The latest news is that Indonesian fishing boats are not only taking fish, trochus, shark fin out of Australian waters but they are possibly smuggling drugs, guns, people.
Our vast coastline is impossible to patrol without an equally vast coast watch.
I read somewhere that the US are going to be kicked out of one of their big naval bases in Japan or the islands, cannot remember where but maybe we could offer them a suitable harbour in our north to build another base.
We have plenty of space and their navy patrols could be very useful.

If there is a terrorist attack in Australia, Mr. Benson and his cronies will be the first to crawl into a funk hole and whinge "Why didn't the Government prevent it?"