Judith Collins: Defence Minister on the Government's plan to spend $12 billion on defence over the next 4 years
Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive · Newstalk ZB
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The Government's keeping its cards close to its chest on how it'll fund a mammoth defence splurge.
It's injecting $12 billion over the next four years into building up our Defence Force workforce and equipment.
It's signalling it'll go into system upgrades, replacing helicopters - and enhancing maritime strike capability.
Defence Minister Judith Collins says the investment includes $9 billion on top of what we already spend on defence.
"It is a lot of money, but I also know this - there is no economic security without national security."
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