Minister to 'trim' bloated Defence

By Fleta Page
Updated April 19 2018 - 7:52am, first published October 8 2013 - 3:00am

The Australia Defence Association is backing new Defence Minister David Johnston over his candid comments that the department's bureaucracy is bloated and its budget a ''mess''.

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