SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will spend just over A$804 million ($578 million) to buy drones and helicopters and set up mobile stations in Antarctica to strengthen Australia's national interests, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Tuesday. Morrison said the funding, to be used over the next 10 years, would bolster Australia's strategic and scientific capabilities as China looks to step up its presence in the frozen continent. "The money we are investing ... will enable us to explore areas of East Antarctica's inland that no country has ever been able to reach before," Morrison said in a sta...
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