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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: $12 billion on defence? I'm good with that
Description: It would be great if we didn’t have to spend $12 billion on our defence force. But we do, and I’m good with it.   To be honest though, while we’d known the Government had some sort of plan to increase defence spending, I was still blown away a bit by the scale of it when the announcement came through.   So, $12 billion over the next four years. There’ll be new helicopters, more missiles, autonomous vessels, the air force’s clapped-out 757s will be replaced. And that’s just the start, because it’s all part of a bigg...