Liberal hopeful goes wildly off-message with shocking outburst about women - as he's slammed for his bizarre comments

A Liberal campaigner praised by Peter Dutton has been slammed aft helium called for each women to beryllium removed from frontline roles successful the Australian Defence Force.

Benjamin Britton made the comments during an interrogation connected a right-wing podcast successful August - 2 months before his December preselection for the NSW seat of Whitlam successful the Illawarra portion southbound of Sydney.

Speaking to podcaster Joel Jammal, Mr Britton, who antecedently served successful the Australian Army, said the ADF had go burdened with diverseness and equity quotas and different 'bureaucratic nonsense'. 

'If we're to hole our defence force, unluckily they're going to request to region females from combat corps,' Mr Britton said.

'That's not an onslaught connected females, I served with immoderate of the top females successful the defence force.

'Tremendous people, and I'm precise very gladsome to person met them and known them due to the fact that they made my beingness amended knowing them.'

But helium said young women were being 'pushed' into infantry and front-line combat roles successful the ADF successful the involvement of 'woke Marxist ideologies'. 

'The aesculapian discharge complaint for females is disconnected the planet. Seventy to eighty per cent are getting medically discharged. 

'Their hips are being destroyed due to the fact that they can't header with the carrying of the dense loads and the dense impacts required from doing combat-related jobs.'

Young women were being 'put connected the altar and sacrificed' for the involvement of ideology, helium said. 

Professor Peter Dean, the Director of Foreign Policy and Defence astatine the University of Sydney's United States Studies Centre, has condemned the comments.

'These are utmost views and they are surely not the argumentation of the Coalition oregon the Government,' Prof Dean told Daily Mail Australia. 

'To instrumentality specified an attack would undermine morale and recruitment abilities of the ADF and region 1 of its strengths, which is its diverseness and its request to bespeak the full of Australian society.

'The Liberal enactment request to explicate wherefore they pre-selected a campaigner with specified views and if they hold with them.' 

Strategic defence adept Michael Shoebridge said the ADF was successful a authorities of 'workforce collapse' arsenic it hovered astir 58,000 of a needed 64,000 work personnel.

'Cutting retired 50 per cent of the colonisation from the excavation of recruits for combat roles volition lone marque our recruitment situation worse,' Mr Shoebridge said.

'Military standards for combat roles tin beryllium and are being met by women soldiers. 

'Rather than making existent problems worse, our politicians request to promote young Australians to articulation the Defence Force.'

Women presently marque up astir 20 per cent of radical serving successful the ADF. 

Mr Britton's interrogation emerged aft Coalition person Peter Dutton heaped praise connected him successful a societal media station earlier this year. 

The January 22 station showed Mr Dutton visiting Moss Vale, which falls nether the Whitlam seat. 

'Ben's moving hard successful his assemblage and lasting up for section families and tiny businesses, drafting connected his dedication arsenic a seasoned and his enactment successful the defence industry,' the station said. 

'This country has been ignored by a section Labor subordinate who is dormant astatine the wheel, but with our affirmative plans and an outstanding campaigner similar Ben, we'll get this portion and our state backmost connected track.

'This country has been ignored by a section Labor subordinate who is dormant astatine the wheel, but with our affirmative plans and an outstanding campaigner similar Ben, we'll get this portion and our state Back connected Track.' 

Mr Britton served successful the Australian Army's 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment. He unsuccessfully ran for the United Australia Party successful the 2022. 

Mr Britton volition contention Whitlam against Labor's Carol Berry successful May's national election. Katrina Hodgkinson withdrew arsenic the Nationals campaigner connected Thursday.

Daily Mail Australia has contacted Mr Britton and Mr Dutton for comment.