Comment on Security without submarines: the military strategy Australia should pursue instead of AUKUS
Whirlybird@aussie.zone 2 days ago
The subs deal has always been insanely stupid. It’s like when we spent like $10bil on a few fighter jets a while back - if China came knocking looking for an invasion, having 6 subs and a few dozen fighter jets may as well be a few mosquitos buzzing around chinas ears. Completely pointless.
No one is coming to invade Australia. We’re too far away, too barren, and we already give away all of our resources for almost free to anyone who asks.
Our military strategy should be “yeah nah she’ll be right” because we have nothing to worry about.
nevetsg@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I had to check this claim for myself and as far as I can see your numbers are way off. Looking at the numbers supplied by the ABS I can see 2.485M arrivals over 5 years to 2024, or neally 10% of the 26M population. Not the 20% in your claim but feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
65% of these arrivals are Temporary visa holders, so they go home again…
13% were returning Australian Citizens.
6.3% were from NZ.
14% were Perminant Visa holders. 350K over 5 years is 1.34% of the Australian population.