Bill Shorten slams warning that Australia could be at war within three years

Suggestions that Australia could be at war with China within three years have been shot down by the government. National security experts made the alarming claim in a report commissioned by the Nine Newspapers. The panel warned that Australia was not prepared for a conflict in its near future, but Government Services Minister Bill Shorten dismissed the report as "hot and fevered discussion". "I'm not going to start speculating or inflaming any war talk this morning over breakfast," the Labor frontbencher told Nine. "It's important we stabilise our relationship with China." Camera Icon Bill Shorten slammed the reporting as 'hot…