by Peter Jennings | Feb 18, 2024 | Defence Budget, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Richard Marles and Pat Conroy, our Defence and Defence Industry ministers, are living the lonely nightmare of seeing their careers sputter from a succession of policy and implementation failures. They are hardly alone. Marles is the 10th defence minister since the...
by Lesley Seebeck | Feb 13, 2024 | Policy
Recent days have covered the apparent—and to insiders, longstanding—differences between the defence minister and his department. First reported in the Australian Financial Review last week, the fractures include a mutual disregard, frustrations over slowness on...
by Michael Shoebridge | Jun 19, 2023 | Strategy & Capability
How trusting of Deputy Prime Minister Marles to receive a scathing report about how broken the Defence bureaucracy is and to then turn to that same bureaucracy to heal itself. And how important for Australia’s security that he reconsiders and changes course. That’s...
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...
