People shit on Pine Gap but it's a good deal for Australia, at least until we build a real military, which we don't have to do because we can rely on seppos.
I think we should put more resource into the Navy, and have heaps of carriers in permanent rotation across the top end with a thousand drones manned by us. Kamikaze thermite drones. Send 10 at a war ship at once, they'd only cost 5k each. Class the people smuggling rings as terrorists so we can test military tools on them in prep for the inevitable was with Indonesia.
Dont steal my idea.