“The opportunity for our Navy personnel to learn from our AUKUS partners demonstrates meaningful progress along Australia’s pathway to acquiring nuclear-powered submarines,” Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said.
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“We have to analyse the world as it is rather than as we would want it to be. We have to bring our defense capabilities up to speed and AUKUS is central to that,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
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“We very much view this as a generational partnership, one that we’re leaning into, and one that we believe will help generate capability and capacity in Australia,” Eric Chewning, HII’s executive vice president for strategy and development, told a group of reporters.
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“As quiet work begins on Pillar I, and as traditional sources of resistance return to the driver’s seat of alliance defence industrial and technology cooperation, there is a distinct risk that any progress towards setting the optimal legal and regulatory conditions for AUKUS, particularly Pillar II, to function as intended will falter,” the United States Studies Centre report says.
By Colin Clark
Former Prime Minister Keating called the AUKUS plan a “deeply pathetic” move by the Labor Party he once led. He personally criticized Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Defense Minister Richard Marles for their roles, saying they were “seriously unwise ministers.”
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“Well, there’s one country in the region that’s undergone the biggest peacetime militarization since the Second World War and that’s the People’s Republic of China,” said Australian Shadow Defense Minister Andrew Hastie. “So they can make comments like they have, but it’s kind of ironic given what they’re doing with their military.”
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Australia faces “huge political risk in this, and huge costs. It’s going to be an extremely bumpy ride,” says Malcolm Davis of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
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“He is commenting on an outcome he doesn’t yet know,” the British ambassador to Australia said of Peter Dutton’s comments praising American, rather than UK, subs.
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March 13 is the target date to gather President Joe Biden and Prime Ministers Anthony Albanese and Rushi Sunak in person at one of America’s primary naval bases.
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Pat Conroy, Australian minister for defense industry, said former minister Peter Dutton is “either being mischievous or he’s not privy to the latest information.”
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“We need to leverage expertise from the United Kingdom and the United States to help us along our optimal pathway – and building capability with them means we are better able to shape, deter and respond within our strategic landscape,” Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles said.
By Colin Clark and Tim Martin Key members of the House Armed Services Committee pushed back at the idea that AUKUS could be a “zero sum game” for nuclear submarines.
By Colin Clark A letter from key US lawmakers has raised concerns about the AUKUS plan down under.
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If Australia needs US tech for its AUKUS upgrade, arms transfer legislation could get in the way, unless Congress acts, says key US lawmaker.
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