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The dangerous new Defence Industrial Development Strategy – jarringly out of step with our world

The dangerous new Defence Industrial Development Strategy – jarringly out of step with our world

by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Mar 8, 2024 | Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability

The dangerous new Defence Industrial Development Strategy – jarringly out of step with our world | RSS.com Grumpy Strategists Marcus Hellyer & Michael Shoebridge have waded through the Australian Government’s new Defence Industrial Development...
Questions on Defence’s mid-year budget update

Questions on Defence’s mid-year budget update

by Marcus Hellyer | Feb 12, 2024 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability

The Defence 2023-24 Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements (PAES) were published on Thursday 8 February. The PAES outlines changes to the Defence budget since the Portfolio Budget Statements were released in May 2023. In essences, it is the most current information...
Megaprojects: Taking Flyvberg’s ‘outside view’ on Australia’s nuclear submarine program

Megaprojects: Taking Flyvberg’s ‘outside view’ on Australia’s nuclear submarine program

by Marcus Hellyer | Feb 9, 2024 | AUKUS, Strategy & Capability

Will Australia’s AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine (SSN) program deliver as promised? The unavoidable answer is no. That’s because megaprojects virtually never deliver. That’s the finding of the person who has probably studied more megaprojects than anybody else:...
The dangerous new Defence Industrial Development Strategy – jarringly out of step with our world

2024 with a bang: Escalating war with de-escalating words, May Budget expectations & broken disposals

by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Feb 2, 2024 | Defence Budget, Podcasts, Strategy & Capability

2024 with a bang: Escalating war with de-escalating words, May budget expectations & broken disposals | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists look at the escalating conflict in the Middle East, the expectations and pressures the Albanese Government’s reviews and...
The dangerous new Defence Industrial Development Strategy – jarringly out of step with our world

2024: elections in a fragmenting world; Future Fund forgets Australian industry – & export controls, again

by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Dec 9, 2023 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Europe, Indo Pacific, Podcasts, Ukraine

Episode 9 – 2024: global elections bring a fragmenting world, investing everywhere but into Australian industry, and those pesky proposed export controls | RSS.com Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge look at the implications of elections from Taiwan, to India,...
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