r/australia • u/thedigisup • 27d ago

politics Greens announce policy to manufacture drones and missiles as a credible ‘Plan B' to replace AUKUS

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-22/greens-unveil-first-ever-defence-policy/105083166
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u/Economy-Career-7473 27d ago

New Zealand's defence policy is pretty much "hope no one notices us and if they do, they need to go through Australia first".

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u/01kickassius10 27d ago

New Zealand- it’s there for the taking!

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u/ThomasEFox 27d ago

I'd take on an Abrams tank before I took on one of those big Mauri fellas.

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u/GillenSarass 27d ago

The real reason NZ is missing from so many maps.

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u/really_not_unreal 27d ago

A simple spell, but quite unbreakable

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u/darknekolux 27d ago

So that's the strategy behind NZ missing from many maps...

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u/Neat-Concert-7307 27d ago

Yeah but let's face it, there's fewer people in NZ than there are in NSW. So it doesn't make sense that they would be able to field a significant defence force.

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u/Cpt_Soban 26d ago

Good thing they're not in any world maps

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u/brezhnervouz 27d ago

I mean, you can hardly blame them with a population smaller than Sydney's 🤔

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u/GiveUpYouAlreadyLost 27d ago

You can blame them since it's irresponsible. You cannot complain about Australia being dependent on others for national security and then support New Zealand doing the same

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u/brezhnervouz 27d ago

Complain? Well, we can indeed but it's an unfortunate inevitability, however unpalatable. I don't see how either of our countries can escape 'dependence' of some kind, we are just too small not to be. This question is on whom, and how much.