It’s wrong to draw an equivalence between the Australian Defence Force’s activities in the South China Sea and Chinese Communist Party’s unnotified live-fire exercise in the Tasman Sea and subsequent circumnavigation of our continent. Yet the Prime Minister did draw that false equivalence – but watch his government deny it at Senate Estimates! Our men and women in uniform defend our nation. And they deserve a Prime Minister who will defend their professionalism and reputation in turn. Real leade