PM harks to 1930s as he bolsters east coast defences
Australia's east coast defences will be significantly bolstered to counter the threat of enemy mines crippling sea lanes crucial to trade, as Scott Morrison invoked the spectre of the 1930s in a bleak warning of the deteriorating strategic outlook confronting the nation.
Analysts said the Defence Strategic Update and Force Structure Plan indicated the government's heightened fears over China's militarisation and the instability it was generating in the Indo-Pacific.
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