In a stark warning on Australia’s defence capabilities, Mr Morrison said no country could counter a Chinese attack amid a ratcheting up of Beijing’s aggression in the Indo-Pacific.
“We’re a country of just over 25 million people, their defence budget is multiple, multiple, multiple times that of Australia’s. Mr Morrison said the defence budget needs to amount to 2.5 per cent of GDP which would represent a sizeable increase after the Albanese government invested $48.7 billion in the October budget or just shy of 2 per cent of Australia’s GDP.
“If we think that just doing that would actually protect Australia without what is arguably the even more urgent task is to ensure that those interlocking alliances and partnerships and alignments are in place.In the Sky News Australia special investigation ‘Are We Ready for War?’ military, strategic and diplomatic experts from the US, Australia and Taiwan warned that a Chinese cross-strait invasion was increasingly likely.
The former prime minister also declared China was chasing “hegemony” in the Indo-Pacific and argued the West did not resist Beijing’s encroachment in the region.
Well Derrrr
Sky must be desperate to take advice from Morrison when he was the dill that stuffed any “resist” needed.
Is that why we're buying equipment to attack other nations miles from home? Will do zero to defend Australia as the premise of this nonsense story suggests we need
Blind Freddie can see that. Doesn’t take an ex-PM to say it.
Calculus. What are you talking about. China would wipe out the ADF in days
Isn't there an opposition defence spokesperson?