Labor extends terms of military leaders after ‘capability’ concerns

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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has raised concerns Labor is “crab walking” away from AUKUS after Defence Minister Richard Marles extended the terms of three senior military leaders.

Mr Marles announced on Tuesday that Defence Force chief General Angus Campbell, Vice Admiral David Johnston and chief of joint operations Lieutenant General Greg Bilton will all remain in their posts.

He said the decision to extend their terms was to ensure continuity adding the Coalition’s decision to sign the AUKUS agreement with the UK and the US had left Australia with the “potential of a very significant capability gap”.

 

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Greens want to cut Australian defence budget in half Labor has history of cutting the defence budget Labor needs the greens to govern What will they want for their support?

The war monger Dutton

Hey PeterDutton_MP the submarines mess happened under your watch, it was the Liberals that created this mess, again!! another Liberal mess for Australia! You had 9 years to something, anything, and you chose to do nothing - 9 years!!!

Mr Dutton scared every Australian in the election with his predictions of war with China Why? So he & the coalition Would stay in power

He’s opposition leader for a reason they lost.

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