Australia's defence policy - if it can even be said to have one - is a shambles.

I read something a few days ago questioning whether the West any longer has the will to defend itself. Australia seems to be saying NO.

Communist China, like a hyena smells a rotting carcass, senses that.

Defence needs to be based on our ability to innovate and manufacture armaments, munitions and autonomous systems/drones etc. And able to repair and resupply as fast as we lose platforms/systems. We also need built in redundancy in all the above.

Even so, we know that they are only as good as the fuel supply that they rely on. Which has to be self-sufficient and endless. And produce all our fuel from seawater using known and proven technology. Be able to refit our Collins class subs with nuclear power and solid state, super silent drives.

Until our purchases of new nuclear-powered subs are delivered. Defence posture must make the price of attacking Australia way too high. We must produce a nuclear arsenal and hold it as deterrent we can actually deliver if we are nuked by a hostile foreign power.

"Until our purchases of new nuclear-powered subs are delivered."
Doubt whether I shall see them......

It makes little sense and it is too expensive for Australia to spend what will actually be A$500 Billion to 2045:

- on American submarines
- for American imperial interests in the Middle East and Taiwan Strait

with defending Australia's shores an afterthought.

If we built are own nuclear deterrent (placing them on the long range Gilmour rockets being built in Queensland http://www.gspace.com/launch )

we wouldn't need to buy these American submarines.

And we wouldn't need to risk half our Defence Budget on the increasingly isolationist American imperial alliance.

Mavs
(Nuclear weapons for Australia)