Defence Minister Richard Marles says the defence policy of the Coalition is “stuck in 2022”.
Mr Marles said the Coalition was “secretly stripping” billions of dollars from defence when it was still in power.
“But what’s worse is that the Defence Strategic Review revealed that in the last five years of their government, they effectively cut $20 billion from defence,” he said during Question Time on Thursday.
“Secretly stripping billions of dollars out of defence through a strategic reserve adjustment – when you take it all back, they cut defence spending; we’re increasing it.
“The empty hypocrisy of what they say has also been revealed with the Red Sea – for the last few months they’ve been saying if ever asked, they would send a ship to the Red Sea, but it turns out when they were asked when the leader of the Opposition was in charge, they said no.”
Defence policy of Coalition is ‘stuck in 2022’
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