By John Blaxland*
Cockburn Sound, a calm waterway tucked behind an island near Fremantle in Western Australia, is about to become much better known thanks to the trilateral technical agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, known as AUKUS. To echo the sentiment of my late colleague Professor Desmond Ball, after Pine Gap this military base on the southwestern coast of Australia facing the Indian Ocean could be described as the second “suitable piece of real estate”. (The Lowy Institute. The Interpreter.)
