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...