QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator SHOEBRIDGE (New South Wales) (14:31): My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, Minister Wong. Reporting from the Guardian and the Nautilus Institute released today has revealed that the US has either direct control of or access to over 100 Australian military bases. This includes US surveillance and intelligence gathering, troop deployment, pre-positioning warfighting assets, fuel hubs, munitions caches and more.

The US has made Australia into a forward operating base. Why have you signed us up to the next US war like this, where, whoever they go to war with, we will inevitably be involved?