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On AUKUS, Australia must catch up, not start again – yet again
As uncertainty surrounds the so-called “optimal pathway”, Australia’s political, diplomatic and defence chiefs need to work with AUKUS partners in the US and Britain to find a way through the gridlock.
The takeaway from international editor James Curran’s Questioning AUKUS series might be to wish that the most expensive and important defence project in the nation’s history wasn’t so fraught with big and real implementation risks and challenges.
But it might also be viewed as a timely warning for Canberra and its AUKUS partners in Washington and London to pull out all the stops to make sure Plan A works.
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