What if we had no armed forces, page-35

Here is the World Bank stats on global Military spends:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS

Please note the following countries have significantly lower military spends as a %age of GDP:

Austraiia.....................2%

-NZ..............................1.1%

Canada........................1.2%

Germany.....................1.2%

Italy.............................1.5%

Indonesia....................0.8%

Netherlands................1.2%

Phillipines...................1.4%

Sweeden......................1%

If we reduced our military spend (currently $35 billion AUD) by a half% of GDP we would save $8.75 billion p/a and still
have a military spend of 1.5% of GDP.

$8.75 billion a year would certainly improve our health, education and aged pensions.
If we take a page out of Canada's book and spend 1.2% of our GDP on military we could save $14 billion a year.