by Peter Jennings | Jun 16, 2023 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
Australia’s defence industry leaders typically operate below the radar when it comes to critiquing defence policy. That’s hardly surprising. The industry has one customer – the government – and business doesn’t complain about the paymaster. This has created a...
by Marcus Hellyer | May 22, 2023 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
Australia needs to mobilise in order to address the strategic challenges it is facing. The Defence Strategic Review (DSR) proposes ways to do that. However, the 2023-24 Defence Portfolio Budget Statements (PBS) does not yet incorporate the recommendations of the DSR....
by Marcus Hellyer | May 10, 2023 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
The bottom line up front: The Albanese government’s May Defence budget is disconnected from its own Defence Strategic Review. Defence funding and the plan for spending is business as usual when instead we need urgent action. Simply committing to the now seven-year-old...
by Marcus Hellyer | May 4, 2023 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
Like all big policy statements, the public version of the Defence Strategic Review (DSR), released on 24 April this year, is a mix of the good, the bad and ugly. Of course, depending on your point of view, a piece of information (or its absence) could fall into any...
