'Vulnerable to collapse': Why the NZSAS and Defence Force are in crisis
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Defence Minister Judith Collins will be meeting with her Australian counterpart today as both sides of the Tasman look to move towards ‘interoperability’ and working as one.
This meeting comes after more details were revealed about the poor state of our military by the Herald this week.
The NZSAS and the wider Defence Force are losing people in droves, and officials are doing their best to throw cash at the situation to prevent our security apparatus from grinding to a halt.
So, what exactly is going wrong on our military frontlines, and is Judith Collins the Minister to fix the problem?
NZ Herald investigative reporter David Fisher has been looking into this crisis for months, and joins us The Front Page today to discuss just how dire the situation is.
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