Taking four years to announce an AUKUS project? That's embarrassing

Australia's slow-lane approach to national security is showing

Richard Marles’s address to the Shangri-La Dialogue, in which the Australian Defence Minister warned of the threats to vital seabed cables that transmit the digital blood of the global economy, only underlined Labor’s pallid, catch-up mode when it comes to national security.

That it has taken the government four years to come up with a ‘first-ever’ progr…