On Liberty Ep70 | Peter Jennings | AUKUS, AUSMIN, And The

Centre for Independent Studies

English - October 05, 2021 03:41 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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We talk to Peter Jennings, executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), about submarines, China, and the future of the Australia-UK-US security partnership.

Hot on the heels of the AUKUS announcement and the nuclear-powered submarines deal, Scott Morrison hitched a ride with Marise Payne and Peter Dutton to attend the Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) in Washington, DC last week. While the foreign and defence ministers met their US counterparts Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin, Morrison was in close conference with Joe Biden, discussing the future of US-Australia relations. What was on their agenda? What decisions were made? And what does AUKUS really mean for Australia?