https://youtu.be/Fd37buEbho8?si=Twfn5kwQOd0YYXGg

It seems that Marles and Albanese disagree on defence, and the Greens continue to be wan kers. Cop Albanese in the Mao suit.

The Chinese government doesn't make a move, until they have consulted with the silly Old Fart from South Australia. He must be an "insider", down there in his bedsit, the other side of Nowhere. At least his comments are worth a laugh. The Chinese are "livid", the Old Fart "suspects", its all "contempt".

ASPI Director Peter Jennings rightly points that it is “shame” (disgrace really) that it takes an outsider (Pete Hegseth) to get our government to talk about the defence of our country.

Obviously things have to be done the Australian way, but it is well past the time that the Albanese pulled out his finger and did the job of leadership that he has squibbed on for the last three years, and looks like doing nothing for the next three years,only now with almost no Opposition to ginger him up.

I watched an interview with The Australian's foreign editor Greg Sheridan who had some interesting things to say about Albanese's “balderdash” recently about defence.

Sheridan, like many other commentators and people generally, finds it “hard to trust” anything the government tells us on defence. We only found out about Hegseth's call for Australia to spend 3.5% on defence from a Pentagon briefing; and Albanese is doing his best to suppress information from ASPI.

Sheridan also pointed out the bleeding obvious that, unlike Europe, Australia has no close allies, yet we are doing nowhere enough to defend ourselves.

He also advised that it takes 300 days for anyone interested in enlisting in the services to receive a response.

We now know that Marles lied when the ABC asked him what figure Pete Hegseth had put on the request for more defence spending. Marles said ‘no figure’. Hegseth got wind of the lie, and promptly said that he had suggested 3.5% of GDP, ASAP.

President Trump said on TV tonight, “If you are not going to pay your bills we are not going to defend you”.

Former Head of Army General Peter Leahy announced that, without the US, we would be almost defenceless.

Albanese has ignored him too. He has ignored ASPI. He has ignored former Air Force Chief Air Marshall Geoff Brown, Angus Houston and Dennis Richardson.

Albanese presumes to know better than all these experts in defence and warfare.

We don't need to be told how much to spend on militarism by some Trumpster blow in from America. Australians firmly rejected Trumpism at the election. Also we don't need the advice of old has-been saber rattlers, warmonger's and alike, ex-army, ex-navy whatever. Can anyone tell me where Australia would find an extra $40 or $50 billion to fund this nonsense, where would the cuts be made?