I'm curious how many in the entrenched defence bureaucracy or defence-wide voted labor?
Elections have consequences.
What I find funny is anyone that thinks the joke of the 2009 Defence White Paper has value.
I would suggest that if money is low for Defence, that this would be a good time to get rid of the dead wood. That would be the excess of Defence civilians, flag-ranks and senior executive service.
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No Defence member I've met votes Labor.
Greg Sheridan continues to harp about declining defence expenditure as related to GDP whereas it has actually increased in recent years as a percentage of Federal Government revenue.
Like many in the commentariat, he is not acknowledging the real problems, these being the wholly unrealistic and unaffordable big defence spend initiated by Howard, to which Rudd said 'me too', and a shambolic Defence organisation that needs dismantling/refining (especially DMO). Accountability must be restored by making the Service Chiefs responsible for management of their own projects.
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