Australia is prepared for Chinese spies off our coast

Australia is prepared for Chinese spies off our coast as troops take part in the biggest military exercises on home soil. Allies from around the world have been deployed for Talisman Sabre and military rivals are watching on.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's the biggest gathering of international ground forces in Australia
since the Second World War. Forty thousand personnel from nineteen
countries training to operate as one unified force.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
We're going to operate together, integrate together, cooperate, collaborate.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
As black Hawk's buzz to Harbor Bridge Exercise, Talisman Saber
was officially launched from the decks of Australia's biggest ship,
HMAS Adelaide.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's been about seven hundred days of planning in its
twentieth year.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Talisman includes forces from Australia, the US, UK, Germany, Japan, Indonesia,
South Korea. It's been called the Military Olympics with an insistence.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
It's about prevention, not provocation.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
It's effectively a deterrent mechanism because our ultimate goal is
no war.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
It started today with the first ever live fire of
Australia's new high rockets, also revealing they'll be testing these
submarine drones, a game changer for naval warfare.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
We are doing several innovative experimental things here.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Talisman Saber is the biggest, most complex, most important military
exercise Australia is involved in. Nineteen nations coming together to
send a loud, clear message to one China.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
With Chinese spy ships predicted to shadow.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's fully expected, it's catered for in the planning.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
That they appear to be running late, there is no
sign yet Chris Reason seven News