Introduction

Daniel Hearst, Guardian Australia's Foreign Affairs and Defence Correspondent. It has been a huge week in Defence and Foreign Affairs must be said with Australia unveiling a plan to spend up to $368 billion on a nuclear powered submarine program over the next few decades. I'm speaking with the Deputy Prime Minister and the Defence Minister Richard Miles who is at the centre of all of those decisions. There are almost limitless questions about how this project is to be achieved, what it means for Australia's place in the world,. What it means for our relationship with China and our allies and partners in the US and the UK. So it was keen to take up all of those issues on behalf of our audience.