Australia Reiterates to have Received AUKUS Submarine Review from US.

Canberra December 2025: Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said that his country has received the United States review of the AUKUS Nuclear Submarine Partnership and is “working through it”.

Earlier in June 2025, President Donald Trump’s administration said that it had launched a formal review into the AUKUS defence deal, worth hundreds of billions of dollars that will allow Australia to acquire US nuclear-powered submarines, and also involves Britain. The review had sparked alarm in Australia, but concerns were eased when Trump signalled his support for the programme in a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the White House in October.

“We are in receipt of the AUKUS review now. We’re working through the AUKUS review, and we very much thank the United States for providing it to us“, Marles told reporters today on 04th December. “What’s really important here is the United States is completely supportive of AUKUS“.

The review was led by the Pentagon’s Under Secretary Elbridge Colby, who said last year that submarines were a scarce, critical commodity, and US industry could not produce enough to meet American demand.

AUKUS is Australia’s biggest-ever defence project, with the country committing to spend AU$368 billion ($240 billion) over three decades to the programme, which includes billions of dollars of investment in the US submarine production base.

Australia announced on Monday – 01st December, that it will reorganise its defence bureaucracy, forming a “defence delivery agency” that reports directly to ministers, to improve defence spending and speed up delivery of projects, despite a history of incompetence and vast cost overruns.

Reorganising Defence Bureaucracy:

On 01st December 2025, Defence Minister Richard Marles has said that Australia will reorganise its defence department, forming a defence delivery agency and appointing a national armaments director to improve defence spending and delivery. The changes ought to start in July next year will merge the existing capability acquisition and sustainment group; guided weapons and explosive ordnance group; and naval shipbuilding and sustainment group. The new agency will report directly to the defence minister.

“This is one of the most significant reforms to defence that we have seen. It will greatly change the way defence operates“, Marles said in a press briefing in Canberra.

The reforms, “will see a much bigger bang for buck for the defence spend“, as Australia plans to spend an extra AU$70 billion (US$46 billion) over the next decade, Marles said.

The current Labour Government has increased the size of the Australian bureaucracy by around 30% since 2022.

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