‘All talk and no action’: Concerns raised over AUKUS deal

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Sky News host Peta Credlin says “all talk and no action” seems to be a bit of the reality with Australia’s AUKUS deal.

The deal is a trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States which will see Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines.

“Concerns we haven’t seriously begun to upgrade the sterling submarine base in WA that’s meant to host of course nuclear subs in under four years,” she said.

“We haven’t started building the missile factory that’s been announced again and again and again.”

Ms Credlin was joined by The Australian Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan to discuss the deal.

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  3. The fundamental problem of the human race lies not outside of man, but inside of man. In a word, this problem is sin. What is sin? Sin is any lack of conformity to the holiness of God. Sin is any transgression of the law of God. Sin is falling short of the glory of God. Sin is going astray from the will of God. This is man’s greatest problem.

    To grasp the magnitude of what is wrong with everyone and everything in our world, we must understand the magnitude of sin. This necessitates that we are well-taught in three major doctrines: the doctrine of original sin, the doctrine of total depravity, and the doctrine of universal guilt. These three interrelated doctrines are addressed in the book of Romans.

    The doctrine of original sin refers to the result of the first sin of Adam: spreading sin to the entire human race and death to all humanity. Referring to Adam, we read in Romans 5:12, “Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man . . . ”. Adam was the channel, the passageway, by which sin entered into the world.

    Not only was Adam’s sin imputed to all his descendants, but the sin nature of Adam is transmitted to us in the moment of conception. Since the fall, it has been passed down from parent to child, and we have all inherited that sin nature. The doctrine of total depravity does not mean that all humankind is as evil as it possibly could be. Rather, it means that sin affects the whole person. We are born corrupted, poisoned, and polluted by sin. Our minds are darkened and we cannot see or understand the truth. Our hearts are defiled so that they do not love the truth. We love what we should hate, and we hate what we should love. Our wills are in bondage to sin, and we cannot believe the gospel in and of themselves. We sin because we are sinners and because we have a sin nature.

    The doctrine of universal guilt is displayed in Romans 3:23. The Apostle Paul says, “For all have sinned.” This means that apart from Jesus, every person, in every place, in every generation has sinned. Further, Romans 6:23 says, “The wages of sin is death.” This death sentence hangs over the entire human race. The entire human race is perishing. The entire human race is on the broad path headed for destruction. The entire human race is rightly and justly the object of God’s holy wrath, subject to the unleashing of the fury of His vengeance in the final judgment. This is the devastating state of the human race and the condition of the fallen world in which we live.

    And so, the question is, is there any hope? Yes. The Scriptures foretold that One would come who would be the second Adam. This second Adam came into this world, was born of a virgin, born under the law. And where the first Adam disobeyed by eating of the forbidden fruit, the second Adam obeyed God at every point. He was tempted in all points as we are, yet He did not sin. In His sinless life and His substitutionary death on the cross, Jesus Christ satisfied the vengeance of God toward those for whom He died, His people. In His death, He bought us with His blood. Further, with that death He set us free from our tyranny to sin, and He reconciled to the Father all those for whom He died. He has established peace between God and those for whom He died, and He shed His blood to wash away all of their sins and to reverse the curse.

    If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And there upon the cross, Jesus Christ, in giving His life unto the death, shedding His blood to make the only atonement for our sins, has purged the guilt of sin from us, and He has clothed us with His perfect righteousness. We now are presented before the throne of grace, and we receive full and perfect acceptance with God.

    If we take away the doctrine of total depravity in all of its fullness, we diminish the glory of the cross. But when we see the darkness of sin and the depravity of the human soul, we can hear the gospel of Jesus Christ: that He came into this world to save sinners. And we rejoice that God would have grace and mercy on hell-bound sinners like us and praise Him for His grace.

    This article is part of the What Is TULIP? collection and has been adapted from Dr. Lawson’s message at the Ligonier 2022 National Conference: Upholding Christian Ethics.

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  10. Australian Satanist and AUKUS preparing trained killers fully armed to do killing for them and their interest. Are you supporting the Satanists in power which are destroying your life… St.Thomas

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  12. The problem is Australia doesn't utilise its own people and businesses. Australia has the skill , know how and manufacturing capabilities to design , create and manufacture its own military equipment. Both Labor and Liberal new the day would come and Both failed to plan adequately for the future. Step up Australia!

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  20. All talk in the useless West run by a traitor Irish Catholic and Khazar Ashkenazi Jewish mafia as Iran, Russia, China, North Korea and Syria along with others move towards a major "direct action alliance." If there is a war North Korea will lead as the tip of the spear prod to analyse and react in response. I am never wrong.

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  22. This government needs to ensure all corporations pay their taxes in full and it should also immediately scrap the stage three tax cuts and use the funds that will be freed up to spend a great deal more on rapidly improving the capabilities of our defence forces. It is not beyond the ability of Australians to understand that we lack fuel reserves and don’t even have the capacity to manufacture our own munitions. This government must also ensure that it compels foreign multinationals to pay their fair share of taxes on the resources extracted from our soils.

    Australia's military is far too small to achieve the task required of it as it is vastly dwarfed in terms of numbers of personnel and equipment by all of its neighbours. How can we defend ourselves when we don’t even have the capacity to manufacture our own munitions?

    This is the result of decades of underfunding and neglect by our politicians who prefer to focus on quality of lifestyle type issues at the expense of fundamental matters of existence. Enabling this strategic apathy and negligence is the misguided belief that US military power is nearly unlimited and globally dominant and that it would automatically come to the defence of Australia should any of her neighbours attack her.

    The US is not obligated under the ANZUS Alliance to send troops or equipment to our aid in the event of an attack upon us. They are only obligated to engage in talks with us and nothing more. We must provide for our own defence.

    Our politicians need to explain to the public that rights and privileges go hand in hand with responsibilities, one of which is the defence of the nation. We need to introduce national service and link its completion by individuals to their right to access the many benefits of being a citizen of this country.

    Australia is an under-armed country that needs to spend a great deal more on defence than it has in the past. We need to spend our wealth on building up our military instead of allowing foreign corporations to sell off our mineral wealth and pay nothing in tax and, in some cases, even receiving taxpayer-funded handouts. Most of all, we need to invest in developing our own nuclear weapons capability instead of giving our wealth away to tax avoiding corporations.

    – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIIA2ve6fW4

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