..."percentage of GDP—simply stupid for an organisation which wastes billions with impunity"

Senator Mark Bishop did not win his seat.

Here are some interesting comments on the entrenched defence bureaucracy from his adjournment speech (PDF here) on the 18th of March.

The commitment to education and defence, for example, is measured purely in those terms without any real measurable outcomes—just continuing waste and extravagance. Defence is probably the classic, where policy righteousness is still today judged by funding as a percentage of GDP—simply stupid for an organisation which wastes billions with impunity, refuses to reform, is accountable in no way and has never addressed productivity or changed its institutional structure to suit more modern times.

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