There are now reports, that the RAN will get Virginia class submarines in the 2030s:
Australian Report on AUKUS Nuclear Powered Submarine Pathway
AUKUS Plan: Aussie Sailors to Serve on American Subs, RAN to Buy U.S. Virginia Attack Boats
There is also an article that Rolls-Royce will built the reactors for the RAN submarines:
Nuclear reactors from Rolls-Royce to power Australian submarines
This will be probably the SSN-AUKUS, the common future SSN for both RN and RAN - and these will arrive in the 2040s as to the original time schedule by the Australian government.
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