A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats.

* Richard Maries, Australia's deputy prime minister and minister of defence, said the day when Australians under the AUKUS deal are flying their flag over a nuclear-powered submarine is a long way off.

The United Kingdom and the United States in 2021 entered a deal to help Australia develop a new submarine fleet and there is no time to waste, he said. Details of how the three nations will coordinate the project are due in the middle of 2023.

The 10 years the nation spent pursuing a non-nuclear-powered sub was a "lost decade," he said at a Submarine Institute of Australia conference in Canberra recently.

"The decision making that we need to go through and the steps that we need to start taking feel...