(AFP) — Australia will spend an initial Aus$12 billion (US$8 billion) to upgrade shipyard facilities for a future fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, the government said Sunday.
The investment is to be spent over a decade to transform a shipbuilding and maintenance precinct in Perth, Western Australia, Defence Minister Richard Marles said.
The shipyard expansion is the latest in a string of high-profile Australian defence upgrades.
But Canberra is confident in the pact’s future.
The Washington Post said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had privately reassured Marles two weeks ago that AUKUS would proceed.
Marles declined to discuss the report.
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