Poms and Aussies ignore the EU and just get on with it

UK and Australia celebrate closer ties with AUKUS progress and new defence treaty

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More UK jobs guaranteed and greater cooperation in face of international threats

With the EU still incapable of doing a trade deal with Australia after so many years, Brexit Britain has been forging ahead. Two days of talks ending yesterday have resulted in yet more good news which builds on what we have already reported here and here.

Yesterday in Canberra and Adelaide, UK and Australian Ministers met to discuss and sign new agreements to cement further the relations between the two countries on trade and defence issues.

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UK and Australian Foreign and Defence Ministers met in Adelaide to discuss shared security issues
New Defence and Security Cooperation Agreement signed
Australia appoints UK firm BAE Systems as a partner to build AUKUS submarines

Defence collaboration

The agreement will also make it easier for our forces to operate in each other’s nations, facilitating current activity like Operation Interflex and future deployments including the Navy’s Carrier Strike Group in 2025, and the RAF’s Exercise Pitch Black this summer.

UK and Australia ties are stronger than ever following a successful defence and foreign policy summit in Canberra, attended by the Defence Secretary and Foreign Secretary.

Over two days of meetings and engagements with their counterparts which take place annually – dubbed AUKMIN - David Cameron and Grant Shapps discussed shared priorities, challenges and cooperation on issues including Ukraine, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific.

Meeting in Canberra on Thursday, UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and Australian Deputy Prime Minister & Defence Minister Richard Marles agreed on closer collaboration including science and technology, information exchange and working together to maintain an open and stable Indo-Pacific.

Foreign Secretary David Cameron said:

“We are facing a daunting set of challenges in a dangerous and uncertain world. That is why cementing our relationship with friends such as Australia is so important.
“Our strong ties give us a platform to come even closer together in defence of our values. Our work in Australia has reaffirmed to me that close cooperation between our nations is the best way to face up to global threats.”

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said:

“Our international partnerships and friendships with like-minded nations such as Australia are more important than ever in an increasingly dangerous and contested world.
“Through our joint support to Ukraine, AUKUS partnership and Armed Forces exercises, our is a relationship that is proving the value of cooperation in delivering security and prosperity.”

Australian Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon Richard Marles MP, said:

“Today’s announcement of Australia’s sovereign submarine build and sustainment partners demonstrates the Albanese Government’s focus on maximising Australian industry involvement and jobs in the build and sustainment of Australia’s next generation conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarines.”

Supporting British jobs

All four Ministers visited Osborne shipyard on Friday morning, where BAE Systems are constructing Hunter ships, based on the UK’s Type 26 design, in another win for the UK defence industry.

Australia is also investing in Rolls-Royce, Derby, where the nuclear propulsion plants will be manufactured. The AUKUS programme, first announced in 2021, will support over 21,000 jobs in the UK at its peak – concentrated in Barrow-in-Furness and Derby.

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Reader Comments 10

1. Ashley Great Britain , Saturday, March 23, 2024, 08:32:

Lovely jubbly.
Makes perfect sense and it's good all round.
Enabled by us leaving the EU.

2. terence patrick hewett , Saturday, March 23, 2024, 09:01:

In a dangerous world, the Anglosphere is being pushed together, despite the shameful abandonment of them by the UK in 1973, in favour of a proto-EU. There is now serious opposition to AUKUS in Oz because of that perfidy, which will take a great deal of solid commitment to patch up. A future CANZUK has now become a very real possibility. When a man is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

3. John Jones , Saturday, March 23, 2024, 10:16:

Oh how politicos put a brave smile on things.
It appears there are real doubts as to Aukus surviving in its present form or scale despite UK & Aus putting the proverbial ' lipstick on a pig '.
Washington has severe budgetary issues & this looks likely to impact Submarine building inc selling the platform materiel to Australia.
It's a shame - the UK is a junior partner in crime - we really don't have the clout or money or skills to fill the void in the US.

4. Gazzablack , Saturday, March 23, 2024, 13:13:

3 JJ
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Desperately looking for a cloud eh Johnboy?

5. John Jones , Saturday, March 23, 2024, 14:35:

4. Gazzablack
Every silver lining has a cloud. You ought to know that by now. 😚
It's more about recognising the World for what it is, rather than being naïvely optimistic or being seduced by charlatans like Cameron & Schapps.
Look, if even only parts or 50% of Aukus occurs it's a good thing.

6. Gazzablack , Saturday, March 23, 2024, 15:49:

5, JJ
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Charlatans?
Seduced?
Naive?
.
I think your head is stuck in the cloud.

7. John Jones , Saturday, March 23, 2024, 22:31:

6. Gazzablack
Me bad, you clearly don't understand the 'big' words.

8. Captain Thunderbolt , Saturday, March 23, 2024, 23:34:

2. terence patrick hewett
Only opposition to AUKUS in Australia comes from the left side of political areana.
.
The current government is the most left leaning since Whitlam in 72. I’m sure the current government would scrap the nuclear submarines in a heartbeat, but they would look extremely bad on defence if they did so.
Majority of Australians are supporting the nuclear submarines project and even nuclear power debat is gaining traction within the community and they see green power as far too expensive and unreliable. There is room for both here in Australia

9. Gazzablack , Sunday, March 24, 2024, 00:06:

7 JJ
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Sure cupcake, whatever

10. P.R , Thursday, March 28, 2024, 11:01:

I fully expect to read all about this on the BBC news app and in the British print media, as we all know, they just love to report on anything positive post Brexit 😝

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