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To ensure support of key allies, Australia must get serious about defence

23 August 2024

9:49 PM

23 August 2024

9:49 PM

Amidst the bluster of Paul Keating’s recent intervention into the security debate by declaring Australia’s the Aukus pact risks turning us into ‘the 51st state of the United States’, he fails to heed Winston Churchill’s warning that ‘there is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them’.

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