This is the thing -- quite legit to call for a more independent foreign policy for Australia. But you have to accept it means more more military spending. So what taxes will you raise or spending will you cut to fund it?https://twitter.com/PeterPhelpsMLC/status/1016837597094526976 …
and a large land mass and 25 million of its mates covering its western and northern flanks
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I just don't see the credible threat that we're to spend multi-billions and subordinate ourselves to a foreign power to mitigate.
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It's there in the Defence white paper. "Remote" threat of military attack but vulnerability to regional stability. We've outsourced much of the maintenance of stability to the US. If we don't want that, we need something else to maintain credibility.
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So more F35s give us 'credibility'? How about more spending on diplomacy and foreign aid?
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Or even some planes that fly in the rain.
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Will this help?

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As long as it stays up at 1000 km per hr.
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Full-on Chinese invasion: that's nuclear war, no two ways about it, with or without ANZUS. No way the US would let China do that. Look at their behavior RE Spratleys et al
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What's the actual scenario that defence police is supposed to be preventing?
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