Well, there are a few sane people. Defence spending as a percentage of GDP was always a dumb argument. Especially for such a poorly managed portfolio. Of the $26B per year, $10B is wasted on things that give no value to the defence of the nation.
Small Australia is hundreds of billions in debt thanks to the spend-thrift ways of the last government.
With Australia's ever-growing entitlement society, Defence gets what it gets, as a percentage of the federal budget, after all the centrelink types are taken care off. And with that, we also do not need corporate welfare for Defence companies. Especially foreign-owned Defence companies.
As an aside, you may hear the percent of GDP for Defense spending crowd in the U.S.
Out of the whole of the U.S. federal budget, 27 percent goes to the DOD. Much of it on poorly thought out programs and dumb wars.
For a nation $17T in debt and on the hook for another $100T.
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-New Defence White Paper fails to address Australia's core security needs
-2009 Defence White Paper Fantasy
-Analysing "The ADF Air Combat Capability- On the Record"
-Find out who is responsible for the Air Warfare Destroyer mess
-Analysis of Defence Materiel Organisation Major Projects Management and What Needs to be Fixed
-New DMO Boss warns the staff that business as usual is over
-How dangerous is the Defence Material Organisation to our Defence Industry?
-Australia's Failing Defence Structure and Management Methodology
-More on the dud-jamming gear Defence wants to buy
-ADF cost per flying hour
-I will wipe out bullying vows new Defence chief (Houston 2005)
-Vacancy
-Put Vol 2 Report of DLA Piper Review into the light of day
-Rory and Jim
-Parasitism as an Abstraction for Organizational Dysfunctions
-Hobart-class "Air Warfare Destroyer" to be fielded with obsolete radar guidance technology
-The Decay Of Critical Military Thinking And Writing-With Particular Reference To The RAAF
-Newspaper guy gets it right about sub project.... big time
-The great M-1 tank myth
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