Queensland MP Says Australia Needs ‘A Hundred’ Missile-Equipped Ships in Defence Strategy

A veteran Queensland politician says the government’s got it all wrong unless Australia plans to fight penguins.

Bob Katter of Katter’s Australian Party during a press conference in the Mural Hall at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia on June 22, 2021. Sam Mooy/Getty Images

A Queensland MP is calling on the government to rethink its defence strategy amid recent events, including the circumnavigation of Australia by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) warships earlier in the year.

Bob Katter, whose Kennedy electorate sits in Queensland’s north, made the comments off the back of discussions with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles.