Australia’s $800 million AUKUS handout to US broke internal rules

Government AUKUS payment US$500 million ($798 million) Documents obtained under freedom of information laws reveal that payments sent to the Trump administration in the second quarter of this year were made hastily by Defense bureaucrats in violation of the department’s standard payment rules.

cricket He has been seeking details of AUKUS payments for months from the Department of Defence, Defense Minister Richard Marles’s office and the Australian Submarine Agency (ASA), the beleaguered body tasked with overseeing AUKUS, and has been frustrated at every turn.