Enter Rudd. As prime minister, Rudd was intimately involved in shaping the 2009 defence white paper. It wasn't a particularly well written document, but its strategic assumptions were hard headed and sound, and it provided a highly credible force structure - 100 Joint Strike Fighters, 12 capable, long-range subs, an eight battalion army - and a sensible funding commitment of a 3 per cent real increase a year out towards the end of the decade. Had the government stuck to that commitment it still would have been hard put to realise the white paper's ambitions, but it would have had a chance. Some extra money may have been necessary, some time lines may have been extended, but we would be on the road to a good, though not extravagant, defence capability.
Bold emphasis mine.
Pretty desperate if the only person they can come up with to save a political disaster is Rudd. He would have to do a swan dive to have any hope of pulling his party out of the crapper.
"Just f*#*king hopeless..."
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Rudd might be like a potential labor f35 pilot. 'Detected stronger liberal enemy in area, can't win, better leave before engagement'
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