If AUKUS Were NDIS? Rising Cost of Elusive Subs Submerged in Budget

If AUKUS were NDIS? Rising cost of elusive subs submerged in budget

The price of the AUKUS submarine program is rising while the chances of subs being delivered is going down. Rex Patrick on the Budget subs spending. It’s quite hard, indeed impossible, to work out how much the AUKUS submarine program is costing the taxpayer, with few details and much hidden across multiple budgets. We’ll start with the operation of the Australian Submarine Agency (ASA). The total appropriation to run ASA over the next four years…

Budget shows spending brought forward | The Australian Naval Institute

The 2025-26 Defence budget was supposed to come in at $58.9 billion but it actually came in at $63.2 billion, around $4 billion higher than forecast, much of which was spent on the nuclear submarines program, Australian Defence Magazine reports. Budget papers show spending on the nuclear submarine plan was budgeted at $3.1 billion but […]