Our national motto, From Sea to Sea, celebrates our oceans and our coastline - the longest in the world, enough to circle the equator six times.
But for too long we have done defence, especially of our waters, on the cheap. We spend about 1.4 per cent of GDP: well behind the United States (4.7 per cent), the United Kingdom (2.6 per cent) and even Australia (1.7 per cent). In terms of usable naval power we are situated in the bottom half of the second 10.
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