Slow depletion of Australia’s defence capability

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The Gods of the Copybook Headings

Dr Mark Bailey*

For decades Australia spent about 2% of GDP on national insurance – the AD. Nothing bad ever happened, right?

Australia created a delusional brave new world of de-industrialisation in pursuit of luxury beliefs, and now we cannot mobilise. Governments even offshored basic fuel supply (mostly carried in Chinese tankers), and nothing bad has ever happened… oh, wait.

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