The federal government is now considering the results of a six-month review of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to determine whether it is fit for purpose to deal with a militarily aggressive Chinese Communist Party.
The report was ordered last August by the newly elected Labor government and came just two years after the 2020 Defence Strategic Update was publicised—this document already called for a major overhaul of how the ADF should be structured and what weapons to acquire.
On Feb. 14, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Defence Minister Richard Marles received the report from former ADF Chief Angus Houston and ex-Labor Defence Minister Stephen Smith….