Nuclear subs,B52s, but no warheads not even stored here?  Just dinky toys to play and warn with? We seem to have an American mindset, not a Pacific Regional one and are hair-trigger-armed.

In an arc of militarisation across northern Australia, successive Australian governments, in close concert with the United States, have responded to the rise of a newly assertive China in terms that constitute an almost historically irrevocable opposition to any accommodation with China as a regional great power.

Source: Prepping for a China war: the new arc of militarisation across northern Australia – Pearls and Irritations