Leaders in northern WA are lobbying for defence facilities such as missiles and large-scale bases to be built to protect the region's $100 billion export industries.
Mr Long said Australia was dealing with anand called for a bigger military presence to deter potential threats from directing aggression at local gas and mining assets.
The Ashburton Shire is a member of the NWDA and will lobby for a new defence base at the coastal town of Onslow. He said the proposed base would reduce Defence's reliance on the Henderson Naval Base more than 1,000 kilometres south in the Perth suburb Kwinana. Northern Australia strategic policy expert John Coyne said the region was important to national security and forward planning was required.
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