Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham has criticised Defence Minister Richard Marles for saying his department still has a “way to go” before it achieves excellence as “deeply concerning” but says it’s a “problem of their own making”.
Tensions between Mr Marles and the Department of Defence were revealed yesterday during Question Time after the Opposition called for him to lift his game.
“This is deeply concerning, and it is a serious problem that the Albanese government needs to address rapidly – but it is also a problem of their own making,” Mr Birmingham told Sky News Australia.
“The Albanese government has put Defence into a quagmire of endless reviews, it has cut into the Defence budget, it has shown an inability to make critical investment decisions, and it has shown next to no confidence in defence personnel to deploy them and do the types of jobs they signed up for.
“Little wonder we’re in a situation where decisions are piling up on Richard Marles’ desk, not being actioned.
“It’s little wonder that defence chiefs are at wit’s end with the Minister who is not making decisions, not getting outcomes through the Cabinet and budget process, and is just leaving all the hard capability decisions to pile up with a budget going backwards and defence personnel numbers going backwards as well – they’re walking out the door on him.”
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The World is a far more dangerous place since Russia invaded Ukraine and Labor cuts defence projects and spending,… typical, seen exactly this first hand during the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd era
Most of Labor’s problems are of their own making….
Knuckleheads without a clue …
What could go wrong???
Clueless Albanese is a weak and flabby leader of an untalented party of underachievers.
I am starting to like your videos more and more
Yet another clear marker of this non government shown to be a sewer of nothingness, rotten bunch of failures in every issue..
Ya. Albop plan is to import 1 million more Indians and to make Australia forth world country. Thеn rent will be 1000 per week and salary 500.
Doesn't matter about the minister and the department having the shits on. If we don't get the resources defence needs and the personnel to raise the numbers we are cactus jack.
Sick of hearing about ministers why aren't we given the opportunity to hear from real patriotic Australian soldiers
I saw an article on you tube channel it was written : Your government and the WEF wants to get rid of farmers, because they want you to starve"! I believe that 100% true. SHAME ON ALBANESE AND HIS GOVERNMENT!!!!
Richard Marles is the most incompetent defence minister along with Albo who is the most incompetent Prime Minister and the same goes for the idiots in home affairs and border protection!!! Bloody useless the whole lot of them!!!!
Defence was a disaster a decade ago, now it is disorganised, dysfunctional, totally incapable of generating any rule modern combat power,
This Labour Government INCAPABLE TO GOVERN SUCCESSFULLY TO BRING AUSTRALIA FORWORTH AND SHOULD ALL BE CAST VOTED OUT IMMEDIATELY ☝️🙏☝️
Marles wouldn’t defend Kitching either. He’s a professional capitulator
Marles is the member for Manchuria NOT Corio……..enough said.
The money saved from cancelling that bonkers AUKUS Sub deal would pay for a lot of drones.
Then cancel the 2032 Olympics, Australia's Clayton's BRI, CHAFTA, The Indian Free Trade Agreement, $4.8billion foreign aid……
Put a lawyer in charge of defence! Only labor would be stupid enough 🤮🤮👎🏻❤️🇦🇺
There needs to be a vote of no confidence in the Albanese Govt. Get the Gov General and dissolve this govt
This Country is run by China
This government is bad for our country and will set us back for many years! Labor and the Greens are bad bad bad for our future!
Biden isn’t up for governing anymore and should step aside!
What's more concerning to me is our politicians laying drunk on the sidewalk. And that's our other choice to vote for. Are you doing any stories on that sky, cause if it had been a Labor politicians you'd be airing it 24/7
Richard Marles is not a defence person he is just a politician so he has no idea and just ignores what the experts tell him like all Albos ministers they are useless like their leader!
Australia, once a truly great country and now being torn apart by a govt that is a disgrace to the very people they are supposed to represent. Like NZ under that Ardern disaster may you find your way out if this asap…These individuals should be jailed for treason
Deliberately done… they cutting corners compromise Australians, yet funding terrorists seems higher on the labour islamist sympathisers' priority list… f$&king disgusting
If labour and albanese had their way ,He and his gang of idiots would wave the Chinese right on in to Australia,