Sentences with phrase «highest defence budget»
«We have the fourth highest defence budget of any country in the world.
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New policy decisions announced in the Budget included personal income tax cuts, increased spending on defence and domestic security, and reform of higher education and Medicare.
Was it to counteract declining defence budgets (1991 the budgets were much higher than 2003)?
They need to know that the defence budget and the defence estate will be properly managed, that weapons and equipment will be delivered on time and on budget rather than late and with massive cost over-runs, and that they and their families will not have to pay the cost of incompetence higher up the line.
Last year it spent 3.6 % of its GDP on defence, the highest ratio of any NATO member (and the highest total military budget in the world by a hefty margin).
«When we look at the growth in the science and technology budgets of major developed countries which include national defence research, we find that Japan appears to show a relatively high growth,» says the White Paper.
The Australian Future fund is tasked with delivering high risk - adjusted returns on public funds, such as the Australian Government's budget surpluses, in order to cover the Government's unfunded superannuation liability arising from entitlements to public servants and defence personnel.