Australia news live: government reveals new details of Aukus deal on nuclear material; Brittany Higgins shares sad personal news

The government calls the new agreement on nuclear material ‘a very significant step down the path’. Follow the day’s news live

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And welcome back to the Australia news live blog – thanks to Martin for kicking things off for us! I’m Emily Wind, and I’ll take you through our rolling coverage this Friday.

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What Aukus is about in the American mind is turning [Australia into suckers], locking us up for 40 years with American bases all around…not Australian bases.

So Aukus is really about, in American terms, the military control of Australia. I mean, what’s happened… is likely to turn Australia into the 51st state of the United States.

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