AUKUS

Key points: The AUKUS class submarines will be operated by both the UK and Australia, using American combat systems. One submarine will be built every two years ...

"Australia is one of our very closest allies. "The Royal Navy will operate the same submarines as the Australian Navy and we'll both share components and parts with the US Navy," he said. "This will be an Australian sovereign capability, commanded by the Royal Australian Navy and sustained by Australians in Australian shipyards, with construction to begin within this decade." From as early as 2027, four US and one UK submarine will start rotating through Western Australia, to be known as the Submarine Rotational Forces West. - From as early as 2027, four US submarines and one from the UK will start rotating through Western Australia Australia’s nuclear submarine program will cost up to $368 billion over the next three decades, with confirmation that the federal government will buy at least three American-manufactured nuclear submarines and contribute "significant additional resources" to US shipyards.

According to a government source, the submarine deal between Australia, the US and the UK is expected to cost between $268 billion and $368 billion.

"As we stand at the inflection point in history ... The program is expected to cost Australian taxpayers between $268 billion and $368 billion. The Collins-Class submarines will undergo works worth up to $6 billion to extend the life of the fleet until the AUKUS class Australia-made boats are being produced in the 2040s. The first step will be sending more US and UK nuclear submarines on rotation to Australia while attracting a workforce to learn to use the boats domestically. In the meantime, the Collins class diesel-powered submarines will continue to operate, and Australia will send increased numbers of submariners to the United States. Within four years Australia will be hosting “rotational deployments” of US and UK submarines in Perth, as part of one of the most ambitious defence undertakings in the nation’s history responding to the intensifying undersea arms contest with Beijing in the Indo-Pacific.

The first generation of AUKUS nuclear submarines will be built in the UK and Australia, based on the UK's world-leading submarine design.

US submarines will also increase port visits to Australia from this year with the UK increasing visits from 2026. Australia and the UK will both build new submarines to this design, known as ‘SSN-AUKUS’, with construction of the UK’s submarines taking place principally in Barrow-in-Furness. This includes in the Indo-Pacific where the refresh of the UK’s Integrated Review, published today, has confirmed the importance of increased engagement in this febrile region. Once they are operational, the UK’s new SSN-AUKUS submarines will replace our current Astute-Class submarines. This process will accelerate the training of Australian personnel required for them to operate a submarine fleet. As the home of British submarine building, most of these jobs will be concentrated in Barrow-in-Furness with further roles created elsewhere along the supply chain, including in Derby.

Today, President Biden, British Prime Minister Sunak, and Australian Prime Minister Albanese announced the optimal pathway for Australia to acquire ...

Australia’s modernization of its submarine fleet will be a multi-decade undertaking binding our countries closer together as we actualize this opportunity side-by-side. It reinforces our collective strength by weaving our transatlantic and Indo-Pacific allies and partners closer together in support of the international system that underpins these objectives. The AUKUS partnership represents a modernization of the longstanding alliances and partnerships between our countries, guided by a shared commitment to global prosperity, security, and stability.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are meeting in San Diego today where they will announce details of the ...

They are planned to enter service in the 2040s. Strengthening Australia's national security and stability in our region." "For Australia, this whole-of-nation effort also presents a whole-of-nation opportunity. "We will be increasing our port visits to Australia. We will be increasing our port visits to Australia." "Engineers, scientists, technicians, submariners, administrators and trades people. Meanwhile, China has argued that the AUKUS deal is in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, arguing that transfer of nuclear weapons materials from a nuclear-weapon state to a non-nuclear-weapon state is "blatant" violation of the spirit of the pact. It's also the first time in 65 years that the U.S. "This will be an Australian sovereign capability - built by Australians, commanded by the Royal Australian Navy and sustained by Australians in Australian shipyards - with construction to begin within this decade.," Albanese said. "We will have subs in Australia to help develop the workforce Australia is going to need to build and maintain its fleet. "A friendship built on our shared values, our commitment to democracy and our common vision for a peaceful and our common vision for a peaceful and a prosperous future. Albanese said the agreement "represents the biggest single investment in Australia's defence capability in all of our history."

A partnerships for the future, the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pathway will see Australia achieve a world-class capability.

It strengthens the combined industrial capacity of the 3 partners, with increased cooperation making trilateral supply chains more robust and resilient. Building nuclear-powered submarines will be a whole-of-nation undertaking, supporting around 20,000 jobs over the next 30 years, across industry, government and at Defence. [ Pathway fact sheet (PDF 624.98 KB)](/sites/default/files/2023-03/01.%20Pathway%20fact%20sheet.pdf) [ SRF-West fact sheet (PDF 419.31 KB)](/sites/default/files/2023-03/02.%20SRF-West%20fact%20sheet.pdf) [ SSN Virginia class fact sheet (PDF 344.23 KB)](/sites/default/files/2023-03/03.%20SSN%20Virginia%20class.pdf) [ SSN-AUKUS fact sheet (PDF 303.81 KB)](/sites/default/files/2023-03/04.%20SSN-AUKUS%20fact%20sheet.pdf) [ South Australia fact sheet (PDF 306.67 KB)](/sites/default/files/2023-03/05.%20South%20Australia%20fact%20sheet.pdf) [ Western Australia fact sheet (PDF 319 KB)](/sites/default/files/2023-03/06.%20Western%20Australia%20fact%20sheet.pdf) [ Industry and workforce fact sheet (PDF 404.62 KB)](/sites/default/files/2023-03/07.%20Industry%20and%20Workforce%20fact%20sheet.pdf) [ Non-proliferation fact sheet (PDF 671.14 KB)](/sites/default/files/2023-03/08.%20Non-proliferation%20fact%20sheet.pdf) [ Nuclear stewardship and waste fact sheet (PDF 505.23 KB)](/sites/default/files/2023-03/09.%20Nuclear%20Stewardship%20and%20Waste%20fact%20sheet.pdf) [ Collins class LOTE fact sheet (PDF 471.12 KB)](/sites/default/files/2023-03/10.%20Collins%20class%20LOTE%20fact%20sheet.pdf) The pathway delivers significant long-term strategic benefits for Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pathway will deliver Australia a world-class capability that will see our nation become one of only 7 countries that operate nuclear-powered submarines. Public report and fact sheets

Today's significant AUKUS announcement about Australia's acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines is the single biggest investment in our defence ...

- Australia and the UK will deliver SSN-AUKUS, a new conventionally-armed nuclear-powered submarine, based on a UK design, incorporating cutting edge Australian, UK and US technologies. The UK will deliver its own first SSN-AUKUS in the late 2030s, with the first SSN-AUKUS built in Australia delivered in the early 2040s. - Increased visits of US submarines commencing in 2023 and UK submarines from 2026, and, beginning in 2027, rotations of UK and US submarines to Australia – this will be key to Australian jobs, infrastructure, technology and our ability to be sovereign ready.

Details of the AUKUS nuclear submarine agreement announced today highlight the critical role the submarines will play in protecting and defending Australia, ...

"The confirmation that South Australia will build up to eight of the AUKUS submarines is most welcome. These are among the important issues that must be addressed to underpin AUKUS success. "The program will contribute to skills development in Australia on a massive scale.

'Rotational forces' of US and UK nuclear-powered submarines set to visit Australia from 2027 as part of landmark pact.

Senior Biden administration officials said the budget commitment from Australia towards the US industrial base was “another manifestation of just how serious and critical this effort is”. The three governments argue this is “critical to continue growing Australia’s ability to own and operate” a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines and to ensure Australia does not experience any capability gap when its Collins class diesel-electric submarines are retired from the 2030s. The United Kingdom intends to deliver its first SSN Aukus domestically in the late 2030s. The British-designed submarine “will incorporate US technology such as propulsion plant systems and components, a common vertical launch system and weapons”, an Australian government fact sheet said. This will be called “Submarine Rotational Force-West” (SRF-West). “Australia is a proud non-nuclear weapons state, and it’s committed to stay that way.”

From a dalliance with Japan, to an extended French flirt, Australia's now firmly back in the bosom of its Anglosphere allies during a meandering and ...

"AUKUS and the Quad pulls a North Atlantic focus on to an Indo-Pacific focus," Morrison told the ABC. Under the AUKUS agreement, Australia will receive "sealed nuclear reactors" for the AUKUS subs from the US, but be responsible for their disposal – which means digging a giant hole somewhere in a geologically stable party of the country and leaving the reactors there for potentially thousands of years. China already knows AUKUS is about them: no briefing required. To support hi-tech manufacturing and industry, AUKUS will require big investment and a reprioritising of the education and training sectors — and not just in producing more than 100 PhD-level researchers in nuclear science, but a bevy of electronic engineers, machinists, metalworkers and welders. The Chinese President views AUKUS as the next step in what he calls the "containment, encirclement and suppression of China" but this will not deter Australia. Combined, the US, British and Australian components of the AUKUS deal form a potent deterrence in the face of a vast Chinese military build-up.

The scheme allowing nuclear materials in Australian submarines worries experts about the precedent of safeguard removal.

“My fear was never that Australia would misuse that fuel, but that other countries would invoke Aukus as a precedent for removing nuclear fuel from safeguards.” Australia has undertaken not to acquire the equipment necessary to chemically reprocess spent fuel that would make it usable in a weapon. Early on in the talks, the idea was floated that paragraph 14 might not be invoked at all, and the nuclear fuel would be kept under IAEA safeguards.

It's been a big day for Australia–UK relations. Sandwiched between the release of the 'refresh' of the integrated review in London and the AUKUS submarine ...

No longer so much [‘down under’ as ‘top centre](https://www.scribd.com/document/56382420/From-Down-Under-to-Top-Center-Australia-the-United-States-and-this-Century-s-Special-Relationship) [’](https://www.scribd.com/document/56382420/From-Down-Under-to-Top-Center-Australia-the-United-States-and-this-Century-s-Special-Relationship), Australia will remain critical to France, irrespective of AUKUS, if Paris is to secure its own regional interests. Australia is expected to acquire a minimum of three and maximum of five Virginia-class submarines from the US to undertake patrols until a more permanent arrangement can be implemented. British and American nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) will now be forward-deployed to Fleet Base West in Western Australia ‘as early as 2027’—a quick win for AUKUS that will enhance the efforts of both the US and UK in maintaining a stable Indo-Pacific and equipping the Royal Australian Navy with the necessary know-how to operate SSNs. This makes it the European Union’s only true Indo-Pacific power, and one that Australia will want to engage with. With resolution and careful diplomacy, they can foster an Indo-Pacific that is ‘ [close contact with regional partners](https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/pm-mounts-diplomatic-blitz-to-calm-aukus-fears-20230313-p5crj6), and he will visit Fiji on his way back from San Diego. This more permanent arrangement will involve Australia’s buying into the UK’s program to build the Royal Navy’s next generation of SSNs, which are already being described as ‘SSN AUKUS’. Shaping the international order is now the central goal of UK foreign policy. That Australia occupies such a significant place in Britain’s refresh is indicative of the new thinking in London. Despite their oft-cited shared history and worldview, Australia and the UK diverged throughout much of the Cold War era as the UK doubled down on containing the Soviet threat. However, it’s now clear that the deteriorating geopolitical environment—characterised by Russia’s war against Ukraine in the Euro-Atlantic and especially China’s increasing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific—is drawing them back together. The integrated review refresh christens the emergence of an ‘Atlantic–Pacific’ theatre.

Australia will be forced to deal with nuclear waste on home soil. AUKUS leaders announce interim plans for Australian submarine capability. Anthony Albanese has ...

The program is set to cost Australian taxpayers between $268 billion and $368 billion by the mid-2050s. But Australia will be forced to deal with its new fleet's nuclear waste on home soil. That's set to reach $50-58 billion within a decade. It’s envisaged one vessel, to be equipped with a US vertical launch system, will be produced every three years. At present, Australia doesn't have any high-grade nuclear waste disposal sites. The waste will be stored on a Defence-run site, to be decided this year.

Eighteen months after signing the AUKUS pact, Australia has announced its biggest military spending since World War II. How will it work?

[by the water in San Diego](/link/follow-20170101-p5crtt), US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy summed up the AUKUS gambit this way: “It’s historic for Australia because the US is sharing our most sensitive technology ... Marles has spoken of a huge diplomatic effort behind the scenes, involving 60 phone calls between government ministers and leaders in the Pacific, ASEAN and the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing partnership (and to France). (Marles has said the differences between the Virginias and the new AUKUS ships won’t be insurmountable, and “crossovers” between models have been managed before.) But Congress will still need to sign off on the unprecedented sale of US subs to its ally. From then on, one sub is expected to be built every two years in Australia until the late 2050s, giving us eight in total (in addition to the Virginias). (Virginia-class subs have a life of about 33 years, suggesting the ship will be a decade old when it comes to Australia.) Treasurer Jim Chalmer has acknowledged the project is a big cost, but has said the Labor government is being more upfront on the figures than the Coalition was on its own French subs deal by factoring in the additional cost of training too. First, the US will sell Australia three Virginia-class submarines to arrive in the early 2030s, and up to two more if required, Biden confirmed. But the rise of China in the Pacific – its militarisation of the South China Sea – has changed the calculus in Washington. And it’s part of a high-stakes plan to help the US counter Chinese aggression in the Asia-Pacific that will soon see Australia regularly host American and British nuclear subs in its waters. “You really have to be in the right place at the right time to catch them,” says Blaxland. [as far into the Indo-Pacific](/link/follow-20170101-p58hku) as the South China Sea and the East China Sea.

Key points: Vice Admiral Jonathan Mead says our region has become "less stable, more fragile"; He says design of the new SSN-AUKUS submarine is well advanced ...

This follows concern from senior US politicians that the domestic industry would be compromised if it had to supply submarines to another country. "They've operated over 500 nuclear reactors in 70 years. "We're certainly working with the US and UK right now to embed people," Vice Admiral Mead said. "We will uphold the highest standards of safety — safety of the crew, safety of the community, protection of the environment," Vice Admiral Mead said. "We currently have sailors and officers undergoing nuclear reactor training in the US and UK right now." Asked if Australia had needed to buy US support with "cold hard cash," Vice Admiral Mead said Congress was "looking for our commitment to be part of a trilateral partnership". As part of the AUKUS deal, Australia will pay the US and the UK $3 billion over the next four years to support the countries' domestic production pipelines. He added that the nuclear reactors which power the submarines will be "welded, shielded and sealed" — not to be opened over the three-decade life spans of the boats. Vice Admiral Mead said Australia was up to the task of building its own nuclear-powered boat and the design work was well advanced. "We recognise that there has been reclamation of land in the South China Sea and the military modernisation of islands there," Vice Admiral Mead said. Asked why Australia would introduce another class of submarine into its fleet beyond the Virginia class, potentially introducing extra complexity and cost, Vice Admiral Mead said: "The US are ceasing production of the Virginia-class submarine in the early 2040s. "The government made a clear decision that the region had changed, it had changed for the worse," Vice Admiral Jonathan Mead told

Embedded personnel and port visits: Australian military and civilian personnel will embed with the the allies' navies. US nuclear-powered submarines will ...

Ican urged Australia to sign the UN treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons: the ban Ican has championed and to which 68 states around the world are now a party. The government forecasts 8,500 will be directly employed in Australia’s building and servicing of the submarines, including scientists, engineers, project managers, construction workers, electricians, fitters and builders. SSN-Aukus: A combination of UK submarine design and US defence technology will contribute to the development of the new SSN-Aukus submarine – intended as the future attack submarine for both the UK and Australia. They will arrive from either the UK or US in a welded power unit and will not require refuelling during their expected lifetime. Both Australia and the UK intend to start building SSN-Aukus submarines in their domestic shipyards before the end of this decade. Paragraph 14 allows fissile material utilised for non-explosive military use, like naval propulsion, to be exempt from inspections and monitoring by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. From 2027 the UK and the US plan to rotate their nuclear-powered submarines through HMAS Stirling near Perth as part of a push to step up training of Australians. “This includes radioactive waste with lower levels of radioactivity generated by day-to-day submarine operations and maintenance,” a government fact sheet says. Australia has said it will not enrich uranium or reprocess any spent fuel from the submarines. “Australia is a proud non-nuclear weapons state and it’s committed to stay that way. The current fleet of Collins class conventional submarines are expected to lose their edge from the 2030s. US nuclear-powered submarines will increase their visits to Australian ports, with Australian sailors joining US crews for training.

US president Joe Biden, Australia's prime minister Anthony Albanese and UK prime minister Rishi Sunak met in San Diego, California, on Monday to unveil the ...

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Beijing accuses US, UK and Australia of disregarding global concerns with plan to build nuclear-powered vessels.

Analysts quoted in Chinese state media said it was an “expensive mistake”. China said it was a meteorological monitoring device that had blown off course, but the US rejected that claim and cancelled a long-awaited trip by Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, to Beijing. On Monday Xi closed China’s annual parliamentary session with a speech in which It said the deal was a “textbook case of double standard”. Relations between China and the US are at their lowest in decades. Penny Wong, Australia’s foreign minister, said the Chinese criticism

China is bolstering its diplomatic clout, protecting its economy and ramping up its military as it confronts two blocs designed to contain it.

[Eryk Bagshaw](/by/eryk-bagshaw-hvf7y)is the North Asia correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.Connect via “The Chinese nation has stood up, become rich and is becoming strong.” Raisi said he was ready to share his experience of dealing with sanctions with “friendly Belarus”, a country that has spent the past year supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Xi is preoccupied with the internal protection of his ideology, power and by extension the Chinese economy. “It cannot protect the security of Australia but will protect the global hegemony of the US. Australia – by intention and geographical circumstance – has found itself in the middle of both.

I also received separate communications on this matter from the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Anthony Albanese MP, and the Foreign Minister, the Hon ...

- I will keep the Board of Governors and Member States of the IAEA informed of our future work as the discussions with the AUKUS Parties continue following Australia’s notification of its intention to commence negotiations with the Agency on an arrangement under Article 14. They also committed to maintaining the strength of the global nuclear non-proliferation regime and to fulfilling the non-proliferation and safeguards obligations under their respective agreements with the Agency. - In a letter addressed to me, Foreign Minister Wong has formally requested the Agency to commence negotiations on an arrangement required under Article 14 of Australia’s CSA. - The United Kingdom and the United States are nuclear-weapons States party to the NPT and have each concluded with the Agency a voluntary offer safeguards agreement (VOA) and an AP thereto. Under the CSA, the Agency has the right and obligation to apply safeguards to all nuclear material in all peaceful nuclear activities within the territory of Australia, under its jurisdiction or carried out under its control anywhere, for the exclusive purpose of verifying that such material is not diverted to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. - An announcement has been made by Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States (the AUKUS Parties) on Australia’s acquisition of conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarines.

Former prime minister Scott Morrison says that the changing situation in the Indo-Pacific region, including China's military ambitions, were leading factors ...

Asked again if he would describe it as immoral, Mr Morrison said: "I think the idea of ensuring the taxpayers' money which is paid is done properly is the principle. "That's not a reflection on those previous governments. "I believe that certainly the legality of the issue has been settled and had that been raised with the government at the time Robodebt would never have happened," Mr Morrison said. Asked if cabinet solidarity extended to misleading the public, Mr Morrison said: "Well you'd have to raise that with Stuart." Asked if China's rapid military expansion had prompted the United States to say yes, Mr Morrison said: "It was a combination of events but that was certainly at the top of the list." Mr Morrison said that in 2021, as he was considering whether to push forward with the nuclear submarine plan, he was not contemplating a potential war with China to be fought alongside the US. "It is true, other than the defence minister and the foreign minister," Mr Morrison said. "There had been since 2016, even in that short period of time, a very significant shift in the strategic situation in the Indo-Pacific," he said. Eighteen months after he announced "AUKUS is born", Mr Morrison agreed in an interview with 7.30 that he might well be described as "the father" of the agreement. - On Robodebt, Mr Morrison said: "The outcome was very different from what was intended" - Scott Morrison says the shift in the strategic situation in the Indo-Pacific made the diesel-powered subs Australia had agreed to purchase from France "effectively obsolete" Former prime minister Scott Morrison says China's rapid military build-up was at "the top of the list" of factors driving the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal he brokered in deep secrecy with the United States and the United Kingdom.

Singapore/Jakarta: A senior Indonesian official says the country's sea lanes should not be used by Australian nuclear-propelled submarines because “AUKUS ...

“The nuclear fuel for the subs is of weapons grade.” It is not a [forum] for training, it is like a defence pact, just like NATO but of a smaller scale, [created] to face the Chinese activities in the Pacific. [Sign up for the weekly What in the World newsletter here](https://www.smh.com.au/link/follow-20170101-p56l7u). Hasanuddin, a retired two-star army general, added in an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age: “As long [as vessels are] made not for war, it is no problem. “It definitely is related head-to-head [rivalry] with the Chinese maritime powers. It is critical for all countries to be a part of this effort.

The Pathway will see the construction and delivery of SSN-AUKUS as an enduring SSN capability for Australia and the UK – incorporating technology from all three ...

The UK intends to deliver its first SSN-AUKUS as early as the late 2030s. The UK and the US will use their extensive experience in safely constructing, operating, maintaining and disposing of SSNs to assist Australia in achieving those milestones. The Pathway will see the construction and delivery of SSN-AUKUS as an enduring SSN capability for Australia and the UK – incorporating technology from all three nations, including cutting edge US submarine technologies.

Technical risks abound in multi-decade plan for Australia to obtain nuclear-powered submarines. There are plenty of political ones too.

The calculation is that such military action would be highly destructive to the region as a whole. That is a long way off, so the US and the UK will start rotational deployments of their nuclear-powered submarines to Western Australia from 2027. Australia is betting (or hoping) that the Aukus deal will The Australian government has been unequivocal that the Australian submarines will be under Australia’s command and control – and only deployed based on sovereign decisions in Canberra. Most of this spending is beyond the first four-year budget period, and the government plays down the cost by saying it equates to 0.15% of gross domestic product a year on average. The Australian government was out and about on Tuesday promoting the opportunities created by Aukus: potentially thousands of jobs in the long term, a boost to science and tech knowhow, and the revival of domestic manufacturing. This could well be politically unpalatable at a time of budget pressures, but Canberra considers this a necessary downpayment towards the US being prepared to sell at least three (and as many as five) of its Virginia class submarines to Australia in the 2030s. Construction is meant to start by the end of this decade, but the first of these Australian-built boats is not likely to be ready for the Royal Australian Navy until the 2040s onwards. That deal, known then as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, was meant to set the “rules of the road” rather than leaving it to China to do so; now China wants to join the rebadged CPTPP. He is reassured by the approach taken by Joe Biden’s administration – but maybe the only sure thing in It was also an “unpredictable” US, he wrote then, that posed difficulties for its allies in the region. But the pause seemed to betray an understanding of just one of many risks surrounding the Aukus gambit, which also requires ongoing British support under the three-country deal.

BAE Systems will play a key role in helping Australia to acquire its first nuclear-powered submarines.

Australia and the UK will operate SSN-AUKUS, as their submarines of the future, with construction expected to begin this decade. On September 15th, 2021, a trilateral security agreement called AUKUS was announced for the Indo-Pacific region. The pact includes Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

There you are. And thank you for hosting us at Naval Base of Point Loma. And I also want to thank Representative Joe Courtney, founder of the bipartisan AUKUS ...

For the first time ever, it will mean three fleets of submarines working together across both the Atlantic and Pacific, keeping our oceans free, open, and prosperous for decades to come. Because what the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia hold in common is more fundamental and more universal than our shared histories. They will communicate using the same terminology and the same equipment. The Royal Navy will operate the same submarines as the Australian Navy, and we will both share components and parts with the U.S. Good jobs with good wages, working to ensure the stability and prosperity of our nations, our region, and, indeed, our world. All three nations stand ready to contribute, and all three nations stand ready to benefit. This will be an Australian sovereign capability, built by Australians, commanded by the Royal Australian Navy, and sustained by Australian workers in Australian shipyards with construction to begin this decade. This is the first time in 65 years and only the second time in history that the United States has shared its nuclear propulsion technology. More partnerships and more potential, more peace and security in the region lies ahead. It will become a future standard for both the UK Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy. And excuse me for a point of personal privilege — as they say in the United States Senate, where I’ve spent a lot of time — these submarines hold a special place for the Bidens. And it’s my honor to welcome you both to the United States as we take the next critical step in advancing the Australia, U.S., UK partnership — AUKUS.

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, JOESEPH BIDEN: It's an honour to be here to welcome Prime Minister Albanese and Prime Minister Sunak.

And for our part, the UK comes to this with over 60 years’ experience of running our own fleet. We will continue to adhere to all of our obligations under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and the Treaty of Rarotonga. For the first time, the United Kingdom will move away from our baseline commitment to spend 2 per cent of GDP on defence, to a new ambition of 2.5 per cent, putting beyond doubt that the United Kingdom is and will remain one of the world's leading defence powers. For the first time ever, it will mean three fleets of submarines working together across both the Atlantic and Pacific, keeping our oceans free, open, and prosperous for decades to come. With optimism in the power of what our partnership can achieve, and with an unwavering conviction that whatever the challenges ahead, the cause of peace and freedom that we share will prevail. Good jobs with good wages, working to ensure the stability and prosperity of our nations, our region, and indeed our world. We are bound above all by our belief in a world where the sovereignty of every nation is respected and the inherent dignity of every individual is upheld. Our unprecedented trilateral cooperation, I believe, is testament to the strength of the long-standing ties that unite us and to our shared commitment of ensuring the Indo-Pacific remains free and open, prosperous and secure, defined by opportunity for all, a shared commitment to create a future rooted in our common values. And later this decade, we will also be establishing a rotational presence of US and UK nuclear-powered subs in Australia to help develop the workforce Australia is going to need to build and maintain its fleet. Today, a new chapter in the relationship between our nation, the United States and the United Kingdom begins. And I want to thank the members of all of our teams who helped bring us to this pivotal moment, sitting in front of us, thank you all very much. So today, as we stand at the inflection point in history where the hard work of enhancing deterrence and promoting stability is going to affect the prospects of peace for decades to come, the United States can ask for no better partners in the Indo-Pacific, where so much of our shared future will be written.

The way that Defence Minister Richard Marles thinks about it, a nuclear-propelled submarine is a way of putting a question mark into the mind of an ...

The government translated that into the equivalent of $268 billion to $368 billion mostly to be able to fend off media demands for a dollar figure for the total project. The sense of fantasy is compounded by the cost. But where would it store the waste? So part three would be necessary, yet it’s the most complex. Why will this materialise when the last three came to naught? Part one is supposed to cover the next decade. Beijing objected to the arrangement. “China is angry,” interpreted the former Australian defence and intelligence official Paul Dibb, “because it understands how bloody good the Virginia-class submarines are. In that game, the government pretends to build submarines and we pretend to believe them. Son of Collins turned out to be a Labor phantasm, never started. The Australian submarines would be armed with conventional torpedoes and missiles. By guaranteeing “second strike” capability, they are supposed to deter any adversary from even thinking about launching a first.

When Anthony Albanese stepped onstage in San Diego, he stood to the side as United States President Joe Biden opened the AUKUS announcement to much American ...

Right now, the AUKUS project is celebrating reaching its first milestone, and the three men on stage in Port Loma on Tuesday are the faces of that accomplishment. "The support and approval of Congress" is a very important part of that sentence. The size of the US deficit is a problem, and it means the president will need to find savings on government spending. The success of the AUKUS project relies on the administration of the day and the party in control of the House continuing to approve it. So, Biden needed to stress the AUKUS deal was not about giving Australia a handout and instead it was a mutually beneficial arrangement. Unlike Albanese, who is shaking hands on a deal that was originally struck by his predecessor, Biden has the responsibility of setting up the AUKUS project in a way that convinces those who come after him to follow through on it. Building submarines takes time — a lot of it — and in American politics, that can be a problem. The calculation is that the increased deterrence capability the submarines provide outweighs the risk of Australia becoming a larger target. But Australia is also storing a great deal of trust in the United States. This is a deal that relies on a great deal of trust. Yes, the US is sharing the so-called crown jewels of its navy — the technology that allows the nuclear-powered propulsion of its submarines. Right from the beginning, the host heaped praise on the other two members of AUKUS, saying they could not ask for "better partners to the Indo-Pacific where so much of our shared future will be written" and calling the deal a "testament to the strength of the longstanding ties that unite us".

Mr Marles said the first of the submarines' spent fuel rods would not need to be disposed of "until the 2050s". As Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, ...

They had an obligation to discuss this with the community,” Mr Patrick said. “I'll let the Deputy Prime Minister talk more about that. "That is a significant commitment to make. Mr Marles said that meant the first of the submarines' spent fuel rods would not need to be disposed of "until the 2050s". This is going to require a facility to be built in order to do that disposal," he said, adding the facility would be "remote from populations" and on defence land, "current or future." - Mr Marles said the first of the submarines' spent fuel rods would not need to be disposed of "until the 2050s".

Former prime minister Scott Morrison says China's rapid military build-up was at "the top of the list" of factors driving the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal ...

Asked again if he would describe it as immoral, Mr Morrison said: "I think the idea of ensuring the taxpayers' money which is paid is done properly is the principle. "That's not a reflection on those previous governments. "I believe that certainly the legality of the issue has been settled and had that been raised with the government at the time Robodebt would never have happened," Mr Morrison said. Asked if cabinet solidarity extended to misleading the public, Mr Morrison said: "Well you'd have to raise that with Stuart." Asked if China's rapid military expansion had prompted the United States to say yes, Mr Morrison said: "It was a combination of events but that was certainly at the top of the list." Mr Morrison said that in 2021, as he was considering whether to push forward with the nuclear submarine plan, he was not contemplating a potential war with China to be fought alongside the US. "It is true, other than the defence minister and the foreign minister," Mr Morrison said. "There had been since 2016, even in that short period of time, a very significant shift in the strategic situation in the Indo-Pacific," he said. Eighteen months after he announced "AUKUS is born", Mr Morrison agreed in an interview with 7.30 that he might well be described as "the father" of the agreement. - On Robodebt, Mr Morrison said: "The outcome was very different from what was intended" - Scott Morrison says the shift in the strategic situation in the Indo-Pacific made the diesel-powered subs Australia had agreed to purchase from France "effectively obsolete" Former prime minister Scott Morrison says China's rapid military build-up was at "the top of the list" of factors driving the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal he brokered in deep secrecy with the United States and the United Kingdom.

In the unveiling of the Aukus deal, it was revealed that Australia will be responsible for any nuclear waste generated by the submarines. South Australian ...

It would be particularly bizarre conversation to say that the answer to high power prices is to introduce the most expensive form of energy available – nuclear. This is going to be building the most complex machinery known to humanity, which means this site will become one of the centres of highest technology industry in the world. Smith cited solutions including statutory trusts (requiring companies to pay progressively into a pot of money reserved for their creditors), and greater action from regulators such as the Fair Work Ombudsman and Tax Office. The third is a land exchange which is going to provide South Australia with really important land at Keswick in urban Adelaide, land at Cultana which is important but from the defence point of view is going to provide in exchange the land right here at Osborne necessary to put in place the construction yard which will ultimately build these submarines. The pair were responding to the collapse of PBS Building, with creditors owed an estimated $250m. It’s going to transform our national economy but it is going to transform the South Australian economy. It is of the same order of magnitude of the Snowy River scheme in the 60s. A final decision on the increase will be made on 24 May. Ministers agreed to moving Naplan into Term 1 so the results would be available earlier in the year to inform teaching and learning programs. They were also planning an increase of 800 university places in South Australia over four years, the establishment of a training academy “right here at Osborne”, and a land exchange to allow for a larger construction yard. Remote, educationally disadvantaged and low-performing children were least likely to complete the tests. It was, instead, a question of how build up the required workforce: