The Prime Minister denies that Australia broke with the Biden administration when it decided not to consult Labor about its momentous decision to scrap the French submarine program and unveil an ambitious new plan to build nuclear-powered submarines with the US and the UK.
The Prime Minister has denied that Australia broke with the Biden Administration when it decided not to consult Labor about its momentous decision to scrap the French submarine program and unveil an ambitious new plan to build nuclear-powered submarines with the US and the UK.
"[This is] one of the most secure and highly confidential agreements the Australian Government had entered into since ANZUS" he told journalists. "Labor laid the foundations for the US alliance during the Second World War, when Australia turned to Labor in its darkest hour. We have been supporters of the US alliance ever since," he said.
"Even though Labor could not have been more clear, more decisive, or more certain about our support for AUKUS, this Prime Minister has continued to play politics and to suggest that that wasn't the case at each and every opportunity," Mr Albanese said. Mr Morrison did not say exactly what sort of bipartisan consultation the US requested the Coalition undertake ahead of the AUKUS announcement, but said the government had "absolutely complied with all of the issues that needed to be addressed informing that partnership."
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