Aukus deal is ‘living a lie’: Australia will never get nuclear submarines from US and both sides know it, Bob Carr says
The Guardian reports, in an exclusive, that former Labor foreign affairs minister Bob Carr says officials in Canberra and Washington acknowledge the US will never send nuclear submarines to Australia. Carr, described as a leading critic of the deal, calls the $368bn Aukus agreement the two countries "living a lie" and says it has been reduced to a diplomatic joke. According to the Guardian, Carr expects American-operated vessels will instead be stationed in Australia.
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Aukus deal is ‘living a lie’: Australia will never get nuclear submarines from US and both sides know it, Bob Carr says
Exclusive: Former Labor foreign affairs minister says $368bn deal has been reduced to a diplomatic joke Get our daily political email , free app or daily news podcast The former Labor foreign affairs minister Bob Carr says officials in Canberra and Washington acknowledge that the US will never send nuclear submarines to Australia, describing the $368bn Aukus agreement as the two countries “living a lie”. Carr, a leading critic of the deal, expects American-operated vessels will instead be statio
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