What do we know about the agreement the Prime Minister calls a 'new dawn for Australia'?
Australia will be forced to deal with nuclear waste on home soil.Anthony Albanese has declared the arrival of "new dawn for Australia's defence policy".
Australia will also purchase three American-made Virginia-class submarines, provided that's approved by the US Congress. If so, they won't arrive in Australia until 2032. Then there's the cost of the aborted French submarine contract, now replaced by the AUKUS arrangement. Australian taxpayers will still pay up to $5.5 billion for that deal, including $835 million in compensation for ripping it up.
"Australia is a proud non-nuclear weapons state and has committed to stay that way," he said on Tuesday.Credit:be forced to deal with its new fleet's nuclear waste on home soil. That hadn't previously been clear. At present, Australia doesn't have any high-grade nuclear waste disposal sites.
Modelling from the Grattan Institute shows $58 billion could cover the cost of boosting both the JobSeeker and Parenting Payment by $75 per week, with around $13 billion in change.
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