by Peter Jennings | Apr 28, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
At last we have a measurable and important policy difference between Labor and the Coalition with Peter Dutton’s plan to lift defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP across five years and to 3 per cent by 2035. Labor’s plan is to lift defence spending slowly to 2.4...
by Michael Shoebridge | Apr 23, 2025 | China, Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
It’s been an extraordinary gap in the debate around our federal election that no one has got to grips with the need to make Australia more secure fast. We’ve watched Chinese warships sail around our country firing their weapons. And we’re seeing Russia building a...
by Peter Jennings | Apr 2, 2025 | AUKUS, China
In March the Chinese “research ship” Tan Suo Yi Hao worked with New Zealand scientists to send a miniature submarine 6km down to the bottom of the Pusegur Trench, collecting samples from the seabed. “I really hope they come back and look at the trenches again. There’s...
by Peter Jennings and Marcus Hellyer | Apr 1, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Indo Pacific, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
Episode 36: A Grumpy Strategist meets a Wise Owl: | RSS.com Grumpy Strategist Marcus Hellyer talks with co-founder Peter Jennings in SAA’s secure bunker deep in the Brindabella ranges. They discuss the puzzle of the Canberra consensus that Australia is in a much...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Mar 22, 2025 | Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Episode 35: Australian ‘wombat resistance’ to Trum | RSS.com Marcus and Michael explore the Government’s confused position on disaster relief and the military. They assess the nuances in wombat-based pushback on US policies & set out the merits...
