Here’s an interesting AUKUS Review offering:
Any details resulting from the AUKUS Review activity
announcement BELOW may provide opportunities for Australian Senate Estimates,
APDR, bloggers and the Press to try and squeeze information out of our gagged
RAN Admirals and part time Defence Minister Marles.
In coming weeks after this AUKUS Review activity we may also
learn much from the more publically forthcoming US side (Congress, the
Congressional Research Service (see its AUKUS Briefing), US DoD and the USN) than our gagged RAN
Admirals and other AUKUS staff who labour under undemocratic secrecy
parameters.
One should never ask "What political details can be revealed about Australia's
largest defence change ever?" or "How is the AU$368 Billion (to a half Trillion) of taxpayers' money for AUKUS being spent?"
Anyway see US DoD Media Release of 7/8 November 2023
at https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3582952/performing-the-duties-of-deputy-under-secretary-of-defense-for-policy-dr-mara-k/
“…Performing the Duties of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for
Policy Dr. Mara Karlin will lead a senior interagency delegation to Australia
this week for a series of high-level trilateral engagements to advance the
AUKUS defense and security partnership to promote a free and open Indo-Pacific
region.
The delegation comprises officials from across the Department of
Defense, representatives from the National Security Council staff, the
Department of State, and the Department of Energy.
In Canberra, Dr. Karlin will co-chair, alongside her United
Kingdom and Australian counterparts, the trilateral governance bodies for the
two Pillars of AUKUS
– conventionally-armed, nuclear powered submarines (Pillar I) and advanced
capabilities (Pillar II).
The AUKUS Submarine Executive Group will review progress in
Pillar I to support Australia’s acquisition of a sovereign nuclear-powered
submarine capability…”