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UK and Australia set to elevate defence relationship
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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3/21/2024
UK foreign secretary David Cameron and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps are expected to make a major announcement about the joint AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine project, and sign a significant "status of forces" agreement.
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Now, there's already a lot of cooperation between the UK and Australia on military matters,
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but what this agreement will do, well, it'll just make it easier, for example, for British
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military personnel to come to Australia.
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It puts a framework in place for that and for Australian forces going to the UK if necessary,
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as well as making it easier for the two militaries to do things like share fuel supplies and
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the like down the track.
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So this is all about making it easier for both sides to boost what's called intraoperability.
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And there's also a bit of symbolism at play, the UK signalling that it wants to be a major
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player in the Indo-Pacific and that it sees Australia as a major partner in that endeavour.
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What are we likely to see around Australia's plans for a nuclear submarine?
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Well, of course, the focus is typically on the United States.
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Understandably, when it comes to the AUKUS pact and Australia's plan to develop a nuclear-powered
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submarine of its own.
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But of course, the UK is also a member of AUKUS and is an indispensable part of this
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attempt to try and get Australia a nuclear-powered submarine capability.
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Now we're expecting over coming days, all four ministers, that is Richard Miles and
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Penny Wong and their British counterparts to go to Adelaide, as well as their talks
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today in Canberra.
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And we're expecting a major announcement in the AUKUS space.
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The broad expectation is that BAE, the British company, which has already got a substantial
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presence in Adelaide, it's building frigates there, that it will be announced as a major
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player in the effort to build those second generation AUKUS submarines in Adelaide.
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The theory or the hope is that they'll be in the water from the 2040s.
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So that's a pretty substantive moment or a pretty important moment in AUKUS.
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But of course, there are still huge formidable and formidable technical, political and other
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hurdles that all three countries face in this enormously ambitious endeavour to try and
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develop nuclear-powered submarines.
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So it is a substantial announcement taking Australia further down that track.
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But there is an awful long way still to travel.
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