Fact check: Did defence spending under Labor drop to its lowest level since 1938?
The claim "Under Labor, defence spending as a share of GDP dropped to its lowest level since 1938," Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said at a doorstop interview on February 24, ahead of the release of the Government's Defence White Paper. It is the highest figure since 1994-95, when Paul Keating was prime minister and defence spending as a share of GDP was 1.96 per cent. Fact check: Former Palmer United Party Senator Jacqui Lambie incorrect on defence spending Jacqui Lambie says Australia's defence spending as a ratio of GDP is the lowest it's been since pre-World War II. Senator Lambie claimed in 2014 that defence spending under the current Coalition Government had dropped to its lowest level as a share of GDP since before World War II. In April 2016 the Department of Defence provided Fact Check with a new list of defence spending in relation to GDP since 2001-02, with GDP estimates calculated by the ABS.
Fact check: Palmer United Party Senator Jacqui Lambie incorrect on defence spending
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