Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has urged the government to bolster Australia's defences forces as quickly as possible, including looking into acquiring submarines off the production line.
The former defence minister says while the trilateral AUKUS partnership with the United Kingdom and United States would underpin Australia's national security for the next five to six decades, submarines to fill the nation's capability gap were needed as soon as possible.
"The reality is, we need those submarines and we need them quickly. And the quickest way to acquire them is to take them off the production line out of the United States," Mr Dutton said.
