That sounds like a lot of money. Does the Australian Government have that much money? I’m no expert on this and I’m not an Australian but I think their coffers are empty and their balance sheet is negative.
You are trolling. Australian Government revenue was AU$755.8 billion in 2023, net assets of AU$790 billion and a budget surplus of AU$18 billion in 2023/24.
OK so probably one in ~Darwin (because gateway hub for Pine Gap), one in ~Canberra (because capital) and one in ~Adelaide (because center of the industry).
Careful, now. (Remembering the guy that put the D-day landing beaches in a crossword puzzle, prior to the invasion.)
Haha. I'm sure any intel agency worth its salt can do better than my supposition. Sleeping on it, I realised that since Singapore is presumably a major five eyes sigint hub there is likely an additional attraction to Darwin re. reduced latency access and reduced transit costs for newly captured undersea cable data from Asia.