‘We must invest’: New Zealand seeks to shed its ‘pretty slack’ defence image
For decades, both New Zealand and Australia have been “pretty slack” on military spending, Wellington’s defence minister recently conceded in a striking admission that analysts say was aimed as much at Washington as at a sceptical public at home.
Judith Collins told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on August 14 that she sympathised with the United States’ demands for its allies to share more of the defence burden, adding in an interview in Wellington that American taxpayers had carried...
