Prime Minister Scott Morrison at a press conference after a National Security Committee meeting at Parliament House in Canberra.Mr Morrison will tell a Lowy Institute forum on Monday that defence officials have been tasked with talking to the NSW and Queensland governments on setting up the multibillion-dollar base at either Brisbane, Newcastle or Port Kembla.
"An optimal east coast base would provide home-ported submarines with specialised wharfs, maintenance facilities, administrative and logistics support, personnel amenities, and suitable accommodation for submarine crews and support staff.Scott Morrison, Volodymyr Zelenskyy speak as missiles supplied by Australia arrive in Ukraine
Defence Minister Peter Dutton said on Sunday he expected a decision "within the next couple of months" on whether a British or American submarine design will be used.The massive project comes as Australia faces what Mr Morrison describes as its most "difficult and dangerous security environment in 80 years".
Has he consolted the locals, does anyone want a nuclear sub base and target ruining the coast.
No it won't. Is just another 'announcement'. Plus, 'PM Stupidhead', will want to put it in the most impractical place possible.
Australia needs nuclear weapons, we have no where to flee if invaded other than jump into the sea ?
ScottMorrisonMP can’t even provide an adequate response to a natural disaster in Australia - even after a week!!! I don’t think he would be able to respond adequately to a war!
For crying out loud, this is just a convenient distraction from the floods & Govt’s inaction on climate change, lack of planning re prevention of flood mitigation & disaster recovery. We all know nothing will happen so why bother running with ScottyFromMarketing ‘s BS. auspol
Nobody gives two shits about these idiotic nuclear sub plans. Let’s see how many of our neighbours we can piss off before being voted out.
Scotty having plans is unusual, unless they affect his retirement.
Dope.
How is the mainstream news media this gullible, ignorant & unprofessional?! Maybe, use the skill of investigating the truth, instead of regurgitating Morrison's 🐂💩. MSM need to step up & meet ethical standards. Australians deserve that & so does our democracy.
Not only would this be a strategic target it raises questions of potential and real risks posed to ecological systems. Not in my backyard.
Total waste of money
Can this guy do anything right?
Phizer
More BS from ScottyTheAnnouncer
Every flooded marginal electorate can have a sub base
ScottyTheWarmonger
Why not spend billions on programs aimed at fostering peaceful coexistence with other nations instead?
根据总理斯科特·莫里森（Scott Morrison）宣布的计划，将在东海岸为澳大利亚和来访的核动力潜艇建立一个基地。
Monies should rather be invested in more necessary things than sub marines of which China has got plentty. Dutton's threat to China to send submarines to Taiwan is just a joke. Right now the Government has even not decided where to built them
No it won't you absolute bunch of flaming galahs.
Scomo your pathetic! Let’s get nuclear submarines base ahh yer, So quick to move on, forgetting the disaster in NSW and Southern Queensland. Where are thousands of people sleeping Scott, mothers and children, surely not in cars? Worries me! And Covid so 2021!!
I dreamed last night that Russian Nuclear Subs are sitting outside major ports around the Free World with Australia doing the Feather Duster thing, hiding its Emu head in the sand..
Otherwise known as the first place China might send missiles
In April 2014 Mike Baird & Andrew Constance announced “a consortium which comprises Hastings Funds Mgment & Chinese state-owned China Merchants” had successfully bid $1.75 billion for a 98-yr lease of the PORT of NEWCASTLE. 1. 2.
Lol FFS you would think our brain-dead media would’ve figured out Morrison’s word isn’t worth squat, and yet they keep reporting it as fait accompli.
Make the subs in Williamstown, Victoria!
No Nukes !!
on the coast of 'the shire'
Announcement CallTheElectionDickhead
You pathetic vassal. 100 billion can be better spent on the people of Australia. Not your world of HATE
How will they be armed? Bows and arrows?
In an election PorkBarrel to be precise
Of the rain doesn't stop soon, Scotty might be able to base the submarines at Lismore. That would bring enough money into the town's economy to pay to relocate the town to higher ground.
Why is he making this type of an announcement weeks away from an election?
To be announced in time for the election
Just CallTheElectionDickhead
MorpheusBeing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🦵🏼pull this one!
Another stupid idea from ScottyFromMarketing The swinging dicks are really swinging aren't they... oorah and all that.
MorpheusBeing it's not a plan, it's attempted vote harvesting.
When you look at events happening and threatened, around the world. Surely we should be preparing to defend our home. Not wasting resources on sports grounds and entertaining centres. Massive and expensive targets or missiles? The missiles get my vote.
As the east coast floods catastrophically our PM announces he will use an obscene amount of money to build submarines next decade on that east coast, rather than giving us a government plan to rebuild and help our industries repair and so help all those affected by floods.
An “announcement” with zero substance just feeding the chooks
Find somewhere else to put them, like up his ar&e.
An even bigger target on our backs
ScottyTheWarmonger to make Brisbane Newcastle Port Kembla nuclear targets SubsNotFloods great khaki election strategy MAPW_Australia Do you think that a superpower would hesitate one minute to take out a strategic base? Look at UkraineRussianWar auspol Greens latingle
that idea will be torpedoed after the election .
The guy who couldn’t/wouldn’t build quarantine facility, stuffed vaccine procurement and rollout says what? Pull the other fucking leg. ScottyThePathologicalLiar ScottyDoesNothing auspol
We don’t want it in NSW. Go away ScottyFromMktg
Another promise Morrison knows he can't keep. No city is going to embrace being a nuclear port, and the timeline of completed by 2023 is laughable. This is desperate measures to try and get some votes at best
Breaking news: Frydenberg just announced a submarine base for Kooyong. It will take sixty subs as long as they park between the lines.
Are any journalists attending, or just stenographers? Will Morrison be asked about climate change, where all the people made homeless in the floods will be housed, when the emergency fund money will be spent?
Its time for WA to break away from the East if we want to keep trading with China. The US is using our puppets to wage a cold war on China just so they can flog us more weapons. The US needs to learn that there can be another Superpower on the block.
Seeing yet another photo of Morrison trying to look like someone important the thought occurred, his penchant for taking selfies indicates that he probably spends time in front of a mirror practicing his expression. If only he could see himself as we do, FAIL!
Will it? So it’s a done deal with nuclear expertise & waste management UN protocols, finance etc all ready to hit the ground running? Move over carparks, bushfire relief, drought relief, flood crisis funding, nett zero etc as there is a new morrison announcement on the block?
No nuclear submarines or bases please ScottMorrisonMP . It is not in Australia's interests, perhaps your own ideology maybe?
nope just no
So that’s how they are going to destroy the GreatBarrierReef nuclear ☢️ leakage from visiting submarines. We have no control over subs from the USA and UK LNPDickheads IBlameLNPVoters
‘will be’. No, it’s just an announcement. What is actually going to happen is that the Commonwealth will be asking NSW and Qld if there any possible spots they would allow to be used. Just like there are no actual nukes subs, or even a contract- just a committe to look into it
jot_au Sub base on east coast- ready for when New Zealand turns on us! Ha!
What about the flood mitigation strategies on the east coast first Prime Minister ? PS. I'm including Premiers of QLD and NSW in that.
Totally obsessed with war.
1/2 Something everyone should be asking themselves if they haven't already - Why is ScoMo planning to build a Nuclear Submarine Base when we don't own any Nuclear Submarines? Nor are we expected to within the next 10-15yrs at the earliest,
The best video feed Scott Morrison can arrange looks like a 20 year old YouTube clip. Then again, that's where he's calling from - the distant past.
More BS announcements from the master BSer
Chinese operating Darwin port need leave, even if it's a symbolic decision as its clear China is no friend ? Can Australia operate a port in China ?
IF such a sub base is ever built, I suspect it won't be by the political party that can't even get its car park rorts complete. So, if you want a nuclear sub base, vote him out. If you don't want a sub base...vote him out. Simple.
More pointless announcements from our useless prime grifter! How about using our defence force to defend against our biggest real threat of climate catastrophes and sending real help to the thousands of people crying out for assistance in the ongoing floods! Absolutely pathetic!
Way to put our population centres in greater danger As a potential target and from accidents He's so bad at Governing
'Announced' being the key word. I think we all know by now it will amount to nothing. ScottyThePathologicalLiar
Turning Australia into the Ukraine of the Pacific. Great plan Scotty.
I would imagine they would want a port that's a blue water port. Would likely rule out Brisbane.
I don't agree.
So Morrison will push for a war in the pacific if he thinks it will help is re-election chances.LNP the fascist dictatorship of Australia and if you vote for him better fight for him in this war.
How about Byron Bay they could tunnel under the headland 😂
Reading through these comments makes me realise how unprepared - mentally - that the people who reside on twitter are for an inevitable conflict in our region….
It’s high time this government read the law be the constitution,every damn thing he announces is against both ,nuclear power …illegal….indue card not legal tender in Australia as it is a gift card (cannot be redeemed for cash and therefore not legal tender) …need I go on
Lets see how the neighbors like becoming a nuclear target 🎯 or a nuclear accident
DEFENCE PERSONEL WANT THE BASE ON THE EAST COAST IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH INTELLIGENCE TO THINK ANY ATTACK WILL COME FROM THE NORTH SEEING ONLY ANTARCTICA TO THE SOUTH DARWIN THE FRONT DOOR TO THE DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA SURELY IS THE PLACE I FORGOT SOME DOPEY BASTARD SOLD IT TO CHINA
Awesome. Scotty giving China a heads up as to where to point the intercontinental nukes…! LNPfail ScottyThePathologicalLiar
Prime Moron to AnnounceMo Future Nuclear Holocaust Sites
More B.S.
I see this ... and all I can think about is our environment and wildlife. What impact will this have on shorebirds, marine life, wetlands, ecosystems?
“Pick me pick me”
Ooh, a plan. Scott's good at those.
Another announcement. Really hope this one doesn’t eventuate.
On the river in lismore might work, should go scope out whats happening there ScottMorrisonMP
Umm... Any update on help being sent to Australia flooded victims? His own people are drowning and he's yapping on about things Australians arnt giving any thoughts to.
why is sbs hiding comments criticising the pm?
SBS news has become a Morrison town crier as well. Please employ some journalists rather than lazy Morrison stenographers. MSM services have become a tragic clone of each other. What is the point of the ABC & SBS if they only parrot the commercial channels?
We don't have any nuclear subs and won't be getting any until 2040 if they are on schedule, so is this base being built to assist American, Chinese or Russian submarines using Australian tax payers money?
New liberal (scare campaign) must be an election coming up, save us from the boat people or Chinese hoards . Reds under the bed!
The Port of Darwin was the only sheltered deep water port in Ww2 capable of taking the US fleet. Still is. If you ask the new owners they may let you build a base there.
ScottyTheAnnouncer And it's IWD2022 tomorrow Another missed opportunity to treat the women of Australia with any respect and actually do something ... not just make an announcement abt something else squirrel
As if! Name me the most recent things scott has announced that have actually happened, or are not decades into the future. Oh, I remember one! Needles in strawberries. That got a swift government response.
Add that to the list of nuclear targets from either Russia or China in a future war that directly involves Australian forces, including these submarines
..no it won't FFS!!!.. ..anyone who believes a word this pathological liar utters is living in an alternate universe.. ..SHEESH!!!... auspol
Yay for the East Coast. Who wants nuclear subs on their doorstep, that Australia can't maintain. Sounds like a real vote winner to me. As you were, Scott. Keep those great ideas comin'. NoNukes
Another of Scammos announcements which will never materialise? And people buy his cons? Jesus wept!
What, in 2078. More announcements from Scottythefukwit
Beyond a joke
Nothing to see here. Just ScottyFromRadiation announcing an announcement on his nuclear thought bubble.
Literally no one cares ScottMorrisonMP. How about you started caring more about people than profit
An announcement by the marketeer. For subs we don’t have yet. Despite ongoing floods, aged care crises, Covid-19 he’s going to try for the war vote. FFS
The base might get built but the Subs are a fantasy.
ScottyTheAnnouncer 🙄 Send disaster effected people the food, water, supplies and help they need! Give people hope for once in your greedy, selfish life! 🤬 ScottytheFailure
I don’t want nuclear subs or bases. We fought this and the liberals in the 80’s. he is trying to slip under the radar of covid. This again is about his backers not us. Time to stand up and protest just wear an N95 mask
PM Scott Morrison announces the finalists for the new submarine base today. Brisbane, Newcastle or Port Kembla. Who will you pick? Voting lines open at 12. ScottyFromPhotoOps ScottyFromMarketing auspol
ScottMorrisonMP you make me sick in your neglect of the people of Australia. Governments role is to govern for the people not your damn ego. AlboMP for PM btw CallTheElectionDickhead
A decade back. Another lnp grandiose announcement that they will build new dams? F forward Today, and one new small scale dam has come online. Scottsdale dam in Tasmania, a dam commissioned by a previous labor government! moremorrisonbullshit
'Scott Morrison to announce plan...' There's your problem right there. All Scott does is announce stuff that'll never happen. Then he disappears for a secret holiday, only to re-emerge to re-announce the same thing and then disappear again. That's all he does.
Another Scotty BS announcement. He'll be 93 years of age and 40 years unemployed by then.
How about starting with the National Security of our people in aged care.
Just an announcement, like every other. Although any nuclear sub base would be a nuclear missile target. Not in my backyard you don't.
It wont happen.
Fascinating how smart a COVID19 infection can be. It’s so smart that it can even distinguish between the weekend & Monday to Friday 9-5. Amazing how our Covid19 infected Prime Minister is right to go on Monday with his fear mongering campaign ScottyTheAnnouncer auspol AUKUS
Woke up by the rain the morning, was really worried about the flood. And this is the news I saw🙄
I thought nuclear vessels were not allowed to dock here?
A base for non existent submarines in an Lnp state.
Are you proud of these❓ Introduce nuclear reactor in AU territory Use Non-Australia technology To combat the threat in the other continent To fight the US rival.
Wouldn’t it make sense and be more useful if the nuclear power plant and visiting nuclear submarines were closer to the “perceived enemy”, and placed up north in Darwin, instead of down south where it would take much longer for them to reach the north to protect the country?
Coming to marginal electorate near you!
Ah yes, ScottMorrisonMP, the BathtubAdmiral. Expert on everything military yet never served, probably doesn't know anyone who did and wouldn't know a submarine if it sailed out his arse at sun up! We need to revert to two bases similar to what we had at HMAS Stirling & Penguin.
'A Plan' is code by the PM of SpinShitAlot for another empty air, non-deliverable wank auspol
Guess Darwin is out.
We will now spend hundreds of millions more, on an east coast target for the first missile, so we have a place to park the reactor powered underwater tin cans that will be used to defend us somehow from something but won't be delivered for a decade. What possibly could go wrong?
As much as I agree with most comments here, I don't believe people realise just how close we are to a possible war..Votes maybe......Needed definitely.....
This is insane
Hands up! Who wants a nuclear sub base in their State targets auspol
So making you a target for a nuclear attack encourages you to vote for that fraud? 🤣
maybe their first trip can be through flood affected NSW and QLD!
Subs will be great for when we need to visit loved ones in flood zones. Apart from the photo op of very clean AJs “helping” in a flood clean up have the feds actually done anything to assist those impacted yet? Im kinda more interested in that than another Scott announcement
Appeasement deal for NSW Liberal Party members ?
Oh good. An announcement. We definitely need more of those. ScottyTheAnnouncer
Oooh looks like a $10b spend to save some LNP seats. Someone’s gonna be lucky!
Here only to watch leftists fuming
Happy to hear it’s an announcement. By ScottyTheAnnouncer. Means it will never happen.
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