Indeed, why would China bring a massive armada to conquer Australia, famously known for being checks notes over 2/3 worthless desert and what? 1k km away from literally everything else that matters?
Also based answer. Stupid reporter: "China is building ships is that not provocation?"
Gee moron what is the US doing then? Never mind everyone else or is China the only ones not allowed to have a military? He should have pointed out all the US bases around the pacific including the occupied Japan/Korean.
Both those countries have regular protests against these bases and yet having them against the will of the natives is not provocation lol.
Anyway Australia is shitty US vassal so none of this is surprising.
I will say Albanese (our current guy) looks very stable, He's a left Labor guy but governing from the Right of the party in policy, so he's stable internally, and If he can face down the Murdoch Press and push the new advisory council for First Nations (another story) through a referendum he'll have the Liberals in the wilderness. The Libs are already reeling because the centre-right Intelligentsia split the party and formed a loose "Teal" coalition.