Aukus nuclear submarine deal will be ‘too big to fail’, Richard Marles says
by Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspon from World news | The Guardian on (#69X0A)
Australia's defence minister plays down concerns multi-decade plan could be vulnerable to political changes in the US and UK
Australia's nuclear-powered submarine deal with the US and the UK will rapidly become too big to fail", the deputy prime minister has said.
Richard Marles made the comment in an interview with Guardian Australia's politics podcast, pushing back at the idea the multidecade Aukus plan could be vulnerable to political changes in both the US and the UK.
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