Minister for Defence Industry and Minister for Pacific Island Affairs, Pat Conroy MP, will travel to the United Kingdom this week.
The United Kingdom is one of our closest friends and oldest defence partner.
Minister Conroy will attend the Australia-United Kingdom Defence Industry Dialogue (AUKDID) alongside UK Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry, Luke Pollard MP.
This will be the first iteration of AUKDID since 2018 and follows agreement between ministers at the 2025 Australia-UK Ministerial Consultations to reinvigorate the dialogue.
Minister Conroy will visit several key sites to observe progress in the delivery of the SSN-AUKUS program. He will engage with UK Government counterparts and industry partners critical to building Australia's skilled nuclear-capable workforce and delivering more opportunities for Australian companies to tap into the UK submarine industrial base.
Quotes attributable to Minister for Defence Industry, Pat Conroy MP:
"The Australia-United Kingdom Defence Industry Dialogue is an opportunity to discuss deeper defence industry collaboration and ways we can collectively strengthen our defence capability.
"The tyranny of distance, which has long been a challenge to closer cooperation, is now a strength. It gives us a chance to share lessons from opposite ends of the world and it allows us to achieve global strategic effects."
