If Penny Wong thinks lecturing Britain helps relations between the two countries then the Australian Foreign Affairs Department lacks diplomatic common sense. Australia is strategically vulnerable to Chinese expansionism & needs all the friends & help it can get. Hence why its rearming & joined AUKUS.
I wonder who else she thinks might be in a position to provide Australia with nuclear subs? The Americans are too busy trying to build enough of their own & their shipyards have no spare capacity. Since Canberra wants the RAN to have nuclear subs asap the the British Astute class is a likely contender.
Australia has been forging its own path ever since the fall of Singapore in 1942. It'a an interesting topic but I'm unsure how it might be relevant to a royal visit.
I wonder who else she thinks might be in a position to provide Australia with nuclear subs? The Americans are too busy trying to build enough of their own & their shipyards have no spare capacity. Since Canberra wants the RAN to have nuclear subs asap the the British Astute class is a likely contender.
Australia has been forging its own path ever since the fall of Singapore in 1942. It'a an interesting topic but I'm unsure how it might be relevant to a royal visit.
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