Sam Roggeveen
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193 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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It's so you can cancel them.
And the French were generously compensated.
Well, it's up to $368 billion.
That's the figure we have from governments.
So somewhere between 268 and 368, that was the figure offered at the time.
Essentially, what we get for that is eight nuclear-powered submarines.
And the first three and potentially as many as five of those submarines will be American.
They will be Virginia-class submarines from American shipyards.
And then the final three, and maybe as many as five, will be a new class of nuclear-powered submarine to be designed and built primarily in the UK, but also in Adelaide.
And at the moment, that's simply called SSN AUKUS.
But that is purely a paper design at the moment.
The process of designing and building that submarine has only just begun.
Well, it's actually worth remembering that AUKUS is an extremely attractive commercial proposition for the United States.
We're investing billions of dollars in American shipyards and in the American military-industrial complex.
Pretty good deal for the United States.
Well, I would say, first of all, that more scrutiny is welcome.
And that hasn't happened in the parliament.
So if it's going to happen outside the parliament, then great.
But ideally, we would have much more parliamentary scrutiny on this deal as well.
It's interesting to me that over the past few years since AUKUS was announced, criticism and scepticism about AUKUS has tended to come from the progressive side of politics.
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