ADF basically wasted a trillion dollars partying into US development programs we couldn't afford, can't sustain, don't control.
We're a middle order power, our natural allies are Japan, India, Korea. The quad. The US is not an ally of Australia, they're a hegemonic power, everything they do is designed to cuck us.
Planes they can remotely disable, batlespace command system they can disable remotely, missiles they can disable remotely. Not an ally.
India, Korea and Japan weren't so fucking stupid, they didn't see the US as an ally, they demanded goods upfront and made large orders through private multinationals not the US government.
As it stands, today, Australia has no working subs at all, two useless helicopter carriers, insufficient coastal defence, were OK for arty but lack the number of tanks we need to repel a coastal invasion.
These are all things we could just buy off the shelf tomorrow. Training is ADFs job, the ADaf should not be buying training programs. Every are outsourcing their core role of building an army.
We didn't need 20 coastguard boats, and didn't need to give them away to other counties. We don't need armoured cars, we need troop carriers, and we've given them away to Ukraine.
As a percentage of expedition ADF probably only retains 25 cents in the dollar.