The Australian Strategic Policy Institute presents a new edition of its ‘The Cost of Defence‘, covering the spending set out in the Albanese Government’s October budget.
The report’s author, ASPI Senior Analyst Dr Marcus Hellyer, noted that ‘the October defence budget continues the funding line the government inherited from its predecessor, so there’s been no significant change. But that funding line is still the same one that came out of the 2016 Defence White Paper when our strategic circumstances were very different.’
