'The buck stops with him': Marles known as Australia’s 'worst Defence Minister of all

The buck stops with Defence Minister Richard Marles as he holds responsibility for the state of the ADF’s recruitment and retainment “mess,” says LNP Defence and National Security Policy’s Lincoln Parker. “He has presided over this mess, and he continues to do that,” he told Sky News Australia host Erin Molan. “He is certainly known as probably Australia’s worst defence minister of all time. “Right now, he is at war – he has lost control of the Department of Defence; he is at war with his own department. “You have to lead from the front, and that is not what the Prime Minister is doing; it is not what the Minister for Defence is doing.”