Shoebridge, Sen David

Senator SHOEBRIDGE: Minister, obviously whether or not nuclear weapons are contained on Virginia class submarines is a matter for the United States, as the officials have made clear. As to whether or not we permit nuclear armed submarines into Australian ports, at least currently we're meant to have a sovereign capacity to refuse that. Will the Albanese government refuse the access to Australian ports of US nuclear submarines that are nuclear armed? Senator Wong: We understand the questions you're asking, and I think the answers that have been given, including the reference to our treaty obligations under the NPT and the Treaty of Rarotonga, are responsive to what you have asked, and we don't propose to add to them.