When Canberra told us we had to join the US in its cruel attempt to prevent a Vietnamese peasant army from overthrowing a US-armed Saigon government, some of us thought the politicians were plain stupid.

When they told us the men on bicycles wearing rubber sandals were the puppets of a China seeking to thrust further in our direction, stupid seemed too kind a word.

But today when we are told we have to pay the US billions to buy nuclear submarines to keep those Chinese at bay........

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