Shadow Veterans Affairs Minister Barnaby Joyce has actually knocked Defence Minister Richard Marles as “incompetence personified” for his fight with his department as “wars do not wait on you”.
Marles states his department still has a “method to go” before it attains quality.
Stress in between Mr Marles and the Department of Defence were exposed the other day throughout Question Time after the Opposition required him to raise his video game.
“This is simply incompetence,” Mr Joyce informed Sky News Australia.
“There’s 2 sorts of huge concerns they fight with: one is expense of living; the other one is safeguarding the country– they have a hard time a bit in those 2 locations.
“Yet we see this incompetence personified when you have the Defence Minister and our leading brass at loggerheads, a lot so that it’s made its escape into the general public.
“Wars do not wait on you, and they’ve got to get their act together due to the fact that we are residing in such an altered world– a militaristic totalitarian China … North Korea is a rogue state, Russia has actually gotten into Ukraine.
“What in the world is taking place back here? They’ve got to get up, pull their socks up and return to work.”