The answer is simple.
How much debt is America in? How much Debt is Europe in?
Who will, or would it be to pay for any Military? China will pay America?
You see , The obvious question is Who had taken it for granted and robbed and destroyed individual rights and Intelligent thought , and just as the Roman empire imploded , just as any other empire had imploded , The obvious in not that Omniscient and predetermined outcomes had caused it , but a consequence of, and due to Government Preditory nature to robb and enslave the pessants ;
Review Irish History for a period of about 1 thousand years; Government Free.
I survived every single attack from aggressors ,for it never had government elites to surrendor or depart on Imperial agression rampages.

Australia was a first world Nation, in fact it was at a certain point considered the last outpost of Western Civilization.

How quickly things change when Fourth world brainless Morons call themselves faceless gods of State, and sacrifice everyone and everything.
We ought to be the most powerful economic Nation on the face of the planet, but look what The Thief’s have done.

Being allied to the biggest bully and most hated kid in the schoolyard is not a role I ever aspired to.
The greatest threat to Australia's security is our servitude to the USA's military industrial complex. It would far more cost effective to build a domestic military industry focussed on *defence*, rather than spending money on second rate American attack machinery.
Wouldn't it be interesting to live in a world where all nations had an ability to defend their borders, but little or no ability to attack?
Being an island nation, Oz is probably in a better position to lead the world in this direction than most.