A US$3 billion finance facility, a warship keel-laying and a new AUKUS shipbuilding hub landed in the same fortnight, one of the clearest signs yet that Canberra wants to build, fund and commercialise its own defence technology rather than simply buy it. On 28 August 2026, the Australian government stood up a new A$4.2 billion […]
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