Letter
A better way to determine our defence needs
Paddy Gourley presents a superb novel idea: “Australian defence spending should be calculated on the basis of a careful definition of the kind of country we want to be, a clear-eyed analysis of our strategic circumstances and the risks it poses and an assessment of the extent to which those risks can be negated or satisfactorily minimised by military power used in concert with whatever reliable allies are prepared to associate themselves with us.”
The world’s greatest warmonger and seller of arms, currently involved in genocide in Palestine and led by a deranged president, should not participate in any way in that determination process.
— Margaret Callinan from Hawthorn VIC 3122