{"id":27012,"date":"2022-06-11T14:43:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T04:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=27012"},"modified":"2022-06-11T14:43:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T04:43:05","slug":"australian-government-to-flush-3-4-billion-of-taxpayers-hard-earned-money-down-the-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/australian-government-to-flush-3-4-billion-of-taxpayers-hard-earned-money-down-the-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Government to Flush $3.4 Billion of Taxpayers Hard-Earned Money Down the Toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Australia to pay $830million settlement&nbsp;to French submarine builder after Morrison government scuttled the deal in favour of AUKUS security pact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>The prime minister said compensation for subs builder is &#8216;fair and equitable&#8217;<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Scott Morrison ditched French-built submarines as part of AUKUS agreement&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Mr Albanese said the cost from the cancellation will total $3.4billion<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>He said Australia&#8217;s troubled relationship with France will now be &#8216;re-set&#8217;<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Michael+Pickering+For+Daily+Mail+Australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Pickering For Daily Mail Australia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: 11:01 AEST, 11 June 2022 | Updated: 11:42 AEST, 11 June 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/anthony-albanese\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anthony Albanese<\/a> has announced an $830million settlement between the Australian government and the French company whose contract to supply military submarines to our navy was cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Albanese said the total cost of the cancellation will cost taxpayers $3.4billion but will &#8216;rule a line under the contracts&#8217; with Naval Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;This is a fair and an equitable settlement which has been reached,&#8217; Mr Albanese said at a press conference in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/sydney\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;It follows discussions that I&#8217;ve had with [French] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/emmanuel-macron\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Macron<\/a> and I thank him for those discussions and the cordial way in which we are re-establishing a better relationship between Australia and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/france\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">France<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10905987\/Anthony-Albanese-announces-830million-settlement-French-submarine-builder-Naval-Group.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/quote-william-blum.jpg?resize=839%2C827&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27017\" width=\"839\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/quote-william-blum.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/quote-william-blum.jpg?resize=300%2C296&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/slavery2.jpg?resize=960%2C642&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/slavery2.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/slavery2.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/slavery2.jpg?resize=768%2C514&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/slavery2.jpg?resize=360%2C240&amp;ssl=1 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia to pay $830million settlement&nbsp;to French submarine builder after Morrison government scuttled the deal in favour of AUKUS security pact The prime minister said compensation for subs builder is &#8216;fair and equitable&#8217; Scott Morrison ditched French-built submarines as part of AUKUS agreement&nbsp; Mr Albanese said the cost from the cancellation will total $3.4billion He said&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/australian-government-to-flush-3-4-billion-of-taxpayers-hard-earned-money-down-the-toilet\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australian Government to Flush $3.4 Billion of Taxpayers Hard-Earned Money Down the Toilet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,151,769],"tags":[6668,4072,1078,94,977,3083,741,1733,4106,5116,954,43,5050,2903],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/quote-chris-hedges2.jpg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27025,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27012\/revisions\/27025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}