Could Australia's Invincibles become Aegis carriers?

What air-defence path might Australia choose for its carriers and escorts?

Australia could retain its American missile alignment and potentially fit Standard Missile or an early Aegis-style system to later Invincibles.

Australia already operates Charles F. Adams-derived destroyers and may prefer Standard Missile to the British Sea Dart path. The timing matters because Ticonderoga-class construction begins in 1980, while later Invincibles in the expanded program would still be building. An Australian carrier with an early Aegis-style combat system is therefore plausible. The Ticonderoga superstructure shows that the necessary phased-array arrangement could be adapted to a large aviation hull. Such a ship would combine the visibility and aircraft of a carrier with the air-defence authority of an Aegis cruiser. This remains a possibility rather than a guaranteed design choice.