HMAS Canberra docked in Hobart. Image from Flickr, courtesy of Gavin Anderson.
The end of 2 per cent: Australia gets serious about its defence budget
26 February 2016
Compared to Tony Abbott, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his defence minister, Marise Payne, see themselves as having a different emphasis in the way they view security challenges, how Australia should fund its defence, and different philosophies for how to protect the nation’s interests in our region.
Nowhere is this clearer than in Australia’s new defence white paper. It seeks a certain product differentiation to Abbott’s often idiosyncratic, and arguably crude, strategic posturing.
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