“A joke”: Funding for more than 5000 ADF personnel wiped

The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan has slammed the government’s handling of national security, calling it a “joke” and warning that the country’s defence force is in a state of disarray. Mr Sheridan’s remarks come as Labor has wiped the funding for 5,000 Australian Defence Force personnel as a way to offset years of failure to meet recruitment targets. He argued that the government’s claims of improving the recruitment process are not enough and that the country’s defence force is still severely undermanned.