Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson has taken aim at Richard Marles for being a “weak” Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister.
Mr Paterson joined Sky News Australia to discuss the government’s approach to defence.
“The great problem with this government when it comes to defence is a total lack of urgency,” he told Sky News Australia.
“A total failure to appreciate just how serious our circumstances are.
“This is just what we’ve come to expect from Labor in office when it comes to defence.”
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Yeah well here you go, voters don't go far enough to "Select the Candidate Best Qualified for the Job", what we have now in Labor/Greens-Teals set of collective misfits are political idea logs, not qualified & this is a perfect example, then you have the PM of PR & BS/Marrickville Mugger/Mr Pants on Fire, never had the experience to do anything apart from political shafting, proving that daily, WAKE UP AUSTRALIA…Vote them out, start with Dunkley.
Marles has Sunak on speed dial – incase Albo is in the car.
The whole Government is weak! All US puppets!
James Paterson cannot talk, he is just a shiver looking for a spine to crawl up 😱
We should not be invoved in the Ukraine war,its a money laundering project,poking the bear( russia) and its UN agendas,we should not be funding terrorists in Gaza.
Funny thing when army play there war games they use blank ammo not live ammo all relates back to work place heath and safety what a joke
ADF performs best in peace time
Words words words and show show but really no show. They could buy American Constellation-class Frigates + Training + ILS support right now that would replace the ANZAC Frigates over the next 5 years. if they were really serious. But this is all mute if you don't have the crews. The Liberals should be slamming them on this.
Come on James…the West should feel assured that it is in the safe hands of a Catholic and Khazar Ashkenazi Jewish mafia homosexual elite that tell us they are so much smarter than the rest of us in politics, the media and judicary. The only problem is that they are on the Andy Warhol end of the boy loving (now altar boy) idea of war ready Spartans.
Typical another useless polly
They are Worried about Climate and Emmissions NOT WAR in Our Pacific! There Must be a Vote of NO CONFIDENCE in this Government… They are Testing the Line. And those people who Arrived were ALL MEN and All very Healthy and Well Fed.
Never…….ever……..vote Labor
MARLES is a GRUB, just like his LABOR GRUB MATES
What Australia needs is not to funnel billions to defence contractors for a handful of wonder weapons, but a citizen militia with access to millions of hard hitting weapons including simple drones.
Time for Myles to step down for what he has does to our defences what a weak leader he has become and our defence personnel are leaving because of their lack of leadership and has no understanding what we need are defence.
How about Myles you give your wages back because I the real world you would have been sacked by now but hide under the government and your party when you fail Australia and especially the defence
Coalition think tank. "Well that is settled. All politicians asked to appear on Sky News as guest of their bevy of shock jocks will stick to these lines…. Always call Labor politicians "Weak" from the prime minister down. Always be negative, even when their policies are better than ours. Never admit to our own faults and spread confusion and mis truths whenever possible. Look stern and serious."
Patterson carrying out instructions.
The LNP left an absolute shit fight for the Labor Government. The ADF Leadership was there under LNP. Angus Campbell became the CDF on 6th of July 2018. Guess who was in power. The LNP. STFU LNP. You had your chance and blew it. At least Labor are trying to get the Navy new ships. LNP also made the decision to go with French Subs. How'd that go? They f%6k everything they touch. I hope Marles sacks the CDF and Chiefs. It needs an overhaul.
List of LNP defence decisions- How did they turn out
Failed Seasprite program
French Tiger Helicopters that took 8 years to get operational and are getting retired early
MRH90 program which didn't make it half way. Getting buried in a hole.
French Nuclear submarine decision
Hunter Class Frigates that blew out by 30 billion dollars
Arafura class OPV boats which became a project of concern and have been halted after just 6 builds
Purchase of 2x LHD's that cannot take F35B STOVL aircraft when the Spanish version can.
Add up how much wasted tax money just in these decisions. Absolutely putrid.
It is clear to me that Senior ADF officers have absolutely NFI.
30 Plus years in the Army and Labor have always gutted the ADF. Labor is anti ADF and anti security of Australia and the only time Labor has ever been pro military was WW2 under Curtin.
Could drones to used to patrol the coastline or does some union prevent this because there’d no human on board? It’s 2024, there is technology, why isn’t being used?
current government is fucked.. its fairly obvious
Marles' claim that the ADF must have "a culture of excellence" is eye-wateringly naive. Excellence is a useful culture only when there's time and funds to perform numerous iterations of refinement to achieve a perfect result or product. Australia does not have the time or money for Marles' misguided vision of "excellence". We need to get stuff done… fast.
Labour communist party are the most dangerous party in Australia sack them asap
Xi Jingping has been quoted as telling his military on numerous occasions to "be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027". What happens when the US & China start lobbing projectiles in three or four years time? Do we just sit on our hands and say "Sorry mate, can't help on this occasion… just like the last time you asked for help"?
The whole Labor government is a complete sh-tshow
A complete embarrassment!!!
Marles and Albanese = Economic Incompetence & policy chaos!
This bloke is lies the raaf have stoped flying out of harvy bay 3 plan a week it has stopped 8 weeks ago
Always said this country needs to be at least top 5 in defence budget the area we are in we need ro be a shit load stronger then what we r. Fuck can only man 2 war ships aha 😅 not even any air craft carriers the hell 😮 no working subs.
Army always with crappy gear that is shit n made in china. 😅
Weak and pathetic
Labor has cut back all the services the Army lost over 300 of the new infantry fighting vehicles ,new self propelled guns from 40 odd down to 10. Airforce lost it's extra strike fighters. Navy lost 2 out of 8 new frigates
Arafuras off shore patrol vessels are being cut back pop guns and all. Look out Aukus. Albo and his mates are out to make Australia an unreliable strategic defence partner.
What role have the LNP played in the current state of our defence forces. The LNP were in power or nine years, three prime ministers a collection of defence ministers who fought and squabbled amongst themselves like a bunch of alley cats – just check out the ABC Nemesis program for a blow-by-blow description. They were going to buy Japanese Submarines, then French and then American / British – indecision is the hallmark of their management style – a waste of taxpayer’s time and money. Now we have young Mr. Patterson rubbishing Labor for being unable to sort this mess out in five minutes. Young Mr. Patterson you need to look at your own mess before you rubbish others.
the perfect defence on why australia cant get involved in a taiwan incident or any other.. we have no defence…
The CDF and his cronies have failed on every metric. Personal, Equipment, and readiness. Worst of all most serviceman have no confidence, trust or respect, hence the separation rate.
The PM is a weak, vain, useless unit. Its only natural that everyone under him is much the same.
i get so confused when you have a member of the coalition complaining that Labor isn't acknowledge the urgency of issues… the issues are long standing, if we have urgency now, it's because we haven't acted for the last decade, not just the last 2 years… Coalition say the upped defence spending when taking over from the previous Labor government, but have very little to show for it, ok, more money was being spent, what on?
Fact check on the border protection cuts by the way, even the coalition didn't project the future border budget accurately… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atf3LUQMB7A
Piss poor Marles.
I bet marles is off racking up those frequent flyer points working hard at building our navy up. 🤣🤣🤣