The parliamentary budget officer says if the federal government wants to meet NATO's military spending target by 2032 as promised, it will have to almost double defence spending to $81.9 billion.
  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    They could start by upping wages. It takes a year or more of the most brutal training for can imagine just to get into some of the trades in the military, and they get paid peanuts for it. Some of that training can literally kill if you fuck up. Yet there are service members living in tents or out of their cars because they can’t afford rent.