The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan says Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles “hasn’t delivered anything” in defence.
Mr Sheridan’s remarks come after he suggested in his column on Tuesday that AUKUS might never materialise.
“It’s very simple, any nation in history which has gone down the nuclear submarine route has to spend a lot more money – they’re very expensive,” Mr Sheridan told Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell.
“If you don’t spend that money, but you keep your defence budget constant, you end up cannibalising all your other capabilities.
“We are wasting $50 billion a year to produce virtually no significant military capabilities.”
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Didn't he sent loads of stuff to Ukraine. 👍👍👍
It's by design how can know see that we have a parade ground army you couldn't find to wipe out
Goose over paid
He may have delivered with his golfing handicap. Marles the 3.6 million dollar man.
The best response that Australians can give to apartheid albo and his high flying mates is to vote no to the racist voice.
Labor may not kill off AUKUS directly, though many in the party want it to fail. They know it is largely popular in the electorate, so they will just starve Defence of funds and let it wither on the vine.
As soon as that twit Stephen Smith was appointed to head up our strategic review I knew we were in trouble. How do these people sleep at night, knowing they are so inept? Surely their partners whisper in their ears "maybe it's time to spend more time with your family"
Yeah ,Then what about the $$$ spent on war gear to our American British Suck Arse mates ??? What about the $$$ and war gear given to NAZI HULYCHUNI POLARK UKRAINE to NATO that Australia is NOT a member . Then how much taxpayer funded spent on airfare $$$ ??? Yep ,This bastard a real asset to Australian politics . and Australia . I mean ,I feel real safe 26 million people telling 4.5 Billion people how to live .threatening Trade with our most valued trade partner China . Yep Our government , REAL ASSET TO AUSTRALIA . Big future to our young ones >?????? and thats the way i see it . Andrej Kondisenko Cairns Australia
Labor never does.
Marles fits into the Labour Party perfectly…
All dumb ideas and absolutely no results…
And don’t forget to cost the country a fortune!
The 3 AWD's by themselves are way more capable then any fleet we have had ever. Each Hobart has 48 VLS cells and this is the equivalent to the entire former Adelaide class fleet. They have a radar system well beyond anything we previously had and they are being upgraded to the latest version of that system. We still have 8 x Anzacs which are way more capable now then they were 10 years ago with there ceafar radars. The Hobarts also carry 8 harpoons and eventually will get the NSM launchers as well. The Hunters will be a great upgrade over the Anzacs and will most likely have 48 VLS cells instead of only 32 on the british version of the ship. So it is a lie that we are not as capable now as we were back when.
Sadly history tells us nothing will change until Australia is invaded, conquered and then freed. Every country that's relied on another country has been let down.
He is 💯 percent right the only thing the albo government has delivered is higher prices for every day Australian's and massive pay rises for the politicians its an absolute joke
Sack him
Marles is a criminal politician as is all the labor politician beginning with the mean girls GALLAGHER, PING PONG WONG, KENNEALY, PLEBESICK, what a disgrace these maggots are
All Marles and Labor have delivered is a DSR which was a smoke and mirrors exercise to give them an excuse to cut Defence to the bone !!
They the labor party are all duds oh sorry he spends money on his flights to the football. He needs to be accoutible
Poor old navy is terrible.
They nuclear submarines but not nuclear power what is the problem
We aren't buying subs we are renting them at what cost to the tax payer
How can anyone even contemplate attacking a country with a voice to parliament? I mean to say, give them a break. They probably believe it…
Richard has delivered something; he has ensured the air readiness of Air Force planes by using them as his personal transport.
If AUKUS falls over soon after Albanese's China visit our long term future will involve kissing some serious CCP ass! Even Ukraine's donations of military equipment are coming straight out of the defence budget Marles gives me nothing but Baghdad Bob vibes and that guy was happy to calmly maintain Iraq was being successfully defended against "Shock and Awe" while Abrams tanks were just a few hundred meters away from him!
His been delivering blowies and state secrets to his chinese mates.
The PM of PR & BS, leads, loosely speaking, a collective of misfits in this Labor/Greens-Teals disaster for our country, no surprise here, ask Indigenous Minister of disaster what has been achieved in 18 months in that portfolio, same as Defence, experts in achieving nothing about anything, fronting up with the taxpayer funded script writers A4's for any given day thinking the Australian taxpayer & voter still believes the "Plan". AUKUS, another unfolding story of fiction, don't forget RUDD was sent to look after our interests. AUSTRALIA IS WAKING UP…
It should be the Opposition pointing this out, not Greg Sheridan. Our politicians are hopeless and captive to vested interests and routinely voted by sheeple.
But he sure has sucked up a bunch of money doing it .
Militant Australian Nazi. Absolutely crazy calls. The ratio of the forces of the AU army on the territory of the AC including US military personnel against BRICS is approximately 1 to 10,000. In any scenario of an attack on China from the US bases around China, the AU must and will be destroyed.
Lawyer Richard Marles Minister of War? Like a bullet made of shit.
Marles has been too busy racking up frequent flyer miles to be able to actually deliver anything.
Why would marles boost defence when Albanese and Wong are opening the front door for Ping
Victoria is already the southern most port for the CCP
Albanese Intends to Go Crawling to China. We need Patrol Boats Off Qld and Up in the Torres Strait. Planes etc. Its Embarrassing. He is WEAK as is Richard Marles. This is Dangerous to Australia 🇦🇺