by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | May 28, 2026 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Featured, Policy
Strategic Analysis Australia is publishing a baker’s dozen sets of questions on the Defence portfolio that we’d like to know the answers to. Hopefully senators have similar interests and will seek some answers from traditionally reluctant Defence officials. ...
by Marcus Hellyer | May 20, 2026 | Defence Budget, Featured, Policy
This post has an embedded version of Marcus Hellyer’s Defence budget Powerpoint slides. The slides tell a disturbing story about Australian military priorities, and the consequences of slowly building a small fleet of expensive warships and nuclear-powered...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | May 18, 2026 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Featured, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
Oz Budgets: the Unhappy meet the Disappointed. Big | RSS.com Michael and Marcus argue furiously over the merits and messages in the Albanese Govt budget versus Opposition leader Angus Taylor’s response. Only one of them is right….Then Marcus burrows deep...
by Marcus Hellyer | May 13, 2026 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Featured, Policy
The 2026-27 Defence Portfolio Budget Statements (PBS) are a very strange document. In fact, we’ve never seen anything quite like it. There are a couple of reasons for that. The first is the paradox that in an age of increasing defence budgets, funding actually goes...
by Marcus Hellyer | May 6, 2026 | Defence Budget, Featured, Policy, Strategy & Capability
The Albanese Government has released its second National Defence Strategy (NDS) along with a supporting Defence Integrated Investment Program (IIP). This follows the 2024 version. That was the first in a new approach to defence strategic policy planning which was...
