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DEFENCE

Is it time for the Albanese government to be diagnosed with defence insanity? A plea of collective insanity might prove useful if ever it was charged with gross and reckless misuse of public funds.

On the one hand, it’s pouring more billions of dollars into the AUKUS chimera (″⁣ US-bound PM commits $12b to nuclear sub site ″⁣, 14/9) to satisfy the demands for higher defence spending from an increasingly untrustworthy and unfriendly US administration.

On the other, it’s failing to draw the logical conclusion from its tentative foray into drone technology (″⁣

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