‘Weak and terribly opaque’: Birmingham slams Albanese govt’s defence announcement

Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham has criticised the Albanese government’s latest defence announcement as “weak and terribly opaque”. “It’s a weak and terribly opaque announcement,” Mr Birmingham told Sky News Australia. “This is an investment strategy that leaves far more questions about where the cuts to defence are lying than it does answers about where the actual investments are going to occur. “This is a government that has now outlined some $80 billion worth of cuts or delays to different defence investments and programs since it came to office.” Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie also labelled last week’s defence announcement by the Albanese government as "weak".