Marles, you pathetic lackey - No more US military in Australia!

Written by: Nick G. on 4 September 2026

Meeting with US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, the pathetic chief lackey of US imperialism in Australia, Richard Marles, has further sold out our sovereignty by welcoming a greater US military presence in our country.

“…since we've come to government, you can see a through-line of growing American force in Australia, and we think that's really important,” Marles said.

Marles has agreed to increase the American military presence in Australia by "accelerating force posture initiatives at Australian bases". 

“American force posture in Australia is growing. That’s across all the domains,” Marles told reporters. The “domains” are five in number: land, sea, air, cyber and space.

The Force Posture Agreement of 2014 permits the US to prepare for, launch and control its own military operations from Australian territory: “United States Forces and United States Contractors shall have unimpeded access to and use of Agreed Facilities and Areas for activities undertaken in connection with this Agreement.”

Addressing Hegseth, or “Pete” as he called him, Marles remarked that they were meeting on the 75th anniversary of the ANZUS Treaty, which he said “emanates from the Second World War, during which a million American service personnel used Australia as a base to project north…”

“And it's an example in the past of America's use of the Australian continent, which feels very pertinent today,” said Marles. 

“America’s use of the Australian continent”?  Who agreed to this today? We, the people, certainly did not. 

According to media reports, Mr Marles also met with a number of the world's leading tech companies, headed by billionaires collectively labelled the “Nerd Reich” by author Gil Duran, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft and Google while visiting San Francisco.

The federal government has been pushing to build stronger links with top AI companies in the hope of attracting US investment into Australian-based data centres.

Treasury estimates suggest the construction of data centres in Australia to be worth about $150 billion by 2030. To whom are they worth such sums?  Not to people unable to afford homes or food.

Data centres are attracting strong opposition from the American people and campaigns against them are growing here too. 

But the sycophant in Marles can only welcome such developments.

It’s time to clear the Empire loyalists out of their positions of power.

No more US military in Australia!

For genuine anti-imperialist independence and socialism.

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