Australia, Britain and US form 'forever partnership' with AUKUS trilateral technology-sharing security deal

· Updated September 16 2021 - 6:58pm, first published 3:00pm

Australia will become a nuclear submarine-owning nation but won't abandon existing nuclear weapon prohibitions as it embarks on a new "forever partnership" with the UK and United States known as AUKUS.

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Sarah Basford Canales

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Former federal politics bureau chief for the Canberra Times, via a career that's taken me from rural Victoria to Washington DC. Telling the stories of my local LGBTI community brought me to political journalism, where I've covered eight budgets, four national elections in two countries, Defence, public service and international governance.

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