Shadow Foreign Minister Simon Birmingham says the Opposition welcomes the evolution of AUKUS.
US President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak joined together at a joint media conference in San Diego, California, on Tuesday to outline details of the AUKUS subs deal.
“We are proud of having been the government and parties of government that helped to deliver the AUKUS deal in the first place,” Mr Birmingham told Sky News Australia. “We’re pleased to see this next step delivery upon the taskforce work that we commissioned and outlining the next steps that will be undertaken in terms of Australia acquiring nuclear-powered submarine capabilities.”
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