Defence Minister Richard Marles said Australia had received the United States’ review of the AUKUS nuclear submarine partnership and is “working through it”.
President Donald Trump’s administration said in June it had launched a formal review into the AUKUS defence deal – worth hundreds of billions of dollars – that will allow Australia to acquire U.S. nuclear-powered submarines, and also involves Britain.
The review had sparked alarm in Canberra, but concerns were eased when Trump signaled his support for the programme in a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the White House in October.
In a statement by Marles “We are in receipt of the AUKUS review now. We’re working through the AUKUS review, and we very much thank the United States for providing it to us,”
The review was led by the Pentagon’s Under Secretary Elbridge Colby, who said last year that submarines were a scarce, critical commodity, and U.S. industry could not produce enough to meet American demand.
AUKUS is Australia’s biggest-ever defence project, with Canberra committing to spend $240 billion over three decades to the programme, which includes billions of dollars of investment in the U.S. submarine production base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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