Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says there are many countries that can't afford to invest adequately into their defense personnel and assets, however Australia "is at the other extreme".
"We have put $270 billion into defence capability over the next 10 years," Mr Dutton said during Question Time on Wednesday.
"We've done that because we've been able to manage the budget well.
"We've been able to respond to COVID in a way that many other countries around the world have not been able to respond."
"And it's absolutely important that we do so".
"We need to make sure that we have the adequate investment into our defence personnel and the equipment that they use because we do face very difficult times," he said.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has sensationally revealed that he was tipped off about the alleged rape at Parliament House on February 11 by the AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw - 24 hours before news.com.au lodged questions on the incident. Mr Dutton, who is himself a former drug squad cop, told Parliament that he had also been given further briefings last week and again this week on how the case was progressing. The Prime Minister has consistently maintained that his office didn t know about the allegation until news.com.au contacted his media team for comment at 2:30pm on Friday, February 12.
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