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Australia is set to ramp up its offensive cyber warfare capabilities with Peter Dutton warning that China now has the ability to launch an unprecedented digital onslaught on Down Under.
“I think it's really important that we start contributing. We've got a couple of little satellites up there,” said Air Vice Marshall Cath Roberts, “but space domain awareness is where we can start and we need to operationalize it because we are so far behind.”