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Anti-discrimination laws exemption may cost engineers work on AUKUS submarines

Iranian-born Australian citizen and software engineer Eric Raygan has lived in Australia since 2010. (ABC News: Eric Tlozek)

Australian engineers who were born overseas fear they could miss out on the AUKUS-inspired defence jobs boom because of restrictive United States security requirements.

Tough rules excluding people with links to certain countries mean employers may struggle even further to fill skills shortfalls in the technical professions required for the nuclear submarine procurement, construction and deployment.

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