"Well, there's one country in the region that's undergone the biggest peacetime militarization since the Second World War and that's the People's Republic of China," said Australian Shadow Defense Minister Andrew Hastie. "So they can make comments like they have, but it's kind of ironic given what they're doing with their military."
"He is commenting on an outcome he doesn't yet know," the British ambassador to Australia said of Peter Dutton's comments praising American, rather than UK, subs.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
Pat Conroy, Australian minister for defense industry, said former minister Peter Dutton is "either being mischievous or he's not privy to the latest information."
It was a busy week in Australian politics, with accusations of Chinese meddling in the opposition Labor party and a text message scandal.