The Senate committee considering legislation to introduce new export controls for defence can look forward to a busy summer sorting through complaints. Businesses both big and small and academics, researchers and others have made no secret of their disdain for parts of the proposed regime.

The bottom line though is we need this new layer of security if AUKUS is going to deliver on its promises. The US military machine is still the mightiest and most sophisticated on the planet and if we want to get inside the tent, we have to play by Washington’s rules.