By Mick Ryan*
Australian defence analysts have been calling for increased defence spending for some time. China’s increasingly aggressive behaviour, AUKUS funding pressures, and the growing cost of a smaller fleet of high-tech, high-cost equipment has added to the impetus for a defence budget that reaches well beyond the government’s aspirations to grow spending to 2.4% of GDP by 2033-34. (From: The Interpreter. The Lowy Institute.)
