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Australian PM commits funding to upgrade home port of Antarctic icebreaker

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CANBERRA, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has committed new funding to upgrade the home port of the country's Antarctic icebreaker.

Albanese on Wednesday announced 188 million Australian dollars (125.8 million U.S. dollars) in funding over four years for the Australian Antarctic Program (AAP) to build a new wharf in Hobart, capital of the island state of Tasmania, for the research/