Australian defence force needs more funding to juggle national disasters and military role, inquiry told

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Royal commission hears more frequent natural disasters in Australia will become ‘a major strategic problem in its own right’

The Australian defence force will need a bigger budget to meet growing community expectations that it will help out during natural disasters while maintaining preparedness for a traditional military threat, the royal commission into national natural disaster preparedness has heard.

 

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They could defund the Victorian govt and use that money on the military. Kill two birds with one stone.

No. We arnt at war, we don't intent to invade anyone, have enough to 'protect boarders'. The other tasks that defence does can be given to another workforce. One that can't quickly be flipped into an armed rights-quashing militia of the ruling class.

It always pays to start with the big ticket items. 'Australian Defence Force spends over $10 billion on US arms in four years'...ABC News, Dec 2017 A lot of firefighting equipment right there.

Or you know tackle climate change and this won’t be necessary

They'll just get bested by Emus again..

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