OPINION: Anthony Albanese is selling AUKUS as a vital investment in peace and jobs. China will be unpersuaded but it’s one Morrison government legacy that the PM is happy to embrace.
Like the dollars involved, the superlatives used for the AUKUS announcement are at the extreme edge of political imagination.on a US warship in San Diego, is clearly delighted to preside over what he calls a new chapter in the relationship of the three countries.
In effect, the arrangement officially ties Australia even more tightly into the US alliance as the Biden administration attempts to counter China’s rapidly accelerating military capability, strategic intentions and regional interventions. But Albanese’s focus on what it means for Australian jobs and skills is designed to ward off the equally inevitable criticism of the mind-boggling cost of Australia’s determination to acquire nuclear submarines over the next few decades.
“And just as the vision of [John] Curtin and [Ben] Chifley in creating our automotive industry lifted our entire manufacturing sector, this investment will be a catalyst for innovation and research breakthroughs that willNot that details of this investment or their practical execution are as definitive as the prime ministerial rhetoric suggests.
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