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Secret documents reveal preferred Australian nuclear submarine base – and warn it could be a military target

Aukus](https://www.theguardian.com/world/aukus) agreement with the UK and US. Currently, those proposed submarines – if they arrive under Australian command, as scheduled, from 2032 – will be stationed in South Australia and Western Australia

Labor to boost defence spending by $53bn over next decade – but plan still short of Donald Trump’s demands

detailing a new integrated investment program for military capability, boosting the current budget by $14bn over the next four years, forward estimates period. But the plan still will not meet demands of US president, Donald

‘Not the deal promised’: Labor’s Ed Husic questions Aukus pact that will deliver secondhand subs

agreement, Labor MP Ed Husic has warned, arguing sluggish American production and the “transactional nature” of the Trump administration have put the multi-billion-dollar defence deal at risk. The defence minister, Richard Marles, this