The Latest Breaking News from AUKUS

Australia will not ban Russian tourists from entering the country as part of sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine, Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Sunday.

China clashed with the countries in the so-called AUKUS alliance at the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Friday over their plan to supply Australia with nuclear-powered submarines, capping a week in which Beijing has repeatedly railed against the project.

It’s clear Scott Morrison’s $170bn nuclear submarine deal will leave Australia vulnerable for years. Should we go back to the French?

If it’s a deal dreamed up by the bumbling ScoMo and BoJo, Crikey readers have no time for it. Nor do you have any time for the gambling industry.

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A leaked confidential document gives an insider's perspective on how the Morrison government went about cancelling the French submarine contract, highlighting how officials running the contract were kept in the dark.

One year since Australia signed a landmark nuclear submarine deal with the United States and the United Kingdom, the plans are taking shape.

A year after the announcement of the Aukus alliance between Australia, the UK, and the United States, Canberra is still far from getting a new fleet of submarines powered by US nuclear technology. France, which lost a major contract to provide submarines, is reportedly ready to step in and fill…

An ambitious plan from AUKUS partners could see Australia's future nuclear submarine also operated by the US and the UK, but the government has so far refused to be drawn on any cost estimates for the massive project.

Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson saw the AUKUS submarine deal as a political life raft and grabbed hold of it with both hands.

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