Those who've pooh-hooed
Bushranger 71's repeated warnings about the overly expensive purchase and hourly operating costs of the ADF's current and future helicopter fleet might be interested in this comment on the currently hot running thread about the RAF's huge cuts in aircrew and aircrew trainees.
More fundamentally though, the constant whining about accountants and bean-counters shows why we in the Services are babes in the wood in the modern world. It IS all about the money AND IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN! It is specifically because our 4-stars have failed over the last 10 years to grasp the nettle of the unaffordability of our plans that we have ended up in this crisis.
Don't for one moment think it can't, or won't happen here. And is there anyone who thinks our 4 stars are any different to their Brit equivalents?