The only submarine that we should be concerned about is the Chinese one that fired the missile into the Pacific just short of Vanuatu.

Our ‘tough’ government's reaction was a whine that the Communists, sticklers for the rules (not), gave only 2 hours warning, not the Hague-required 48 hours.

Nevertheless, let's have another ear-bashing about AUKUS that is still on paper, and very likely to stay that way.

Kampmark has never revealed the qualifications that equip him to hold forth on the subject of AUKUS and who should be running it. He's right about one person who never got past a plastic boat in the bath - Peter Garrett.

In the meantime, our useless government and bureaucrats should be concentrating on what Communist China has clearly shown what it can do to us, and what the hell we can do about it.