This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel, the Defense Strategic Review Australia.

The headline says spending $4 billion buying and making missiles in major military shake-up.

Another headline says the move is to the north. It's all in fact all over the country.

There is something very large scale that Australia is now asserting over these next years

because of the threat of the people's Republic of China.

Because after China there are other threats to deal with in the Australian continent and

also because it's allied with other democracies on the earth. Australia is a natural bull

work to stop bad actors. Gregory, the Defense Strategic Review, according to this

headline at ABC Business that's Australian broadcasting.

Shifts Australia is focused north and ask what will that mean for the Darwin port?

We've got to do some geography, Gregory. Where is the Darwin port and what does it mean

to shift defense north?

Well, I'd have to say that the movement of the Australian Defense Forces into a northern

posture on the northern part of the Australian continent has been underway for decades and

it's always important. But it started with the 1987 Defense White Paper, the precursor

to the current Defense Strategic Review. When we saw major defense bases being put up

in the northern territory close to Darwin, which is very close to Indonesia, very close

to Papua New Guinea and is the area where you'd have the major anticipated initial assaults

on Australia. Should that occur again?

We bear in mind that within a few weeks of the attack on Pearl Harbor, we saw the Japanese

Imperial Fleet attack Darwin and the attack on Darwin was of a much larger scale than

the attack on Pearl Harbor. There weren't so many high capital targets to hit in Darwin,

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