Along the lines I suspected when I wrote Unlikely Australia Wants to End French Submarine Deal on January 21, 2021:
A Brisbane Times article of March 2, 2021, written 4 hours ago is entitled :
"French submarines all but locked in after negotiation breakthrough"
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So Australia will always likely stick with Naval Group even though the Australian Governments puts on a hard bargaining act from time to time.
And a bitter casualty! Its way too early to be talking about Aussie SSNs.