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On the PM’s watch, Australia has acquired the biggest load of debt since the 1950s and suffered a foreign policy blunder of historic proportions.
Since January, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Defense Minister Peter Dutton have announced a new A$10 billion ($7.5 billion) submarine base on the country's east coast, A$9.9 billion for a new cyberwarfare center and A$38 billion to increase Australia's troop numbers by a third by 2040.
China has stolen a march on Australia, a 4000-kilometre advance from its nearest existing military base, without firing a shot.
Prime Minister Manasseh Damukana Sogavare (2nd L) of the Solomon Islands meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping (3rd R) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on October 9, 2019 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Parker Song-Pool/Getty Images) SYDNEY: In what may become a major issue in Australia’s federal election campaign and could alter military strategy in| USSA News
Morrison's "government has really dropped the ball on this," Peter Dean at the University of Western Australia said. "Why had the warnings last year had not been taken more seriously?"