France’s Naval Group ‘disappointed’
The new AUKUS strategic partnership announced today (16 September) spells the end of the Australian Government's $90 billion project for French-designed Attack Class submarines...
Joint leaders’ statement on nuclear submarines
The following is the joint statement by the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and US President Joe Biden
As leaders...
Virginia-class nuclear subs a better option
By Tom Lewis*
Australia's submarine acquisition program has spent several billion dollars and not seen a metre of steel cut yet. That’s not a bad thing....
The build process for our new submarines is disastrous
By Dr Tom Lewis*
Of all of the possible solutions to Australia's need for submarines, a worse one could not have been made than the...
The submarine nuclear option
By Denis Mole*
In Adelaide’s The Advertiser newspaper on 7 March, former defence minister Christopher Pyne said, ‘Then there is the nonsensical argument that the...
Subs deal ‘shows Australia’s defence overspend’
By Crispin Hull*
WE ASKED the wrong question. We asked: should we get the French, the Germans or the Japanese to help us build new submarines? The fourth option and fifth options were not canvassed – for short-term political reasons. The fourth and fifth options were: why build any submarines at all, and if we must have some submarines why not build nuclear-powered submarines with US help.