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The budget papers explicitly refer to “an increasingly assertive China,” dispensing with the previous norm of references to “mounting tensions” with unnamed “foreign adversaries.”
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Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has attacked the government over its record on defence after Labor came in for continued criticism of its spending on national security during its most recent period in power.
Anthony Albanese is determined to match the federal government on defence spending and national security – while launching a few attacks of his own.
Australian, US and British nuclear-powered submarines will operate from the east coast under a $10 billion plan to build a naval base somewhere between Wollongong and Brisbane.