"This would diversify our trade away from China , improve our balance of trade
and potentially make Aus one of the wealthiest countries in the world."
In a perfect world that would happen , however why would China need to trade as without a defense force there would be no impediment for the Indonesians and or Chinese to walk there way from Darwin to Sydney just like Cook and his compatriots did to the Aboriginals 200 years ago , so instead of trading muskets for food and then taking the land it would be trading iron ore for cars and then without resistance taking the land
