{"id":343567,"date":"2025-12-12T17:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343567\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:17:13","slug":"is-aukus-the-biggest-cover-up-in-australian-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343567\/","title":{"rendered":"Is AUKUS the biggest cover-up in Australian history?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government\u2019s attempt to portray the US review of AUKUS as a ringing endorsement of the deal has barely survived a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The review itself has not been released, and Labor\u2019s village idiot for defence, Richard Marles, has repeatedly refused to answer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minister.defence.gov.au\/transcripts\/2025-12-09\/press-conference-ausmin-washington-dc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">questions about its contents<\/a>, other than to parrot Donald Trump in saying it was \u201cfull steam ahead\u201d with AUKUS as he and Foreign Minister Penny Wong headed to Washington for their annual meeting with their US counterparts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government\u2019s attempt to portray the US review of AUKUS as a ringing endorsement of the deal has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3402,8931,16638,3403,43,190268,44,3406,2545,99185,41,39,42,40,181221],"class_list":{"0":"post-343567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-aukus","9":"tag-auspol","10":"tag-australia-and-the-us","11":"tag-defence","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-naval-construction","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-richard-marles","16":"tag-royal-navy","17":"tag-submarines","18":"tag-top-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topnews","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-us-navy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}