Greg Sheridan
WOMEN in the front line, plaudits from the Sex Discrimination Commissioner (that noted arbiter of military effectiveness), swingeing budget cuts to defence, but promises on the never-never that it will all be massively funded one day, long beyond the forward estimates: what can we make of the Gillard government's defence policy?
Is it that the spirit of the Whitlam government - its social priorities and its profound lack of seriousness in defence and national security - inhabits the government's soul?
The Gillard government is failing in national security and defence. This is a singular contrast to the Rudd government.
Since Harold Holt in the mid-1960s, Australia has had two prime ministers who were really serious about national defence: John Howard and Kevin Rudd.
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