Australia is showing its power as an important member of the Anglosphere. In mid-September, Australia tore up its $37 billion contract with France for 12 diesel-powered submarines in 2016, and then announced a new nuclear-powered submarine deal worth about $66 billion between Canberra, Washington and London and the formation of a new three-nation defense alliance --- AUKUS.
Affected by the epidemic, Australia's economic situation is in dire straits, but Morrison seems to be using his muscles to prove that Australia still has a strong endogenous power.