There are risks – but the trilateral security pact is likely to provide greater US resolve to stay engaged in Australia’s neighbourhood
rime minister Anthony Albanese is set to commit Australia to the biggest national industrial redevelopment project since the Snowy Hydro electricity scheme and the British-Australian nuclear weapons research collaboration of the 1950s.
Australia, with a long history of struggling to reconcile its history with its geography , has shown signs of being eager to be on good terms with south-east Asian and Pacific neighbours, but Aukus leaves less bandwidth for governments to respond to such issues.Recruiting, training and keeping a workforce with specialist skills in the fields of nuclear science , coupled with a significant expansion in specialist trades, will stretch the ability of the already taxed Australian education sector.
For a boutique defence force like Australia’s, which proudly stresses its sovereignty, militarily it has become increasingly enmeshed and reliant on US systems – ironically enough with a view to bolster its own self-reliance.
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