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Australia must become ‘strong’ to deter war
NSW Senator Jim Molan says Australia’s level of complacency with defence is “very high” and the country must become “strong” to deter war.
“Defence and national security is something the government has got to engender within the people,” he told Sky News host Erin Molan.
Mr Molan said it “takes a nation to defend a nation” and has suggested introducing a defence levy.
“Hard for a Liberal to say because one of our creeds is a being a low taxing government – except in times of national emergency, which I think we’re in now,” he added.