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Pay Your Money & Take Your Pick: Defence Spending Choices for Australia
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Monday, 15 December 2003
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This year the Government will spend $15.4 billion on Defence which amounts to 1.9% of GDP. Should we be spending more or less than this? The only way to know is to see what impact more or less spending would have on the capabilities of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and the military tasks they can undertake. Aft...
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Sinews of War: The Defence Budget in 2003 and How We Got There
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Tuesday, 19 August 2003
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The report, authored by Mark Thomson, explores the background to today's Defence funding crisis, and offers some proposals for how to improve things including deliver new capabilities on time, continue to improve Defence management and sort out the DCP and the strategic policy that underpins it.
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Danger and Opportunity: Australia and the North Korea Crisis
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Wednesday, 23 July 2003
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North Korea's nuclear weapons program has created an acute policy challenge for the international community. Australia has big interests in the crisis in North Korea, in the way it develops, and in the longer-term implications for the balance of power in the Western Pacific.
This report examines the cri...
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Keeping Australia Secure: What do you think it means....and how do we do it?
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Thursday, 17 July 2003
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What does the future hold for Australia in Asia and in the world? The events of 11 September in New York, and nearer to home more recently in Bali, have put security and terrorism into the headlines more than ever before. A glimpse of the future or just a phase? What are the real threats and what do we do about them...
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Our Failing Neighbour - Australia and the future of Solomon Islands
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Tuesday, 10 June 2003
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Solomon Islands, one of Australia's nearest neighbours, is a failing state. Over the past five years, a slow-burning political and security crisis has paralysed the country's capital, stifled its economy, disrupted government, discouraged aid donors, and inflicted suffering and hardship on its people.
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