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Space and AUKUS: What is the relevance and impact of Australia's participation in AUKUS in the space domain?

  • Melissa de Zwart

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

    Abstract

    The announcement of the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (‘AUKUS’) Partnership on 15 September 2021 came as a surprise to most people, even close watchers of defence developments in the three states involved. Details provided at the time of the announcement were scant and focused predominantly on the controversial decision for Australia to discontinue its existing submarine program with the French Naval group in favour of building nuclear-powered submarines with the assistance of US and UK. Media coverage overlooked the broader benefits of the partnership to focus on the fallout of the consequential rift between Australia and France and the question of how Australia could rapidly develop the requisite expertise in nuclear power
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationRegional Commentary: The Foundations of Australia's Space Policy
    EditorsTristan Moss
    Place of PublicationQueensland, Australia
    PublisherGriffith Asia Institute
    Chapter8
    Pages82-90
    Number of pages9
    Publication statusPublished - 2023

    Keywords

    • space activities
    • AUKUS
    • Defence
    • Australia

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