Ballooning defence spending over the coming years will be a major challenge for the new federal government. 9News
over the coming years will be a major challenge for the new federal government, with many big-ticket projects eating up billions of dollars.
The figure - which included the Department of Defence and the Australian Signals Directorate - equates to a daily cost of $133,191,781, the report said. The move by the former Morrison government led to the controversial scrapping of an agreement to acquire French-designed conventional submarines. It pointed to incidents over the past months involving the People's Liberation Army in our region such as its "state-of-the-art" naval surveillance ships transiting through the Arafura Sea and Torres Strait off northern Australia and the lasering of an Australian surveillance plane by a Chinese warship.China has the world's largest navy in the world and can reach anywhere in the Asia Pacific.