The Coalition’s defence plans are a kneejerk, impossible dream when what we need is achievable policy | Allan Behm

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Increased spending is just another way of throwing up our hands, refusing to deal with the present and showing our inability to deal with the futurePoliticians do not do irony well, especially when they are on the ropes.How else can one understand the Coalition’s invertebrate media release two days before Anzac Day – commemorating over 100,000 Australian war dead – which outlines a defence plan that could put Australians at risk in the dystopian world the policy is supposed to fix? Continue reading...

Increased spending is just another way of throwing up our hands, refusing to deal with the present and showing our inability to deal with the future.