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, &...
by Marcus Hellyer | Feb 21, 2025 | Defence Budget, Policy
One of the challenges facing those who attempt to scrutinise the performance of the Australian Department of Defence is the general lack of transparency. Since Defence isn’t required to release many kinds of information, it simply doesn’t. This is compounded by the...
by Graeme Dunk | Feb 20, 2025 | Policy, Strategy & Capability
In the recent years, Australian Governments have made repeated announcements about building/rebuilding a viable, sustainable and innovative domestic industry for defence. The most recent example is that of Defence Minister Marles promising $262 million to get...
by Rob Bourke | Feb 14, 2025 | Defence Budget, Policy, Strategy & Capability
This month marks the first anniversary of the release of the government’s 2024 Defence Industry Development Strategy. At that time, the Strategy attracted little attention besides some pretty critical reviews. Not much has changed since—despite the document dealing...
by Marcus Hellyer | Feb 4, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
Last year I warned about the proliferation of unsubstantiated claims about the economic benefits to Australia of AUKUS and the domestic construction of nuclear submarines. Such claims are nonsense. All economists will tell you that defence spending simply transfers...
