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Australia needs nuclear submarines – but not AUKUS
Australia needs nuclear submarines – but not AUKUS
By Michael Keating, Jon Stanford
Australia needs a larger, self-reliant nuclear-powered submarine force, but AUKUS is too costly, too dependent on the US and too uncertain to deliver it.
Aged care report card: 4/10 – not good enough
When menopause becomes a digital marketplace
Population growth, environment and Australia’s economy
A visit to the West Bank: homeland and legal apartheid – part four
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