the government's reckless spending on the AUKUS agreement and the increased militarisation of Australia. The hundreds of billions earmarked for this military deal could and should be used to address the urgent, everyday needs of Australians like me. Rather than funneling vast sums into an arms race that primarily benefits corporate interests and foreign powers, we should be investing in what truly matters: affordable housing, accessible healthcare, and robust programs to fight poverty and inequality. These are the issues that directly impact the lives of everyday people in this country, not an inflated defence budget that will do nothing to improve our security or quality of life. It's time we stopped prioritising the interests of the military-industrial complex over the well-being of Australians. The money going into AUKUS would be far better spent on tangible solutions for our communities. We need a government that puts people first, not one that perpetuates military escalation and neglects the pressing needs of the people it's supposed to serve. I urge you to stand up for your constituents, reconsider this misguided spending, and shift focus to the real challenges we face in this country. Sincerely, [Your Name]
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"if your militarism has jumped into the water together with its military budget, and if we are now expected to save it from the water — you are really expecting too much from us. Save your militarism yourself! Let it drown, for all we care!""Not a Man and Not a Penny for this System!", Wilhelm Liebknecht
  1. "The cost of nuclear submarines", Parliamentary Budget Office, Table 1.* Exact year-by-year or real-time costs cannot be calculated as these figures are classified as SECRET
  2. "FACT SHEET, MORE BULK BILLING FOR ALL AUSTRALIANS", The Hon Mark Butler MP. Uses cost of GP visit in city & metro areas
  3. "Public property developer", Parliamentary Budget Office, Table B1. Cost per dwelling $523,275
  4. "Increase JobSeeker Payment", Parliamentary Budget Office, Table 1, Option 1.* Assumes benchmarking JobSeeker against Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's relative measure of poverty is equivalent to lifting an individual above the Henderson poverty line modeled in "Poverty in the age of coronavirus", Matt Grudnoff, The Australia Institute
  5. "PBS Expenditure and Prescriptions Report 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024", Department of Health and Aged Care
  6. "Strengthening Medicare: 50 more Medicare Urgent Care Clinics", The Hon Mark Butler MP. Assumes cost of one urgent care clinic to be 
    total investment in new clinics / total number of new clinics
  7. "Various policy options for reforming Commonwealth subsidies of dental services", Parliamentary Budget Office, Table A1*
  8. "Fully funding Public Schools", Parliamentary Budget Office, Table 1*
  9. "Free Early Childhood Education and Childcare for All", Parliamentary Budget Office, Table A1*
  10. "BUDGET STRATEGY AND OUTLOOK, BUDGET PAPER NO. 1", The Honourable Jim Chalmers MP and Senator the Honourable Katy Gallagher, Table 6.4.1. Stated increase in foreign aid expenditure is a one time increase lasting the stated number of years and does not compound
  11. "Triple the bulk billing rate", Parliamentary Budget Office, Table A1*
  12. "Rail infrastructure project costing in New South Wales", General Purpose Standing Committee No. 3, Figure 3. Derives average cost from all previous projects
  13. Google Flights, Typical cost of return flight from Sydney to Hawaii
* Yearly expenditure derived from total expenditure spread evenly across forecasted period
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