and with neighbours in the region, including Indonesia and Malaysia, because of concern it could fuel a regional arms race at a time of escalating great power competition, Albanese will characterise the security arrangement between Australia, the US and the UK as “the future”.
But Albanese will acknowledge that plugging capability gaps and contributing to regional stability will also require investments in sovereign defence capability, “including advanced manufacturing”, generating “new jobs, new industries and new expertise in science and technology and cyber”.
Albanese will argue Australia’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies need to be resourced to counter complex threats ranging from foreign interference and “violent extremism in all its forms”.