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With foreign minister Penny Wong and defence minister Richard Marles busy on the European diplomatic/defence circuit with a big meeting in the UK later today, Anthony Albanese has given us an interview in which he suggests he would always have signed up to the Aukus pact, and discusses how Labor intends to deal with “an insecure world”. The prime minister’s comments set him against an illustrious Labor predecessor, Paul Keating, who has argued that the pact diminishes Australia’s strategic sovereignty. But Albanese says Aukus has to be part of the country’s new defence capability both with partnerships and new weapons systems.
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