Australia Sends Military Assets to Middle East – Uncle Asks If They Can Send Some Assets to His Community Instead

CANBERRA – Prime Minister Albanese announced Australia will deploy a Wedgetail surveillance aircraft and send air-to-air missiles to the UAE. A remote community uncle has asked if there are any spare assets for his neighbourhood. ✈️

“So we’ve got money for missiles but the clinic still doesn’t have a doctor three days a week?” asked Uncle Ray Johnson from a community in Far North Queensland. “Good to know where the priorities are.”

The deployment includes 85 Australian personnel to the Gulf region for four weeks. Uncle Ray said his community has been waiting four years for a new water treatment system. “85 people to the Middle East in a week. Can’t get one plumber to Bamaga in four years.”

The Greens warned Australia risks being dragged into another US-led war. Uncle Ray agreed. “We already got our own wars. War on poverty. War on closing the gap. War on getting Telstra to fix the phone tower.”

Albanese stressed the deployment was defensive only. “We are not taking offensive action against Iran” the PM said. Uncle Ray noted the government takes no offensive action against black mould in community housing either. “Very consistent.” 😤

The PM cited 115,000 Australians living in the Middle East as justification. Uncle Ray asked how many Australians are living without clean drinking water. “But yeah nah missiles first.”

At press time the Wedgetail was airborne and Uncle Ray’s community was still on a boil water alert from November.