Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has said he believes the 2030 deadline for the country to have nuclear subs in our waters is “optimistic in the extreme.”
Marles who is also Australia’s defence minister said that he believed the deadline set by the previous Australian government was in the 2040’s rather than 2030.
“I think the truth of where the former government left us at the time of the election is that they were looking at a new nuclear submarine in the 2040s. That is where they were at,”  Marles said on the ABC’s Radio National on Wednesday.
“Now we will be looking at every option available to try and bring that time forward, but I think to bring it forward to eight years from now would be extremely optimistic.”…