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David Pope
In March more details about the AUKUS pact were announced: specifically, that Australia would be sending A$4.6 billion (£2.4 billion) to the United Kingdom to help deliver nuclear reactors for submarines, manufactured at the Rolls-Royce factory in Goodwood, England. In David Pope’s cartoon, former British Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Secretary of State for Defence Grant Shapps, on behalf of outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, are as keen to take the Australian Government’s cash as Anthony Albanese, Senator Penny Wong and Richard Marles are to give it away.
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