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Australia’s 2025-26 Defence Budget: $59 billion, but the Government’s still missing its moment

Australia’s 2025-26 Defence Budget: $59 billion, but the Government’s still missing its moment

by Marcus Hellyer | Mar 26, 2025 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability

Cometh the moment, cometh the man goes the old saying. And the moment has certainly come. We have seen an unbroken string of destabilising and threatening international events over the past decade. Their impact on Australia’s security has been consistently...
If Ukraine, Israel & Taiwan don’t matter, who’s got our back?

If Ukraine, Israel & Taiwan don’t matter, who’s got our back?

by Peter Jennings | Mar 25, 2025 | China, Indo Pacific, Strategy & Capability

The seven-front war against Israel is heating up once again and the intensity of fighting in Ukraine shows we are a long way away from a sustainable peace. China meanwhile, in the words of Admiral Samuel J. Paparo, head of US Indo-Pacific Command, is not only...
Episode 35: Australian ‘wombat resistance’ to Trump begins, the masterplan for zero tariffs and debates swirl on “Plan B’ for security

Episode 35: Australian ‘wombat resistance’ to Trump begins, the masterplan for zero tariffs and debates swirl on “Plan B’ for security

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...
The 2025 Defence budget update: still sleeping walking to disaster

The 2025 Defence budget update: still sleeping walking to disaster

by Marcus Hellyer | Mar 5, 2025 | Defence Budget, Policy, Strategy & Capability, Uncategorized

The Government recently released the 2024-25 Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements (PAES) which are meant to report on how departments are going at delivering on the policy goals and spending plans set out in the Portfolio Budget Statements (PBS). This year’s...
Episode 35: Australian ‘wombat resistance’ to Trump begins, the masterplan for zero tariffs and debates swirl on “Plan B’ for security

Grumpies live at the Australian Defence Magazine 2025 Congress – Episode 33

by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Feb 27, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Indo Pacific, Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability

Episode 33 – Grumpy Strategists live at the Austra | RSS.com Recorded at the 2025 Australian Defence Magazine Congress, the Grumpies look at the world & ask so what? Oz is facing a national crisis due to events in the US, with Russia & Europe, &...
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