Thousands of Australian Defence Force personnel will be deployed to more frequent natural disasters and COVID-style crises on home soil, in what a senior ADF official describes as a “paradigm shift” focused on the impacts of climate change.
Key points:
- ADF officers will increasingly be called upon to respond to natural disasters and domestic crises as part of a “paradigm shift” for Australia’s military
- The ADF has been warning for years it will be stretched by increasing disasters and unrest caused by climate change
- Former Defence officials say the Federal Government’s attitude to climate…
