The future of the Garden Island highway will be debated at Tuesday’s City of Rockingham council meeting.
Rachel Fenner
The commitment to delivering a consolidated, Commonwealth-owned defence precinct at Henderson is vital for our nation’s defence, but it is also monumentally important for WA.
Richard Marles
Tens of billions of dollars will be poured into Henderson shipyard to create a new defence precinct capable of building modern naval ships and maintaining Australia’s nuclear-powered submarines.
Katina Curtis and Jessica Page
The mammoth task of building hundreds of homes in just a few years for AUKUS defence personnel took a major step forward.
Jake Dietsch
Mayors and chief executives from six local governments have returned from the US in their bid to prepare for AUKUS.
Gabrielle Becerra Mellet
Young West Australians will be given an exclusive chance to learn how to build and look after Australia’s nuclear-powered submarines with 200 spots on offer in a new training program.
Katina Curtis
Defence Minister Richard Marles has promised a decision shortly about what needs to happen at the Henderson precinct – flagging it will involve relocations to separate secure naval work from civilian operators.
American sailors from USS Emory S. Land joined staff at WA Wildlife to lend a hand by cleaning up animal enclosures.
Australian sailors will spend the next fortnight repairing a US nuclear-powered submarine at HMAS Stirling in the first major demonstration of tangible progress under the historic AUKUS agreement.
Josh Zimmerman
Plans for a $740 million redevelopment of HMAS Stirling have been greenlit by Federal Parliament in a boost for WA’s AUKUS preparations.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Flights are booked and visas have been paid for a $168,000 AUKUS delegation to the US, but the Town of East Fremantle this week came close to cancelling the trip.
Billions of dollars’ worth of military hardware will be able to flow freely between Australia, the US and UK under a ‘generational’ export deal.
Questions have been raised about a pivotal security arrangement between Australia, the UK and the US, with concerns about one detail in particular.
Jessica Wang
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has responded after former PM Paul Keating made another blistering assessment of AUKUS.
Ellen Ransley
Paul Papalia has heralded the success of the State’s biggest-ever gathering of the defence industry.
A facility for storing ‘low-level’ waste from nuclear-powered submarines at HMAS Stirling has been approved by Federal regulators, which found radioactive doses to those outside of the base to be ‘negligible’.
Dylan Caporn
Hundreds of defence housing properties will be built around Rockingham to help cope with the region’s AUKUS-driven population boom
A group of Perth councils hold serious concerns about the impact AUKUS will have on their communities, including the potential for vulnerable residents to be displaced due to the lack of housing.
Kimberley Caines
The first contingent of workers set to build and operate Australia’s fleet of nuclear-powered submarines are on their way to Pearl Harbor to undertake training on the new technology.
Kasey Gratton
Residents protested outside a Perth council meeting on Tuesday night after a council decision to support AUKUS as part of its economic development action plan.
Claire Sadler
A hub to manage and store low-level radioactive waste will be built at HMAS Stirling as part of major upgrades to ready the base for AUKUS submarines
The government has committed that work on the dry dock at Henderson will create nearly 1000 jobs once a masterplan for the whole precinct is done within months.
AUKUS has motivated a British artificial intelligence firm already helping global companies bid for billions of dollars’ worth of work to ramp up its presence in WA.
Cheyanne Enciso
Secret Defence documents warned the government before it signed the AUKUS deal that it may lose the competition with the mining sector for submarine workers because it can’t offer high enough pay.
