According to Marc Corcoran on the ABC News website:

The Australian Defence Force is quietly resurrecting plans to buy seven huge intelligence and surveillance drones that could cost up to $3billion. The unmanned aerial vehicles will be used for maritime surveillance and intercepting asylum seeker boats.

This is the same Labor government which has forced 90,000 single parents (90% of them women) off the single parenting payment and on to Newstart, cutting their payments by between $60 and $110 a week and ‘saving’ $207 m a year.

This is the same Labor government which has just announced $2.8bn in cuts to universities, staff and students and which over the previous 2 years has cut a further $2bn from higher education.

This is the same Labor government which will not tax the rich and big business.

As the Simon Sheik poster says, this is the same Labor government which spends $1bn on offshore asylum seeker processing on Manus Island and Nauru; $4bn on mining subsidies and $13bn on coal subsidies.

Funding the defence killing machine; attacking workers and the poor – these are Labor’s real values; these are Labor’s priorities.

Labor Values: $3 BN For Drones But Even Greater Poverty For Single Parents & Big Cuts For Universities