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Defence’s 184-Page Blueprint: Can Australia Actually Build the Military Industrial Base It Says It Needs?
By Michael Keating | Inside Canberra Australia has released what is arguably its most detailed defence industry blueprint ever produced. Spread across 184 pages—a 106-page Defence Industry Development Strategy, a 78-page technical annex, and supporting fact sheets—the documents represent a fundamental rethink of how Australia intends to design, build, maintain and export military capability over the coming decade.…
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Defence Overhaul: Conroy Unveils Sweeping Procurement Reforms as Government Targets Delays, Cost Blowouts and Sovereign Capability
By Michael Keating | Inside Canberra Australia’s defence procurement system is set for its biggest structural overhaul in half a century, with Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy using a National Press Club address to announce a series of reforms aimed at reducing cost blowouts, accelerating project delivery and strengthening Australia’s sovereign defence industrial base. While…
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Australia Urged to Rethink Africa Strategy as Expert Calls for Deeper Trade, Education and Innovation Links
CANBERRA, July 1 — Australia is failing to capitalise on one of the world’s fastest-growing economic regions, with leading African-Australian academic Professor Mimi Claudine Watts urging Parliament to pursue a far more ambitious engagement strategy built on education, science, business and diaspora leadership. Appearing before the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade’s…