US military rapidly building up Australia's northern bases amid South China Sea tensions
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Pagkakataon sa pagkakataon sa pagkakataon sa pagkakataon sa pagkakataon.
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Pagkakataon sa pagkakataon sa pagkakataon sa pagkakataon sa pagkakataon sa pagkakataon.
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for fast jets to take off and land.
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What we're moving towards is a multi-purpose base
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so we're going to be big enough to take any aircraft in the world
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and to park and fly every different variant of aircraft.
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So there's runway increases, fuel increases
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and a whole bunch of other facilities that are being worked on as well.
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So we're not focusing on particular aircraft.
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We're making sure we're able to facilitate all aircraft.
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Obviously the US is a key partner in the infrastructure works that we've got going on
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and they're building facilities that will meet the needs
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All of the ranges of aircraft that they provide.
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Tindal is geographically really important.
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We are in the north of Australia
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so we have a greater reach into our near region
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and we also have the ability to avoid cyclones
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by being that little bit further inland.
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So that weather that can impact our capacity to respond to incidents
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is not something that we suffer from here in Tindal
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to the extent that they do in Darwin.
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So that does make this location vitally important.
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Working up here in the NT,
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it does definitely pose some problems
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getting plant people and equipment up here and to stay here.
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But generally, we've had some very good subcontractors here
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and it's gone very well so we've been very lucky.
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It doesn't make any sense that when I'm in the UK,
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I'm talking for itself and the base land is included in that budget.
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You can sit down and, you're being treated with respect,
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it doesn't make any sense that D51 National Solar pharmacicism
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or be treated as private property.
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We are all in it for each other,
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not just when you're looking at the conditions of the world,
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but when you're really away when we're talking about this kind of place model.
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the defense area you know and you know i mean it's a practical argument now that you know
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we should be successful in this having having defended our land through those policies and
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laws and customs that that's provided by the government so you know we should be able to
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maintain our land and that day being being being developers go south
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so yes darwin is absolutely uh again what we call key terrain
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um for us to bring to help bring stability to the region um it gives us you know access to uh
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the southern obviously the southern portion of those islands that you
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mentioned that we're going to be able to bring stability to the region
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earlier um through a nation in which we have close uh sovereign ties with um you know our
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governments are aligned uh our militaries are aligned so it really is just a prime area for
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the marine corps to be able to come and train train with uh the australian defense forces
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and gain access to the region
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so in support of our you know my rotational force and future rotations
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uh the united states uh paid to have larger fuel storage uh put in place at raft darwin
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in support of our aviation assets um as well as uh that that's done and then the next project is
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to expand the parking apron for the mv-22 ospreys
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uh to to give them more space uh even around the busy airport that is uh darwin and raft darwin
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uh so we're we're more focused on uh again that interoperability with the australian
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defense forces how can we uh project power from northern australia into the region uh working
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with uh the philippine defense forces uh again papua new guinea timor leste indonesia etc
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they they apologize to us emotionally it's notavi myself the other 29 femaleDavid
