Episode 4

In this episode: It’s worse than we thought. The government has confirmed that Defence expenditure will decline for the next two to three years – and there’s a lot of cutting and reprioritising to come. We also discuss the perverse financial incentive for the Department to balance its books by purchasing as much as possible from overseas rather than using Australian suppliers. We conclude with a summary of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore and the openness of many other countries when it comes to discussing national security. The current Australian obsession with secrecy is damaging the national interest and has to stop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.