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Australian involvement in construction of Aukus submarines important, acting defence minister says
More on submarines. In an interview with ABC Radio, the veterans affairs and acting defence minister, Matt Keogh, has reaffirmed the government's confidence it can reach its deadline of acquiring nuclear submarines by the end of the next decade.
We're certainly alive to the concerns that were raised in that letter that those congressmen wrote, but we've been engaging with the Biden administration, very positively ... The American government and the UK Government are as committed as the Australian government to this project and see that there is a pathway forward on how we will go about procuring these submarines.
The industrial base for all of the three countries - Australia included - is critical to achieving those outcomes and making sure that we're able to grow the pie by bringing the Australian industrial base into those existing industrial bases is very important.
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