Mandy Seuss: "We Are the Public. We Are the Working Class. We Provide the Money."

Maureen Penjueli says "AUKUS forces us into a corner to choose a side"

Associate Professor Marianne Hanson: "I can see no strategic or political value. None."

Dr Don Brash: "AUKUS simply plants a target on Australia's back and hands the trigger to Washington"

Melbourne 5-minute Community Voices

Just Peace says the cost of AUKUS is not only billions of dollars, but priceless sovereignty

John Blaxland says "Australia does not have another five years to waste."

Bob Carr: "This is the biggest transfer of wealth out of this country in its history"

Bernard Keanne says the social licence of AUKUS has diminished through the secrecy of the government

Barbara Hartley (IPAN): "'Rotational' is a weasel word. It's a base."

Chris Gardiner says "AUKUS represents a rational response"

Yee-fui Ng: "We're not even guaranteed the nuclear submarines"

Senator David Shoebridge: "They have chosen to bring the front line of their war into Australia"

Senator David Pocock: "We're not even guaranteed the nuclear submarines"

Sue Wareham, MAPW: "This is wrong. We've told them it's wrong and they keep saying it."

Prof Charles Sampford: "We need to be able to speak out"

Col. Neil Greet: "AUKUS eats everyone else's lunch for the next 30 years"

The AUKUS Public Inquiry: "That veil of secrecy is what impinges sensible decision-making"

Adrian Pisarski: "That sort of money would solve our housing crisis"

Claire Moore: "Why aren't people talking with citizens about what the impact's going to be?"

Mike Pezzullo: "If I was a Chinese war planner, I'd flatten every single potential facility"

Al Palazzo: "The stupidest defense policy Australia has ever enacted"

Andrew Isfree-Irvine: "AUKUS equals intergenerational disadvantage"

Maureen Penjueli: "The Pacific has already paid the price of being treated as a testing ground"

Margaret Pestorius, Wage Peace: "AUKUS is like a multi-billion dollar feast"

Prof Liam Phelan says AUKUS "is morally reprehensible"

The Hon. Kim Beazley AC: "It Will Be a Political Decision Whether or Not They Turn Up"

John Queripel: "The wrong weapon for the wrong purpose at the wrong cost"

Michael Sanderson: "Australia's compulsory superannuation pool is now equivalent to 12 AUKUSes"

Cr Charlotte McCabe, Deputy Mayor of Newcastle: "Our silence is being treated as consent"

Doug Hewitt: "Every gun that is made signifies the theft of food from the hungry"

Andrew Wilkie MP: "We are shocked by the complete abandonment of proper process"

James Whelan: "Australian voters are not willing to accept the impacts and risks of nuclear power"

Digital Rights Watch: "A lot of consumer tech companies are also military contractors"

Peter Briggs: "We absolutely do need a capable submarine force"

Kim Sattler: "We owe it to the young people to actually get a backbone"

Sally Stevenson: "Women will pay the silent price of AUKUS"

Rowan Huxtable calls AUKUS "an appalling failure of the Government's duty to apply due diligence"

Cr Siobhan Isherwood: "With no consultation, no conversation, no cabinet brief"

Adjunct Prof Warwick Powell: "AUKUS is a mirror held up to the nation"

SCLC Youth Action Council: "AUKUS isn't preventing the arms race. It is the arms race."

Wollongong Against War and Nukes: "Will AUKUS keep us safe? Our answer is no"

Marcus Mariani: "To be an enemy of the United States is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal"

Charli Brand: "$58.99 Billion on the military. A mere $1.76 Billion on diplomacy."

Theo Bougastas: The first victims of war are always children. Always."

Cameron Leckie: "A maladaptive response to the end of the US empire"

Aunty Barb Nicholson: "This area is a prime target for enemy attack"

National Union of Students: "We can build universities or bombs

Malika Reece: "A community that's a target isn't more secure. It's less."

Ian Dunlop says AUKUS is "one of the greatest strategic mistakes Australia has ever made"

Peter Hayes, Former RAAF Group Captain: "I do not support this acquisition without prior validation"

Andrew Fowler says AUKUS is "a truly brutal act of self-harm for Australia"

Richard Yuan: "China is not an enemy, but AUKUS will eventually force it to become one"

Prof Jocelyn Chey: "Without any reservations, I think AUKUS should be scrapped"

Dr Alex Byrne AM says AUKUS is "the same cost as World War II"

Prof Toby Walsh says AUKUS is "a platform that will be obsolete by the time it arrives"

Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition: "AUKUS does not have a social licence"

NTEU: "Universities Are Pitching Themselves for AUKUS Money"

Maritime Union of Australia: "Australia needs jobs and health, not nukes"

NSW Teachers Federation: "A $368 Billion disgrace that benefits nobody but the United States"