Скачать или смотреть Erin Molan expresses ‘genuine disdain’ over national security going ‘backwards’

Sky News host Erin Molan has expressed anger at the government’s failure to ensure Australia’s safety while people like her late father, retired Major-General and senator Jim Molan, were “cruelly ignored”.

The Australian Defence Force is set to lower fitness and health standards to boost recruitment after it was revealed the ADF faced a shortage of more than 4,300 people.

Ms Molan said her father, who was the Chief of Operations for the United States and Coalition Forces in Iraq, was one of Australia’s “greatest resources”.

“Dad had a healthy ego, absolutely, but what drove him was a love for this country like no other and a fierce determination to do whatever he could to keep it safe,” Ms Molan said.

“If his pleas for a National Security Strategy had been taken seriously, then we'd be far better off than we are now, miles ahead even.

“This is not bitterness, by the way; I promise you, it’s not. This is genuine disdain that our country has gone backwards as we hit peak panic.”