Defence industry minister Pat Conroy released the government’s Defence Industrial...
Strategy & Capability
Grumpy Strategists – The Makers’ Series Episode 1
Grumpy Strategists - The Makers' Series Episode 1 | RSS.com This new Grumpy Strategists series...
A new Navy plan – money, frigates & floating missile trucks but no lessons from the Black or Red Seas
A new plan for Australia's Navy - money, frigates & floating missile trucks, but no lessons from...
Doubling down: The Navy’s new surface fleet plan by the numbers
The Government has released the broad brushstrokes of a plan for the structure of the Royal...
New plan to save the Navy, old approach to implementation
It has taken two reviews and 19 months for Defence Minister Richard Marles to understand the Royal...
Reversing the slow-motion collapse of our Navy
The Government’s challenge is to get new, properly armed warships into the Royal Australian Navy...
Richard Marles: stop digging, start leading
Richard Marles and Pat Conroy, our Defence and Defence Industry ministers, are living the lonely...
Poor performance won’t improve while it is kept hidden
The Government has just tabled its ‘Portfolio Additional Estimates Statement’ in the Parliament to...
Questions on Defence’s mid-year budget update
The Defence 2023-24 Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements (PAES) were published on Thursday 8...
Megaprojects: Taking Flyvberg’s ‘outside view’ on Australia’s nuclear submarine program
Will Australia’s AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine (SSN) program deliver as promised? The...
Lavishly funded but broke: Australia’s Defence Department needs a zero-based budget
The Australian Defence Department is broke. That must sound outrageous to almost every other...
2024 with a bang: Escalating war with de-escalating words, May Budget expectations & broken disposals
2024 with a bang: Escalating war with de-escalating words, May budget expectations & broken...
Will Trump sink AUKUS if he wins?
A second Trump presidency is not a certainty, but a forward-thinking Australian government would...
Labor’s evasive action on grounded choppers won’t fly
There is something deeply suspect about the government’s decision to disassemble and bury 45...
Ukraine and helicopters: Mr Albanese needs to dig Defence and Pat Conroy out of a hole of their own making
“Australia stands with Ukraine. We pay tribute to the unwavering resilience and courage displayed...