Launch of ASPI's annual publication Cost of Defence: ASPI Defence Budget Brief 2006-07

ASPI Events - Publication Launches 25 May, 2006

Dr Mark Thomson today released his highly regarded annual publication The Cost of Defence: ASPI Defence Budget Brief 2006-07 at the end of this month. This publication, now in its fifth year, gives interested readers greater access to the complex workings of the Defence Budget and is intended to promote informed debate on Defence budget issues while helping decision-makers better understand budgetary aspects of defence policy. The centrepiece of the defence budget was a renewed long-term commitment to defence spending. In total, an extra $10.7 billion has been provided across the first five years of the next decade. This specialist publication forms the basis of the Strategy report Your Defence Dollar which will be sent to members in August 2006.