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Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia will obtain nuclear submarines for the first time under a new defence alliance with the United States and the United Kingdom. It will not include weapons or a civil nuclear industry.
The historic new defence agreement was a proposal 18 months in the making. It would result in what the US has described as “biggest strategic step Australia has taken in generations”.
Defence insists it is committed to buying submarines from the French but has confirmed it is looking at alternatives in case the $90 billion deal falls over.
PM intervenes in submarine debacle Save Share Two senior naval officers have been tasked by Prime Minister Scott Morrison to examine options for Australiaâs submarine fleet, amid ongoing tensions with the French over the $90 billion future submarine program. As Naval Groupâs global chief executive Pierre-Eric Pommelet arrives in Canberra on Wednesday for crunch talks with Defence Minister Linda Reynolds and Finance Minister Simon Birmingham over the project, sources say Mr Morrison is questioning the scope of the major shipbuilding programs as costs spiral by billions of dollars. De...