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Why is the ADF ‘not fit’ to deter China?

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The Federal Government has just completed its Defence Strategic Review. It's an urgent call for Australia to shift its military stats in a way that we haven't seen in decades, in 80 years. How will we pay for the changes it's proposing? How can we save money? And how will our neighbours react to a more capable Australian military? Today, Chief Political Correspondent Karen Middleton on how military spending lost its way and the path towards making our forces fit for purpose.

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