'Terrible indictment': Australia believed to be without counter-drone-capable warship

Bondi Partners Senior Advisor Peter McGauran says Australia “should be supporting allies” as he slammed the Albanese government’s “terrible” decision to not send a warship requested by the US for assistance against Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. "Surely we can supply a warship in the Northern Hemisphere as well as maintain our commitments in the Indo-Pacific,” Mr McGauran told Sky News Australia. “I think the bigger problem here is the government doesn’t have a warship with sufficient capability to be put in harm’s way. “The Houthis from Yemen, which is an Iranian state, are inveterate users of drones – they have destroyed targets in Saudi Arabia for instance. “I don’t believe we have a warship that has a counter-drone capacity which is a terrible indictment on our naval capacity.”