Their most "glorious" action was likely to postpone the replacement of the Collins class submarines to the 2040s - when Xi Jinping would be over 87, a kind of strong signal of Morrison that he did not consider China to be a real threat and did not consider the navy to be relevant today.
I consider the new plan - especially combined with the idea to built the first frigates abroad to be much more sound than the earlier plans, which would have resulted in a replacement of the ANZAC class by the Hunter class to 2040 and would have kept the current numbers of surface combatants.
In contrast to earlier governments, the announcement to order ships abroad was a signal that the ships are more important than jobs
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