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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Peter Lewis

Selling the Aukus deal to the public presents clear challenges for the Labor government

Penny Wong and Wang Yi bump elbows
Penny Wong and China's foreign minister Wang Yi. ‘Labor’s challenge is to integrate Australia’s military into the British and US nuclear technologies while continuing the rebuild of our most significant economic relationship.’ Photograph: Johannes P Christo/AFP/Getty Images

Recently my stream’s algorithm served me up Pine Gap, a gripping if sometimes slow-moving geopolitical drama that I managed to miss when it first aired on Aunty in 2018.

Set around the joint US-Australia surveillance facility near Alice Springs, the series paints in the grey spaces that lie at the heart of our most significant alliance on a national, professional and personal canvas.

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