Liberal Party Defence and National Security Policy Chair Lincoln Parker says the US Congress is “poised to remove” some of the legal restrictions surrounding the sale of their nuclear submarines.
Mr Parker told Sky News host Erin Molan that the US is really “holding up their end of the bargain” in terms of AUKUS.
“One of the requirements that the United States had for Australia was for us to have an east coast base ready to go.
“We’ve known about that for years.
“The Albanese government have come out and said ‘well we’re not going to make any announcements or any decisions on the east coast base until the end of the decade’.
“What are the Americans going to say.”
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Start building the base now and it might be ready by 2030.
If Trump gets re-elected he will ditch the deal. It's America first with him. He will not sell subs to Australia.
Look the two POOFDERS
Australia needs to be independent, and work harder, and better with its real neighbours.
The US loves money. They'll happily take are money 👍🏻
The global laundromat continues unabated
So is Australia .What's the problem here?
Big mistake by US and Australia letting China buy their land and politicians.
BIDEN will Be in PRISON in 2024. 👍🏽❤️🇺🇸
Australia really need these subs being a young country with no history of conquest to show the world we are are force to be reckoned with (China) out biggest trading partner these phallic symbols are just what's needed and Penny Wong to intimidate rivals good one Elbow
problem is anything that we do things here in AUS just pathetic and have to rely on overseas, our finance sector already taken over by Chinese
end of the decade is 3 elections away
Thanks Scott you’re the one that done this and labor will destroy it with lack of infrastructure to house them
Two vegetables together 🙄
We can't even build patrol boat on time and on budget. How are we going build nuke subs on time and budget? It will never happen. This project has the potential to bankrupt Australia.
Two of the weakest leaders of all time
The real issue with sharing Top Secret information, is ensuring that the party who is provided with advanced technology, has the capacity to keep it safe from everyone else. The billions of taxpayer dollars that was spent just to develop these technologies, necessitates they are handled with the highest level of secrecy.
In US weapons manufacturing, machine gun parts are made by dozens of manufacturers, with no one party having all the specifications or specs. You can imagine the huge amount of compartmentalizing that must be accomplished, before anything gets fabricated for a nuclear submarine?