Fraser Anning (Queensland, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

  (i) on 11 July 2018, United States President, Mr Donald Trump, told NATO leaders they should increase their defence spending to 4 per cent of their country's economic output,

  (ii) the United States spent approximately 3 per cent of its GDP on defence last year,

  (iii) Australia spent approximately 2 per cent of its GDP on defence last year,

  (iv) we live in a volatile geo-political environment, and Australia ought to have strong defence capabilities to defend the air-sea gap approach to our borders, and

  (v) historically, during the 1950s and 1960s, Australia spent on average 3 per cent of its GDP on defence; and

(b) calls on the Federal Government to increase its defence spending to a target of 4 per cent GDP to protect all Australians.