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Threaten to kick them out of Pine Gap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap
Man, it’s insane that you let a hostile, overtly evil foreign power openly operate a spy network in your nation.
australia doesn’t really have a lot of choices: we have a population the size of texas in an area almost the size of the whole US… there’s just no hope of protecting that without help
our only bargaining chips are: space, location, and the huge amount of natural resources
America would probably launch a land invasion of Australia before they ever let Pine Gap go. Previous attempts were met with harsh penalties from the US.