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Radio interview, ABC Newcastle

SUBJECTS: Drone activity at Newcastle Airport; AUKUS.  JENNY MARCHANT, HOST:  Reports of drones flying over Williamtown RAAF Base might have caught your attention today. The Daily Telegraph was reporting that this happened over a couple of days last month. Defence has said to us it's…

Television Interview, Today Show

SUBJECT/S: Submarine Rotational Force-West; Delivering Joint Advanced Tactical Missiles for the Australia’s Air Force; Immigration; Tony Burke & National Press Club SAM ARMATAGE, HOST: To discuss, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles joins me now live from…

Television Interview, News24 News Day

SUBJECTS: Submarine Rotational Force-West; AUKUS; Luke Gosling; Victorian Government; Suburban Rail Loop; Private Health Insurance; Garma; Australian Broadcasting Corporation TRUDY MCINTOSH, HOST: Joining me live now from Geelong is the Acting Prime Minister Richard Marles. Richard, good to see you…

Radio Interview, ABC Illawarra

SUBJECTS: AUKUS; French submarine deal; Defence spending NICK RHEINBERGER [HOST]: Let’s turn our attention once again to the AUKUS deal. This is the most significant investment that Australia has ever made in defence, and it is, of course, part of a partnership between us and the UK. In this latest…

Television Interview, ABC 730

SUBJECTS: AUKUS SARAH FERGUSON, HOST: Next year an American nuclear-powered submarine, US crew, support staff, families and pets will be stationed at the Stirling Naval Base in Western Australia. Just don't call it an American base. The official name is Submarine Rotational Force West. As the date…

Australia advances AUKUS capability with dry dock design appointment

AUKUS is taking another important step, with the Albanese Government selecting a designer for the submarine contingency dry dock capability in support of Australia’s conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarine fleet. Leidos Gibbs and Cox Australia has been selected to lead the preliminary…

Australian steel to support Virginia-class submarine construction

Australian-made submarine grade steel will be used in the build of United States (US) Navy Virginia-class submarines for the first time, demonstrating the growing contribution Australian industry is making to the trilateral submarine industrial base under AUKUS.  Bisalloy Steel has received a…

Doorstop, Washington DC

SUBJECTS: AUKUS, Virginia-class construction rate, Autonomous vessel development, China relationship.  MINISTER FOR DEFENCE INDUSTRY PAT CONROY: Good morning, everyone. We all set? Well, it's great to be here in Washington, D.C. again for a visit firmly focused on Aussie industry and…

Travel to The United States

This week I am travelling to Washington D.C, Charleston and Tucson for meetings and engagements to strengthen co-operation with the United States. This trip is about building opportunities for Australian industry and jobs, building supply chain resilience and seeing progress on our investment in…

Radio Interview, ABC Radio Adelaide

SUBJECTS: AUKUS, Labor national conference, US tariffs. NIKOLAI BEILHARZ: One of the big announcements around that is the latest stage of the preparations for AUKUS. $4.6 billion has been allocated to the further construction of the AUKUS shipyard where the nuclear-powered submarines will…

Press Conference, Adelaide

SUBJECTS:  Osborne Shipyard Investment; Australia-UK relationship; AUKUS; ALP National Conference; Political Donations; Defence spending; US tariffs; Military Court Proceedings

Radio Interview, ABC RN Breakfast

SUBJECTS: Middle East Conflict; Fuel Supply; US tariffs; Osborne Shipyard Investment; AUKUS; ALP National Conference; Gambling Reform; Federal contributions to Local Government ; One Nation SALLY SARA, HOST: Richard Marles is the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence and joins me now…