Shadow home affairs minister Simon Birmingham has criticised the government's defence announcement, accusing Labor of 'shuffling money around without putting real priority on hard critical investments'.
Shadow home affairs minister Simon Birmingham has criticised the government's defence announcement, accusing Labor of"shuffling money around without putting real priority on hard critical investments". unveiled the government's plan to increase Australian Defence Force spending to 2.
"This is an investment strategy that leaves far more questions about where the cuts to defence are lying than it does answers about where the actual investments are going to occur. "In this announcement this week we saw that big figures were used, but then all of them pushed beyond the forward estimates of the budget, beyond the immediate scrutiny of any information about how or where the government is truthfully going to invest," he said.
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