Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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The global rules-based order has been upended and tensions are rising in the Indo Pacific.

How prepared is Australia for what might come next?

And why is the US so interested in our remote northern bases?

Two of the most strategically important bases are Darwin and Tindal, where ABC defence and national security correspondent Tom Lowrey has been given rare access behind the wire and inside the bunkers.

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