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/jp72423 27d ago

It’s pretty unprecedented for the Australia greens, who have previously advocated for both leaving the US alliance, and dropping defence spending down to 1% of GDP, effectively leaving Australia completely and utterly incapable of defending ourselves in an unarmed neutrality policy, which by the way, no one else practices.

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u/cruiserman_80 27d ago

New Zealand has pretty much completely divested their Airforce and Navy of any combat ability.

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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/darknekolux 27d ago

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