immigration, page-34

"so - you are trying to tell me that army bases in major cities are defended by people with 2 weeks training, unarmed"

Yep. Well, when I was coming & going from bases a couple of years ago. They did put un-armed diggers at the entrance for a while when there was the enhanced level of threat after 9/11. But normally its just your plain old renta security guards.

"so soft that idiots from the western suburbs of melbourne could just breeze in there and kill hundreds of armed, trained soldiers."

I doubt they would have gotten anywhere near killing 'hundreds'. But like I said, diggers on base dont walk around with live ammo, unless they are at the firing range.

I assume the base has some sort of standard operating procedure to respond to these types of attacks but I doubt it would prevent at least a handful of people getting killed.