Last June, while Nato leaders and partners gathered in New York to discuss the threat from Russia and China, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese went to Leichhardt Oval to make what he described as ‘a very exciting announcement’.
The federal government had committed $20 million to upgrade facilities at the ‘iconic venue’, which sits in Albanese’s inner-western Sydney electorate.
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Nick Cater is senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre.
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