Defence budget - more camouflage

DEFENCE spending has been spared further savage cuts in this year's Budget with a likely boost of up to $1.2 billion.

Opposition spokesman Stuart Robert said even if the Defence budget was restored to 1.6 per cent of GDP - from 1.56 per cent now - it would still be the lowest relative spending since the 1930s.

Sergeant Major to corporal Smith: "I didn't see you at camouflage training this morning!"

Smith: "Thank you sir!"

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Comments

[Allan]

1.

Based upon past performance and derogatory comment we have a Defence Minister that doesn't like the Defence Establishment and a defence bureaucracy awash with doctorates that have no experience, worldly, life or any other kind that would be appropriate.

In an age where armed conflict is rife and terrorism a stark reality and where we hear Indonesia promising to "outgun" Australia, a ratbag in Korea promising to give all and sundry a taste of nuclear destruction, our defence services have become a joke.

What a 'jolly good idea' it was to cut defence spending in order to fill the black hole into which any hope of a budget surplus has disappeared. Seems that the 'jolly good idea' didn't go down too well with voters so now we will fool them by putting back $1.2b. That will shut them up and we will get a few more votes out of it.

Relatively speaking, if defence spending was 3% of the GDP then Australia would be just about keeping up.

[Brian Richard Allen]

2.

Apart from the wanton Wicked Witch of Waddling, herself, no one more efficaciously represents the lack of intelligence, aptitude, imagination and/or ability and/or the moral bankruptcy of the component bits of the JuLiar Gang, than does the little fascist, Herr Smith.

Except for the every other.