As for using ADF personnel - they're already on the public payroll, got nothing better to do, have medics, specialised health teams, etc and are certainly more disciplined then the untrained casuals rounded up at short notice by security companies.
That contracting decision was stupid and reckless. Did the government imagine these companies had the suitably trained resources at hand? Pull the other one. It's not long ago various governments were investigating the dodgy security industry.
Maybe Dan can dig us out of the poo we are in, and more power to him, but it's undeniably his government's failure of judgement that got us in this mess, not the forseeable incapacity of the security industry to deliver what was asked of it.
I mean, who discussed or even examined the capacity of the contracting parties to deliver before the contracts were let...ah forget it, there'll be plenty of scape-goats and the usual joint unaccountability at the end.
