Shadow Attorney-General Julian Leeser says the benefit of the AUKUS program is “access to nuclear submarine technology” that only Britain and America have shared with each other.
“It allows a country with a very large coastline like ours to defend ourselves,” Mr Leeser told Sky News Australia.
“It provides for jobs for Australians, but the details of that announcement we will see from the government in the next few days.”
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