The electioneering in Australia over the security agreement between China and Solomon Islands has obscured important questions about why the deal came about and its future implications. At the core of China’s grey-zone tactics is …
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Confusion reigns in discussions about the cost of the Department of Defence’s equipment projects. Whether we’re talking about media articles, parliamentary committee hearings, letters to the editor, duelling internet commentators or any other forms of …
The effort to grow the Australian Defence Force to 101,000 by 2040 has put recruitment under the spotlight and it’s important that Defence’s ambitions on Indigenous participation are a crucial part of this drive. For …
The Australian government’s 2020 defence strategic update was released with a catchy tagline: ‘Shape. Deter. Respond.’ The second two of these strategic objectives are incontrovertibly part of the traditional role of the military: to deter …
Last September, the Australian government announced a review of defence innovation, science and technology following six years of operation of the Defence Innovation Hub. This news was quickly trumped when a mere three days later …