The clearest indication of what the federal government thinks about Australia’s defence was highlighted in the recent budget.
The government announced that the defence budget over the next four years would be slashed by $5.5 billion, at the same time that the government is putting $10 billion into the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to subsidise alternative energy projects, and a further $5 billion into the Energy Security Fund.
If this were the limit of the cutbacks, it could b…
