Australian university students could be the key to delivering nuclear submarines as part of the AUKUS agreement.
The chief executive of the tertiary sector peak body Universities Australia, Catriona Jackson, is set to fly to Washington for crucial talks on how universities could help with the security partnership.
The alliance between Australia, the U.S. and the UK will enable Australia to acquire eight nuclear-powered submarines by the 2050s.
The details of the security deal were announced last month, with Australia set to spend up to $368 billion on the vessels over the coming decades.
Jackson said the agreement would lead to many research and national security partnerships between Australian universities and industries in the U.S. and UK….