by Marcus Hellyer | Feb 21, 2024 | Defence Budget, Strategy & Capability
The Government has released the broad brushstrokes of a plan for the structure of the Royal Australian Navy’s surface fleet and for the approach to naval shipbuilding to deliver that fleet. This plan is based on the independent review of the navy’s surface fleet that...
by Michael Shoebridge | Sep 19, 2023 | Defence Budget, Policy, Strategy & Capability
The Department of Defence has convinced Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles and the PM-chaired National Security Committee of Cabinet to proceed with buying a fourth Triton long range UAV from America’s Northrop Grumman corporation, likely adding some $350 million to...