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Australia can leverage SMEs to build national resilience

Australia needs a national strategy that explicitly prioritises the integration of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) into its defence industrial base to strengthen sovereign capability and infrastructure resilience. Despite high-level pledges to build a self-reliant …

You call that a defence industry?

Australia’s defence manufacturers are essentially a cottage industry, with the average supplier employing only 13 people and achieving net annual sales of about $2.2 million. These averages, drawn from the annual review of the industry …