Table of the week – recent defence budgets
Posted By Andrew Davies on April 17, 2013 @ 13:58
As Graeme Dobell’s account [1] of Defence Minister Stephen Smith’s speech suggests, there was scepticism in the audience about his claim that the defence budget over the past twelve years averaged out at a little over 1.7% of GDP.
The data is shown in the table, reproduced from Mark Thomson’s 2012–13 Cost of Defence report [2] (page 26).
The average from 2001–02 to this year is, as advertised, 1.763%.
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Sources: 2012-13 Budget Overview [4], 2012-13 Defence Portfolio Budget Statements [5] and earlier Defence Annual Reports [6].
Andrew Davies is senior analyst for defence capability at ASPI and executive editor of The Strategist.
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URLs in this post:
[1] Graeme Dobell’s account: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/vietnam-and-lessons-for-afghanistan-and-the-budget/
[2] 2012–13 Cost of Defence report: http://www.aspi.org.au/publications/publication_details.aspx?ContentID=339
[3] Image: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Table-DefenceSpending.jpg
[4] 2012-13 Budget Overview: http://www.budget.gov.au/2012-13/content/overview/html/overview_28.htm
[5] 2012-13 Defence Portfolio Budget Statements: http://www.defence.gov.au/budget/12-13/pbs/index.htm
[6] Defence Annual Reports: http://www.defence.gov.au/annualreports/index.htm
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