Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles responds to Chinese spy balloon


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Australians have been assured that no spy balloons have been detected flying in our airspace after US President Joe Biden broke his silence on his surveillance row with China. Defence Minister Richard Marles said Australian authorities had advised him they had found no aerial surveillance vehicles such as the balloon downed by the US fighter pilots earlier this month. “But the important point to know is this. We have the capacity to track any such balloon and we have got the capacity to deal with it,” Mr Marles told Today on Friday. “I think Australians should have confidence about that.”...