USSC Director of Foreign Policy and Defence Professor Dean was featured in an article in The Australian about claims by former Labor leaders that AUKUS will undermine Australia's sovereignty.

“Paul Keating, Bob Carr and Gareth Evans are asking us to believe that the Prime Minister is lying about this and that there is a conspiracy to delude the Australian people. They have zero evidence for these claims," said Professor Dean, co-author of the recent Defence Strategic Review.