The Latest Breaking News from AUKUS

Former prime minister Paul Keating has taken aim at Australia's AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine deal with the United States and the United Kingdom, calling it the "worst international decision" by a Labor government since conscription in World War I.

Australia’s media give Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s big spend on nuclear submarines as part of the AUKUS pact a generally positive response, and in NSW the candidates come out swinging before the March 25 election.

Tomorrow Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, US President Joe Biden and UK PM Rishi Sunak will announce which submarines Australia will acquire under the AUKUS treaty, and if reelected NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet will create a savings fund for each child in NSW at a cost of $850 million.

The alliance was announced in 2021 but details of how AUKUS will take shape have been the subject of negotiations for the past 18 months.

Joe Courtney, a member of US Congress' Armed Services Committee, declares Australia will receive the highest-quality Virginia-class nuclear submarines as part of the countries' AUKUS plan.

Mr Albanese will be joined by his UK counterpart in the US, amid speculation the leaders of the three countries will make an announcement about the AUKUS defence agreement.

Anthony Albanese will warn that a climate change bill at the centre of a dispute with the Greens is critical to national security.

Defence minister Richard Marles says Aukus partners will all benefit from ‘three-way ecosystem’ as he meets with US counterpart Lloyd Austin

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he would have signed up to the AUKUS deal with the US and UK if he had been PM at the time, and he has asked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton just what will it take to get his support for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.