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Word is that even though US approval is in place, Australian government approval isn’t. Lots of money to be spent across Defence, but not a lot of money going around and this isn’t seen as a high priority. At least it won’t be as expensive as the Submarine cancellation.
They have a defence white paper being done atm for release early next year, at or around the same time as the nuclear submarine committe. Betting there wont be anything announced until that gets released