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    Vic - Labour starved the Armed Forces of cash and over committed them. They received the worse financial settlements consistently of any department over the last 13 years. A lot of the orders for new equipment were never backed up by the funds needed to buy them.

    Even if the Defence budget was not being cut they would still have to be cutting a lot of equipment purchases and/or reducing their size.

    I have said many times the one and only area of public spending that should not be cut is Defence. What is more it is the department that should be prioritised for higher spending as soon as the cash is available. Our forces are over-stretched, under manned, under funded and desperately needed.

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