by Michael Shoebridge | May 1, 2025 | Defence Budget, Featured, Policy
Australia is spending more and more taxpayers’ dollars equipping our Defence Force, but it is buying less and less. We’re in a spiralling affordability crisis leading to a shrinking Australian military and a bankrupt Defence organisation. The problem comes from the...
by Marcus Hellyer | Apr 29, 2025 | Defence Budget, Featured, Policy
Last week the Liberal Party released its defence policy (slightly) ahead of Saturday’s federal election. The initial announcement focused on the goal of growing the defence budget to 2.5% over the next five years and to 3.0% over the decade. Since then, the...
by Peter Jennings | Apr 28, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Featured, 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 Marcus Hellyer | Apr 25, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Featured, Strategy & Capability
The Coalition’s announcement that it will increase defence spending is a long overdue acknowledgement that business as usual in national security is not a valid option. It’s intent to hit 2.5% of GDP over the next five years and 3.0% over the next ten is a much needed...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Apr 10, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Defence Budget, Featured, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability
The Grumpy Heard Island Edition: a risky America, | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists visit Trump tariffs’ Ground Zero on Heard Island. While President Trump’s shifting global moves are creating uncertainty about working with America, the good news is that...
