Australian ambassador ‘confident’ AUKUS review will work out

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The Australian ambassador to the United States is “confident” that both countries will work through the Defense Department’s review of the 2021 AUKUS agreement between them and the United Kingdom.

“We are confident that we’ll work our way through each and every one of the issues, which [U.S. officials have] raised in the context of this internal Defense Department,” Kevin Rudd, the Australian ambassador to the U.S. and former prime minister, said on Friday at the Aspen Security Forum.

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