This is an interesting read of how one person sees things.
It appears to be the opinion of someone who thinks wealth and personal well being can only be provided by the government.
"Most voters are far more concerned with employment and living standards, health services and education than with defence."
If only the government was not screwing every single one of those items up, where, "How can I rort the system?" is the order of the day.
Thus far, all this ethics-free style of government has done is to put a yoke around the taxpayer's neck to the tune of hundreds of billions in debt from what was previously, a surplus.
What did we get for all that debt? No return on investment. Defence sucks. Education sucks. Health services? Well, the nanny-state lives. Including funding unsustainable breeding.
All supported by a very small, over-taxed workforce.
Like the good socialists that many of them are, big-government fans will run out of other peoples money.
But back to the main topic of the article.
The author thinks DFAT needs more money.
"The work of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is our first line of defence."
Many people would question that given that you can only negotiate against aggression from a position of strength.
And our biggest enemy?
Our own citizens working in government.
It is they who have deskilled Defence and turned it into a grand office of extortion of the taxpayer. It is they who have weakened our national Defence posture.
The author is right to question the troubled F-35 program and dreamland submarines.
For example, there is no complete, working F-35. And even if it works someday, its requirement (crafted in the 1990s and signed off at the beginning of the last decade) is flawed.
Just like the requirement for the replacement subs known as SEA1000. The requirements in SEA1000 can only be operationally met by a U.S.-made Virginia class attack submarine. I am not advocating this sub. I am stating that the requirement for SEA1000 is garbage.
And a rent-seekers dream.
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