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Lisa Cox

Albanese says Morrison broke faith with US by delaying Labor’s Aukus briefing

Anthony Albanese
Anthony Albanese told reporters Scott Morrison called him the day before the Aukus deal was announced and asked him to fly to Canberra for a briefing. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Anthony Albanese says the prime minister, Scott Morrison, broke “faith and trust” with the US by waiting four-and-a-half months to brief Labor on the Aukus deal, a claim the Coalition has criticised as “misleading” and “reckless”.

Albanese was responding to a report in Nine newspapers that the Biden administration would only consider the project if it had bipartisan support.

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