Originally Posted by
Going Boeing
My recall of articles soon after the AUKUS announcement was that Biden needed to be assured of concrete bipartisan support for the concept within the Australian political parties and thus Albanese & a few select shadow ministers were secretly briefed by Morrison (and his team) and asked for a firm commitment before the US would agree.
This
article confirms that it was one of four requirements that the US insisted on...
Secretly briefed perhaps, but the article at the link you provided again says this was a DAY BEFORE the public announcement. I would hardly call that a way of gaining "concrete bipartisan support":
"...Yet the prime minister decided not to brief Labor leader Anthony Albanese for five months. He briefed him on the day before the deal was to be announced in a three-way piece of theatre with Morrison, Prime Minister Johnson and President Biden..."