{"id":7277,"date":"2025-09-15T01:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T01:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/australia-says-us-will-have-access-to-western-australia-nuclear-submarine-shipyard\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T01:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T01:37:37","slug":"australia-says-us-will-have-access-to-western-australia-nuclear-submarine-shipyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/australia-says-us-will-have-access-to-western-australia-nuclear-submarine-shipyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia says US will have access to Western Australia nuclear submarine shipyard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SYDNEY – The United States will be able to use planned defence facilities in Western Australia that are to help deliver nuclear-powered submarines under the trilateral AUKUS nuclear submarine deal, Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Sunday (Sept 14).<\/p>\n

Australia will spend A$12 billion (S$10 billion) to upgrade facilities at the Henderson shipyard near Perth, as part of a 20-year plan to transform it into the maintenance hub for its AUKUS submarine fleet, the government said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The AUKUS pact, sealed by Australia, Britain and the US in 2021, aims to provide Australia with attack submarines from the next decade to counter China’s ambitions in the Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump’s administration is undertaking a formal review of the pact led by Elbridge Colby, a top Pentagon policy official and public critic of the agreement.<\/p>\n

Asked on Sunday if the US would be able to use dry docks at the facility for its nuclear-powered submarines, Marles said, “This is an AUKUS facility and so I would expect so.”<\/p>\n

“This is about being able to sustain and maintain Australia’s future submarines but it is very much a facility that is being built in the context of AUKUS,” he told Australian Broadcasting Corporation television. “I would expect that in the future this would be available to the US”<\/p>\n

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The centre-left Labor government made an initial investment of A$127 million last year to upgrade facilities at the shipyard, which will also build the new landing craft for the Australian army and the new general-purpose frigates for the navy, supporting around 10,000 local jobs.<\/p>\n

Under AUKUS – worth hundreds of billions of dollars – Washington will sell several Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines to Australia, while Britain and Australia will later build a new AUKUS-class submarine.<\/p>\n

Before the Virginia-class submarines, the facility will receive “a rotation of US and UK vessels”, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“This will provide for a significant benefit for our allies, which is part of the AUKUS arrangement,” Albanese told a press conference in Perth.<\/p>\n

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The Republican and Democratic heads of a US congressional committee for strategic competition with China expressed strong support for AUKUS in July.<\/p>\n

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Marles said he remained “really confident about the proceeding of AUKUS under the Trump administration”, after a visit to Washington last month, during which he met with Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth and other officials.<\/p>\n

“We did speak about AUKUS in the meetings that I had in Washington a couple of weeks ago, and there was a positive sentiment there about how we’re proceeding,” he told Sky News television, according to a transcript.<\/p>\n

Australia, which in July signed a treaty with Britain to bolster co-operation over the next 50 years on AUKUS, has previously maintained it is confident the pact will proceed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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SYDNEY – The United States will be able to use planned defence facilities in Western Australia that are to help deliver nuclear-powered submarines under the trilateral AUKUS nuclear submarine deal, Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Sunday (Sept 14). Australia will spend A$12 billion (S$10 billion) to upgrade facilities at the Henderson shipyard near…<\/p>\n

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