For nearly a decade, Australia’s defence community has warned that the country lacks the industrial depth required for deterrence, sustainment and prolonged operations. The 2016 Defence White Paper raised the concern. The 2020 Force Structure …
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ASPI has published The cost of Defence every year since 2002. The series has, year after year, assessed what governments said they would do against what the books showed. It’s the type of scrutiny that …
Australia’s 2026–27 budget commits the federal government to daily spending around A$181.9 million on defence. That headline sits on the cover of our 2026 The cost of Defence report, released today. The number is sobering. …
Australia’s Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance (GWEO) program is a spending priority in the 2026 National Defence Strategy (NDS) and the accompanying spending plan, the Integrated Investment Program (IIP). Both offer signs of progress and …
So you thought that watching defence spending was complicated. Well, Australia’s new National Defence Strategy displays three different ways of counting it. There’s the Defence portfolio’s appropriation from government; the appropriation from government plus Defence’s …