Amid Beijing’s Pacific Moves, Upgrade of Far North Marine Precinct ‘Incredibly Important’: Aussie PM

A general view of Cairns, Australia, from above taken on April 16, 2021. Caden Pearson/The Epoch Times

The marine precinct home to Australia’s HMAS Cairns naval base in Far North Queensland will receive $24 million worth of critical upgrades as part of a coalition Liberal-National Party election pledge.

In light of Beijing signing a security pact with the Solomon Islands, a small Pacific island nation just 1,700 kilometres from HMAS Cairns, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the critical upgrades to the marine maintenance precinct were “incredibly important.”