Cando - Australia's Voice's Posts

Our government has been surreptitiously bringing in foreign soldiers sailors and airmen. And they're giving them bonuses. Up to $200,000. Meanwhile single Australian soldiers are to lose being reunited with their families at Christmas. A once a year reunion. And unlike government ministers and top bureaucrats, they had to fly economy class. This is a government which has left the country next to defenceless. As a proportion of the Gross National product, we're back to spending about the same as we were in the 1930s. Before the disastrous Collins class submarines are replaced there's going to be another enquiry. This has the advantage of taking any replacement out of the budget for this year. You get it- a saving. And where are the new fighters for the RAAF and the modern artillery for the Army? In the meantime military prosecutions are still centralised Canberra. They are in the hands of a person who has never been under fire. This led to the appalling prosecution of our SAS soldiers who